Michelle King's (homeharmony-michelle) Blog

Another staging project where the house is dated and what we are allowed to do is limited.   I am not asking you to look at the difference between a regular camera and a wide angle lense. Just the presentability of the room. Such simple things can be done and what a difference it makes. We found ...

I love this story. I love how it shows what a difference a simple choice can make. First Lina made the decision to go to answer the email and then to rearrange her day to help her the rest of the day.   Something we could all choose to remember as we have choices to make.10 years in this business...

When you think of flipping you think of buying a property and fixing it up for resale. When Home Harmony is flipping it might well be the bedspread and curtains that get flipped. What is a girl to do when you have nothing to work with ? And too much blue ? Or too many patterns ? Don't be shy to l...

If you are anything like you me you love the photos and just want to see more and more so this post is short on words and long on photos. Before and After photos of our hands on redesign staging services. We have 5 hours and no budget to buy anything. Okay we psent 1.13$ on new plastic bathroom c...

This has been an amazingly beautiful weekend here in Montreal, Quebec. Warm, hot, sunny. A long weekend. The pool was opened and the kids were all swimming despite the 68f degree water.               Usually I would have been on active rain quite a bit however I just couldn't sit down and write. ...

  Bed placement is critical to how future home buyers perceive a home. As much as possible bedding should be rich, comfortable, clean and even luxurious. Apart from the bedding and even the furniture style the placement of the bed needs to be considered. Each of these examples show what a differe...

    Toolkits can be both physical like a toolkit you carry around as well as an aresnal of methods and experience. We all have both toolkits...Agents and stagers alike.          When we hire students (here we call them stagiere as they are working as part of an interior design or interior decorat...

LOVE this post by Jane Peters.   Three Little Words That Work!!(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales w...

  My dilema...we are about to stage a beautiful home. However the homeowner won't let us paint this stairwell. It might be hard to see but the paint is textured in a dijon sort of yellow with copper veins painted in by hand as well as the rest of the paint technique that was applied.  The challe...

The clients asked us for zen. We saw urban. We think we brought them both together.   Another fun project. I LOVE working on empty homes.  Starting from scratch can be more stressful. The inspiration isn't always as obvious. Having more constraints can sometimes make it easier.   Tell us what you...