Day Project

My craigslist purchase-$2.50! My little Austin and I decided to have a day project and fix up this desk for a friend. With some sanding, paint, cleaning, knobs=new desk.

Your Little Nest Staging & Interior Design -My First Home Stage!

Home stage...what is that some have asked? It is where someone goes into a sellers house looks over every detail from holes in the walls, decor, organization, arrangement of furniture, clutter, and over all presentation of a home to show to buyers. My first goal is to use what the owner already has and depending on their budget I go shopping for a few items to help.
So here it is my first home. This family were so great to allow me to practice on their home. I started with a consultation meeting-I met with them, went room to room, took before pictures, and explained why I thought their house was not selling and tell them how we together can change it. Then after much homework on arrangements, purchasing a few items needed for the spaces, I went back and 8 1/2 hours of work we did it!
Lots of before and after photos and two tired women at the end of the day. Thank you to this awesome family! Lets pray they sell their house fast!

Bonus space

Never have a room that buyers wonder what it can be used for. This space is used as a play room but not everyone will have kids. By adding a small desk buyers can see this space as an office an extension of the family room. This desk was a steal! Bought it for $2.50 and repainted it.

Family room in basement

Check out all that space! All I did was remove the recliner from the room's entrance. By packing all the little things on the ledge you can't even notice the odd ledge there. Kept the smaller couch in the room too.

Living room

Rearranging the furniture and making decor simple shows buyers how big is the living room.

Kitchen

Things to do to a kitchen. Clear everything from the top of cabinets, remove things from refrigerator, also move everything on the floors that buyers might have to watch out for.
If appliances come with the house keep them very clean. Buyers will open refrigerator and ovens.

Place with space to eat

Dinning room: just by moving the table long ways gives more space to walk around the table and buyers can get to the glass doors to see the awesome country view.

Making it a master suite

I used a comforter they had stored in the closet, brighten the room up a bit. I sewed some pillows for the bed and added long curtains to make people's eyes notice the vaulted ceilings. Took out all the small furniture in the room so buyers can see the floor. The more floor they see the more space they can vision their belongings in the room.

Changing rooms

In this home the kid bedrooms needed switched. The bunk bed got moved to the larger room making the smallest room now with one bed seem bigger. Easy fix.

Your Little Nest Staging & Interior Design -My First Home Stage!

Home stage...what is that some have asked? It is where someone goes into a sellers house looks over every detail from holes in the walls, decor, organization, arrangement of furniture, clutter, and over all presentation of a home to show to buyers. My first goal is to use what the owner already has and depending on their budget I go shopping for a few items to help.
So here it is my first home. This family were so great to allow me to practice on their home. I started with a consultation meeting-I met with them, went room to room, took before pictures, and explained why I thought their house was not selling and tell them how we together can change it. Then after much homework on arrangements, purchasing a few items needed for the spaces, I went back and 8 1/2 hours of work we did it!
Lots of before and after photos and two tired women at the end of the day. Thank you to this awesome family! Lets pray they sell their house fast!

Starting Up

Life has changed a lot in a month. Moved across country, involved in a new church, new house, close to family, shopping is different, and much more. We are loving it here in PA! It is exciting to be used by God and see Him change peoples lives.
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to start my own business. It started out in High School as "Holy Grounds" coffee shop but when I went to Bible college I changed from "my" goals to "His" which sent me to Mexico and now to PA.
Now is the time I feel God is saying "GO FOR IT!" So this spring I will be starting Little Nest Staging and Interior Design.
What am I doing now...filling out paperwork to start interior design school this fall, get my needed paperwork to have a home business, work on marketing, getting practice staging homes on the market, and researching like crazy. It is such a fun time in my life! This has been a passion of mine for a long time and the best part is is that I can do it while being a stay at home mom and being involved in the ministry with Kevin.

homemade art and a memory of the past

So as we said our goodbyes in Mexico we spent the last day in the historic downtown. I always loved the detail to the doors of the buildings. I went crazy taking photos that day. When we got to Pa I had them printed at Walmart and framed them for our new home. I love it! Total cost $8!

livingroom done!

This is the room that has been the frustration for us. I wanted to get rid of the red from the last house so I got this cute fabric and went with the idea of birds, doors, twig, theme. I still want to find some old keys, door knobs, and add some more color. I am very much a simple decorator for my home and everything has to have a place. I also tend to go with twos for everything. I don't do this always in others homes.

shopping with $10

Here is my little corner. We have this big couch but I needed something for an accent. For the past week Austin and I have been going thift store shopping for fun. Here are my finds! $7 chair (I asked for a lower price, yes you can do that) and the painting for $3. The little storage box I have had since Kevin and I started dating. It is full of almost every note or card he has given me. My little love note box.

More kitchen

I love my kitchen. I am not the type of person that needs a huge kitchen and this one is perfect for us. To add some more storage Kevin added shelves next to stove and hung a shelf to hang our pots.

Kitchen

My sweet little kitchen. We are coffee crazy, so to personalize our home I add things that we love. It gives people a sense of who we are and what they like when they come into our home. There is always coffee in our house, special ordered from online.