Staging-Laurelhurst
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100th post on Staging!!
/It's kind of a celebration around here with 100 stories and photos on our staging work. I mentioned it to Sister Ex and we began to laugh over the funny and not so funny things that have happened over the years.
We remember:
- Our first job made us exactly $17.00 (before tax)
- Driving our own truck and loading our own furniture
- Beginning in a garage
- Moving to a vacant house
- On to our first (run down) warehouse
- And now a move to a large clean professional warehouse
- Almost shearing the top off the truck under a bridge (FYI: know your height restrictions)
- Naming furniture after our clients
We remember:
- Driving down the freeway with the back door of the truck open (rookies)
- Telling the owners that our guys were on break (we didn't have any guys)
- Hanging a huge heavy mirror in front of the agent and tumbling to the ground mirror, bodies and all. (I remember looking at Sister and seeing her cute hat askew on her head)...and laughing.
- Carrying furniture and one of us inevitably starts laughing so we have to stop and start again
- Renaming unkind clients...
- Having half of our furniture stolen from a job
- Having our furniture packed by the door ready to be stolen
- Centering a truck (which means we almost rolled it over and had to bribe someone to rescue us)
- Bringing our sick kids to work
- Loading out a job and finding a Polly Pocket in the shower where our kids were playing.
- Mean clients
- Our "glamorous" job
- Arriving at the project without a couch and chairs
- Each other
- Sister Ex coming around the corner on 2 wheels
- Firing Danielle over and over (she's weary of it but we always get a laugh)
- Putting holes in our clothing in the same spot every time
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| Shopping |
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| Tumbling Down |
Staging-Roosevelt
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Even short sales need some love and staging. This is a cute wee cottage that took us 30 minutes to stage once the goods were off loaded.
Madison Park Staging II
/This is the second half of the staging job. A quick shot of the living room again and on to hallway, office and bedrooms.
I love this pretty visual in the upstairs landing.
Office
Office
Glad this big job is behind us. It took a lot out of us or maybe that's the gloomy Seattle weather...
Madison Park Staging
/What a lovely old home we had an opportunity to stage. It was a huge job and will be brought to you in 2 posts with before and after photos. What would be even more telling is if I did a before and after of my Sister Extrodinaire. Fresh and lively to start- weary and wilted in the end.
Guest Blogger
/Here are some wonderful thoughts from my friend and talented P.R. girl from the Mod Columbian:
Lent is French for Slow
Today is a good day to read a poem, let someone merge into traffic, send a thank you note, count your blessings, hold your tongue, listen, see the buds on the trees, write a poem, unplug, overtip and ask for less, see what you can do to help.
St. Therese de Liseuix tells us "I am in God's hands." Don't disappoint him.
Kirkland Staging
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We only staged 1 level of the home. It had a media room, wine cellar, craft room, music room, garden room, come-out-of-the-pool-and-hang-your-suit-room,work-out room,guest room....outdoor fire, hot tub, swimming pool, boat launch, green house and more. How could a person get any work accomplished with all of that fun stuff? A fun job indeed!
Listing by Kim Dales of Windermere Real Estate.
Listing by Kim Dales of Windermere Real Estate.
Kirkland Waterfront
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This Kirkland job was right on the water. We watched a storm in the distance come slamming our way. It was so beautiful to witness. These photos show just some of the home's views.
Oh to live in such luxury. $4 million and it could be all mine. What you don't see is the pretty pool, the outdoor dining area and the gardens. Staging photos tomorrow...
Seussical Jr..
/Thank you Katie Franklin for taking on such a lofty production. Here are some photo highlights:
(All of the lines are from listening to so many rehearsals and may be inaccurate but you get the idea.)
...enough about Horton, let's talk about me!
The Wickersham Brothers
...and the young kangaroo in her pouch said....
...meee tooo
...were Whos here smaller than the eye can see...
...I have wings and I can fly...
...ha laughed a voice, ha laughed some other, ha ha ha laughed the Wickersham Brothers...
...biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool...
...get the pills and you can have frills...
...all for you... all for you ou ou...
...talkin' to a speck...talkin' to a speck..
...Notice me Horton feather by feather...
...remanded to the Nool asylum for the criminally insane....
...One think and you drive me right on to the stage...
...fasten your seat belt cause now things go wrong...
...where even a Grinch wouldn't dare to be totally mean...
The awesome stage crew. It would not be a success without them. Thank you.
