How to create a mood of belonging

When Harmonizing Homes  approaches a staging job, we take it one step at a time. Feeling each space, making sure we are creating a mood/feeling. When people walk into a room, they should "feel" the space. We want the prospective buyers to have an emotional reaction to the spaces that we create. The emotion is a  state of mind deriving from a mood.  We create that mood of  belonging and love. For more information on this home click on the force group Keller Williams

Reference

Photography - Motion City Media

Listing Agent - Theresa Kuyl

Staging Company - Harmonizing Homes

New Jersey Premier Interior Design and Home Staging Company

What happens behind sceen

    

 

Hello Friends,

Today it started out with measuring out my coffee into my coffee cup instead of my expresso maker…then, I closed my finger in the door as I was running out to yoga.. Not a good start. However it did get better…. At Harmonizing Homes we could be designing a house one day and/or staging a home for sale on another day….When I refer to WE – its Charles and I and we do everything from Social Networking, Book Keeping, Shopping, Drawing, Developing new concepts, meeting with clients, ordering memos and a lot of bantering through out the day to keep our sanity….
Here is the results of last weeks Home staging…photographs were taken by Motion City Media see information below.

After blasting our work on Social Media we finalized renderings for a presentation, shopped and planned for an upcoming December 4th event and announcement- more information to follow …

We headed out to Sailor’s Trading for some inspiration and shopping….Guess who was taking all the pictures….while someone else was shopping…. Details on location will be under references


Then we headed to a clients home in West Long Branch New Jersey….Super sweet couple who’s daughter is getting married early summer….so we are under a deadline to get everything done by then….. I just bought this great desk top computer that also works as a tablet ( Lenovo Yoga Home 900…..for demonstration purposes its amazing…We probably should have tested out prior to our demonstration….however we didn’t…..but we figured it out….Here is a sneak viewing of our presentation ….

That wraps  it up for this week in our design world…  Don’t forget save the date for our guests that have been harmonized December 4th from 6-9 pm…Great networking opportunities – Don’t forget your canned goods for Grandmother’s Cupboard!!!  PS… for those that will be attending we will be unavailing our January 15th kick off project….

References

Motion City Media Frank Zrinsky

Crossroads Reality – House is located on 7 Avon Court, Toms River NJ – Detail of Home

Rendering by Charles Messenger using Sketch up

Shopping at Sailors Trading

 

OUR NEW PRICING GUIDE

HARMONIZE HOMESOUR PRICING GUIDESince 2009 ~ Corinne Kaas~

Welcome Friends!

We are so very excited about finally being able to publish our our pricing guide… The guide is actually a book like document however for posting purposes we have attached a PDF for online viewing….This guide will also be available in print if you are interested.

We are also very excited to announce to announce that we are now doing kitchen and bathroom designs…We are partnering up with a local cabinet company located in Red Bank NJ….so keep us in mind for your next kitchen or bath transformation.  We have several lines and grades of cabinetry available to us.

So go ahead and click on the link below for a full pricing and service list…

Harmonizing Homes Price Guide (5)

Looking forward to helping you on your next project however big or small…

What does your garden look like?

By now in New Jersey our gardens are planted, the peony's have bloomed and the hydrangea's are making their debut...   

There is so much pleasure, reward and satisfaction in gardening....you really do not need much more than a container....some dirt, seeds...add  water and you have a little bit of natures beauty.  

This year many of us that live on the coast of New Jersey had extensive gardening due to the Storm Surge of Sandy...  We have hulled in new top soil, mulch and new shrubbery.  For the most part, the perennials that did not wash away came back harder then before....

Nothing is better than having a morning cup of coffee and walking through your yard checking out the new growth.  I hope this makes you smile.

You can stick to a certain color scheme 

a container wrapped with vines for a great center piece on a table by Harmonize Homes

add a variety of heights and colors for a focus point 

various colors and textures makes a garden interesting

What to do with the Pile Up? Be Ruthless!

Each folder is labeled

As a decorator and stylist.....you can only imagine the amount of magazines, catalogs and books I have accumulated...  It is virtually impossible to keep up with  it all...  A few years ago, I decided  to tear out the articles and pictures that I like best in each of the magazines and throw the remainder into the trash (recyclables) .

This folder contains all types of styles of bathrooms

A great cardboard box with a lid which can be hidden in a closet or stacked on a shelf

I found this to be a great way of keeping  and sharing ideas....When I visit with a client I will bring the entire folder for a specific room...let them go through the folder picking out photo's that they like... We then work on  ways to create the look they like at an affordable price... Its a great time saver...and  a great way of keeping organized....   Below is a link to Target where I bought my boxes.....

http://www.target.com/p/greenroom-recycled-file-box-with-hanging-files/-/A-13421700?reco=Rec|pdp|13421700|ClickCP|item_page.vertical_1&lnk=Rec|pdp|ClickCP|item_page.vertical_1Target


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