Cindy Garruba's (cindy722) Blog

Bookcases can be great focal points and design opportunities in your home, but cluttered bookcases are just distractions.  Take a look at your bookcases in your home.  Are they in the right room, are they positioned well.  What do you have in them?  Do you need that much stuff? When I am staging ...

Do You Need Help to Organize Your Home? •1.      Can you set your table without clearing it off first? •2.      Can you find your favorite blouse in your closet right away? •3.      Are your dirty clothes all in the hamper? •4.      Are your kitchen cabinets organized, can you find what you are ...

This cottage is lovely and the view out the sliding glass doors is a beautiful view of boats on an inlet.  This is the best feature of the property, in my opinion.  When I walked into the house for the first time the view was blocked by a couch!! The room was cluttered and out of date.  Paint, ne...

Several homes I have staged have baby grand pianos.  They are usually beautiful, but they can be overwhelming in some spaces.  If a room is big, the piano needs to be pulled out from the wall, staged as a main focal piece.  In this room I hung a violin the homeowner had tucked in a corner, pulled...

This client's home is a country cottage overlooking an inlet on a bay.  Very cute, but not completely functional.  The refrigerator was right next to the bathroom, openning up the wrong way.  Limited counterspace needed to be fixed, too.  I found an under the counter refrigerator in the garage, h...

Buyers need to remember a space, white boring small bathrooms are not the answer.  Color can make a room pop!  I had to do something in this forgettable guest bathroom that is very small and was painted white with no real design.  I taped off horizontal stripes and painted every other one green....

Staging budgets need create reuse of furniture that your clients already own.  Maybe you will add a piece or two, but favorite pieces can often be easily updated with some simple fixes.  I took this floral chair; it had busy small print that needed to be neutralized and modernized.  I added a be...

This blog is by Maureen Bray and I think it is a perfect explanation for home sellers!  If you need help in Suffolk County, Long Island, please contact North Fork Home Staging, we are here for you!! It happens to the best of us ... we get a little older, and signs of age start to creep up slowly ...

  •1.      Formulate a plan for de-cluttering and organizing.  •2.      Set a date to begin and complete the task and stick to it! •3.      Sort items into 4 categories: keep, pass on to family or friends, sell, toss. •4.      Take pictures of items you want to pass on or sell. •5.      Email pic...

September always feels like the start of the year to me.  After the summer, whether you have kids or not, September does seem like the start of the regular routine.  There is something about seeing all the back to school supplies in the stores that makes me start to think about cleaning my office...