Kates Home Staging and Interior Design Blog ~ Your Affordable Home Decorator!

After living in your home for several years, it becomes increasingly more difficult to notice those everyday items that need to be updated and your bathroom is no exception.  Depending on the size of your bathroom, it could be quite costly to renovate.  Why renovate when you can completely transf...

Home Staging is the process of highlighting a home's strengths while downplaying it's weaknesses, through techniques such as depersonalization, de-cluttering, cleaning, addressing maintenance issues, and implementing interior design principles. A typical home staging consultation will last about ...

A working environment within the home can be difficult Feng Shui, as the energy from this area can affect the entire house.  More Yang (work) energy is likely to gather in the home office area of the home because contact with the outside world will be the greatest in this room.   The home office ...

A working environment within the home can be difficult Feng Shui, as the energy from this area can affect the entire house.  More Yang (work) energy is likely to gather in the home office area of the home because contact with the outside world will be the greatest in this room.   The home office ...

A working environment within the home can be difficult Feng Shui, as the energy from this area can affect the entire house.  More Yang (work) energy is likely to gather in the home office area of the home because contact with the outside world will be the greatest in this room.   The home office ...

Interior redesign is a type of decorating that incorporates the home owner's unique personality and the room's function by trying to keep the design costs low by first utilizing what the home owner already owns.  An initial interior redesign interview and questionnaire is provided to all my desig...

As you enter a new home for another interior design or interior redesign, how does a designer find inspiration to transform the room?  What is the room does not have a redeeming arhitectural features to work with? What if the room has to be used as a walk through to get to the other side? Well, t...

The most buyer traffic will come through a home the first two weeks it is on the market than any other time period. No one gets a second chance to make a first impression and when you are talking about real estate, the only way to generate new interest in your home is to drop your price to attrac...

Installing crown molding is an architectural upgrade that can give a plain wall interest, depth, and formality. The choices of crown molding could be staggering for the typical home owner and can be purchased in a variety of material from plaster, pine, mahogany, to primed mdf. The size of the mo...

By spending $100 or less, a home owner could improve their home and make their surroundings more enjoyable.  Since it is winter and colder outside, this is the time of year when more people focus on staying home more and inside home updates. Here are a few ideas to get you started: 1. One thing m...