Services for the Western New York and Buffalo Area

Get National Staging and Decorating Expertise at Local Prices

The three phrases that best describe my Home Decorating and Home Staging services are:

• Versatile: You have many levels of service to choose from
• Inexpensive: You don’t need to purchase furnishings to make your home beautiful.
• Customized: You will have plans designed just for your style and your home.

Plans for Do-It-Yourself Decorating

Get expert advice to prevent costly and time-consuming mistakes. The Home Stylist will answer your decorating questions or give you style suggestions for one room or the entire house. It is all up to you. This is one of our most popular services! Some examples of what the do-it-yourself decorating consultations can help you with:

• Choosing a color palette for your new home
• Getting a second opinion of the ideas you have gathered
• Developing a decorating plan to implement as your time and money permits
• Selecting great accessories to add to your decor.

Do-it yourself consultation: $79 per generous hour. Call (716) 912-1581 for an appointment today. Or use the contact us page.

Home Staging and Real Estate Readiness

Staging is for any house and any budget. The Home Stylist can help you get your house ready to be SOLD! Want statistics to prove that home staging works? Click for three different sources of staging data. Home staging services for buffalo Real estate readiness, also called home staging, works in steps. This process can be tailored to fit your needs and budget but for the maximum results we highly recommend the three-step model. These steps are: The Home Stylist analyzes the house and develops a comprehensive home staging plan; homeowners follow recommendations; The Home Stylist returns to strategically style, arrange decor, and fine tune. The end result is a house that has an irresistible first impression and appeals to the widest range of potential buyers. Average time for completion varies by house. Home Staging is critical in today’s competitive market.

• Home Staging Comprehensive Assessment: $149 one time fee for whole house
• On-Site work coordination (meet with painter, landscaper etc) $79 per hour (quarter hour minimum)
• Hands-on staging, accessorizing, and/or open house prep: $79 per hour. (one hour minimum)

Call (716) 912-1581 for an appointment. Or use the contact us page. The Home Stylist also stages vacant houses. Just as builder and model homes are never shown empty, neither should your house. This service is perfect for flippers and investors too. Vacant staging includes rental of great furniture and accessories for a polished dynamic look that gets that SOLD sign in the yard! Vacant staging quotes: Photos will be taken and scope of services with fees with be sent usually within 24 hours. No fee for quote. Julie Dana, The Home Stylist, is an Accredited Staging Professional and is fully insured. Professionalism is always top priority.

One Day Room Makeovers

A one-room makeover begins with a consultation to talk about your goals for the room. Next, the room is completely cleared. Each item of furniture is reintroduced into the room highlighting the focal points, followed by the lighting and accessories. With the homeowner’s permission, The Home Stylist may bring belongings from other rooms to complete the redesign. All accessories and artwork are re-positioned to accent the new placement of furniture. The result is a beautiful, professionally decorated room utilizing existing items. Occasionally a list may be given to you suggesting items you could add to the room to further enhance the style. Average time to complete a room is 3 to 5 hours. One-Room Makeover: $289 $50 deposit is due at initial consultation with the remaining due upon completion of room makeover.  Call (716) 912-1581 for an appointment. Or use the contact us page.

Shopping

The shopping service begins with a consultation. Together we decide what you need, what you want to spend and if you want me to shop for you or with you. You can specify internet or local stores. These shopping trips can be for any décor item you may need: furniture, carpeting, lamps and accessories, et cetera. Shopping Fee: $79 per hour.  

Fresh Start

This service focuses on celebrating life changes. Maybe you are getting married or remarried and can’t figure out how to merge two houses into one home, or maybe you are moving into a retirement community and you need to downsize your belongings – this service can help you edit and blend to create a beautiful home that reflects your new phase of life. A consultation will provide you with ideas and suggestions of what to do with your belongings and takes about 1 to 2 hours to complete. A Fresh Start Redesign service actually arranges the most appropriate furniture and accessories into your new home. Your home decor will be so beautifully blended you’ll think it was always this way. A redesign takes about 3 to 5 hours per room.

• Fresh Start Consultation: $149
• Fresh Start Redesign: $289 per room $50 deposit is due at initial consultation with the remaining fee due upon completion of service.

Gift Certificates

The Home Stylist Gift Certificates make a perfect Birthday, Holiday, Housewarming, or ?Just Because? present. Gift certificates are available for all services including home staging, room makeovers, online consultations and do-it-yourself decorating plans. It can be mailed so you can personally hand it to your loved one or it can be send directly to them. The Home Stylist always makes it special by placing the elegant certificate in a small pretty box – no tacky e-mail paper gift certificates here. Fine print: can be applied to any service, no cash back, expires one year from purchase date – don’t want them to procrastinate too much! Online Gift Certificate: Any amount  

Presentations

The Home Stylist can provide fun and interactive presentations for your group. These speaking engagements can be tailored to fit your needs and are usually 20 – 40 minutes in length which includes interior redesign demonstrations and hand outs. After speaking, most audiences love to have a questions/answer session. This is usually a great audience interaction time. The Home Stylist also speaks on location in stores that sell home décor items. During in-store presentations, audience members are asked to challenge The Home Stylist with décor items that they find hard to decorate with. Many topic titles are available but the most popular presentations are: 1. Seven Easy Ways To Style Your Home 2. Decorating For The Holidays 3. Accessorizing Your Home Presentations: Call for details

The Facts on Home Staging

Statistics from Stagedhomes.com The average time on the market a staged home is 11 days. The average time on the market for a non-staged homes is 22 days. The difference in a sale price of a staged home and a non-staged home was +6.9% Statistics from NAR The National Association of Realtors found that staged homes are on the market 13.9 days as opposed to 31 for non-staged homes. NAR statistics also indicate that staged homes sell for an average of 6.9 to 10% over listing price. Statistics from Coldwell Banker When Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Los Altos, Calif., looked at nearly 2,800 properties in eight U.S. cities in 2004, they found that the staged homes, on average, sold in half the time that the non-staged homes did. The sellers with staged homes ended up with 6.3% more than their asking price, on average, while sellers with non-staged homes sold for 1.6% more than the asking price.