All Staged And Ready To Go

Those who know of my.... eh umm....decorating "skills"....probably won't be surprised that our realtor had stagers come decorate our house to get it ready to sell. I try very hard but there's just something I lack when it comes to mixing aesthetics with functionality. Functionality usually wins! These two women did more in 3 hours than I have done in 6 months. They moved furniture between rooms, dug through closets to find decorations, and found pictures in the storage room I hadn't hung yet. It's a little less functional, but they did a wonderful job....all with stuff we already had!


OK, so they didn't do anything to the outside, but I think the last picture I posted of the outside was of a house with no porch. We DO have a front porch now!

Here's the front entrance. Check out my sofa table that I refinished. (It used to be the ever popular Honey Brown color.) The decorators thought I got it from Pottery Barn. One point for Robin!! Whoo-hoo!!!

This is the formal living room....what used to be Brinn's playroom. Looks much better, but a lot less fun!

Here's the great room. I had pretty much all the furniture shoved into this room before they spread it out. Had we stayed here, we were going to build a T.V. niche above the fireplace.

This is the formal dining room. Since we are not formal people we were using this as our office area.

Kitchen. Not much to change here!

Eating area.

This is the basement living room. We don't use it much - just to watch movies here and there.

Please help us pray that it sells quickly. Brinn has been through so much chaos and change in the last year and a half. We would like to give her some normalcy in her life!

P.S. For all you HGTV lovers out there: Shane said I should name this post "House Hunters" and say that Suzanne Wong stopped by. He even suggested I download the "House Hunters" music to it. And who says he wouldn't make an excellent blogger!?!?