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2010
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If Home Staging were an Olympic Sport, it certainly would include elements of speed, precision and artistic ability! As I've been enjoying snippets of the games -- and have fond memories of when the Winter Olympics were in Calgary, Alberta in 1988 -- it has motivated me to look at the tasks in a ...
02/20/2010
In a recent home staging I did in South West Calgary, my challenge was to work with a dated (50's) kitchen in a home that had been mostly updated elsewhere. The house was vacant except for the brown leather love seat in the living room, and a kitchen table set in the dining area. The house also n...
02/19/2010
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When I do Pre-Market Home Selling Consultations as a Calgary, Alberta Home Stager, I often see -- and smell -- a variety of scented products throughout the home. There's the plug-in variety, the spray variety, the stash-in-a-corner-and-please-absorb-the-smell-in-here variety. I often ask about th...
02/05/2010
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Just the other day a potential Home Staging client in Calgary, AB asked me about statistics. Thank you, Thomas, for giving us some more recent information! BTW, love the banana leaf chairs below! ;-) At last weekend's Real Estate Staging Association's National Conference (RESA), Showhomes releas...
02/03/2010
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If every home has a personality, so does every professional Home Stager. In a pre-market home selling consultation, most Home Stagers are likely to give fairly similar advice -- de-clutter, de-personalize, update and clean, clean, clean. In executing a Staging, the specifics of a plan are going t...
02/01/2010
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Deena Cottingham
Home Stager & Photographer
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I like creating discussion among other professionals in the real estate industry on various staging, photography and off-beat topics. I value the insight of others and the synergy we all benefit from when we collaborate--iron sharpens iron!
I also have a love for fitness, personal growth and my family.
