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Your home is one of your largest investments.

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Staging offers a 198% return on investment

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Help Buyers see the Possibilities

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Innovative design, using what you already have.

When it’s time to sell, let Refreshing Innovations stage your house, creating inviting and styled spaces with your furnishings thus offering refreshment to you during the moving process.

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Why invest in home staging?

1. AMAZING LISTING PICTURES

What are Buyers reviewing from the comfort of their home…listing pictures.

What are they using to decide if a house will fit their needs…listing pictures.

Times have changed with the popularity of HGTV and Real Estate websites.  Buyers expect more.  They expect pictures of houses that are clean and decluttered, but even more, they want to see houses in tip-top shape that are neutral and styled, so they can imagine themselves living there.

In addition, only a small percentage of Buyers can actually visualize what they don’t see.  Staging suggests how one might use a room and gives the Buyer an overall idea of what furniture fits.  You want listing pictures that clarify, not keep the Buyers guessing.

So what does home staging offer…AMAZING LISTING PICTURES.

2. BENEFITS TO SELL

The psychology fo selling tells us that Buyers most often make decisions based on emotional connections.  People buy a home because they “fall in love” with it.

The placement of furniture and accessories through home staging draws people into the rooms and directs their eye to the best features of the home.  The staging vignettes set up in specific rooms take the Buyer a step further.  An updated kitchen is a great feature, but staging helps the Buyer imagine cooking a fabulous meal or entertaining friends in the updated kitchen…BENEFITS TO SELL.

3. ADDED VALUE

Besides the value of helping get your house SOLD, staging increases perceived value for both potential Buyers and Appraisers.  When compared to non-staged homes, staged homes are more likely to receive full-price offers, and some even above asking price…ADDED VALUE.

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Susan’s redesign suggestion to put the couch on an angle made our family room so open and welcoming. I love it!

Susan Q.

Susan used the curtain fabric as a starting point for choosing the paint color which made that decision so much simpler.

Patty B.

She often used what we had on hand, but changed the layout or purpose. Most importantly, she is nonjudgmental and supportive.

Virginia D.
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Services

Home Staging

Refreshing Innovations can do as much or as little as you desire.  With consultations a report is prepared with all the action steps for the homeowner to fully stage their own house making it neutral and inviting.  With hands-on staging, Refreshing Innovations brings in a team to move furniture accessorize and make the house spacious and appealing to the Buyer’s eye.  In each case, the Seller’s furnishings are incorporated as much as possible.

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Redesign

This is for the homeowner who wants a fresh look for their house without buying all new furniture and accessories. After visiting your home, Refreshing Innovations offers suggestions and works with the homeowner to rearrange furniture and accessories to create a new and comfortable living arrangement with a focus on design, light and flow.

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Staging to Live

At times it can be difficult for a new homeowner to determine how their furniture will fit into the rooms of their new home.  Refreshing Innovations can set up your home in a way that creates the best flow.  This service makes the moving process less stressful while providing a designer look.

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Paint Color Consultation

Having trouble picking paint colors that work best for your rooms?  Refreshing Innovations can visit your home and offer suggestions to make your paint and decor work together.

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MyStory

Susan-Print-photoSusan Kirk has always had a passion and talent for design, as evidenced by frequently rearranging her room as a youth, followed by ongling design requests from friends, family and community groups.  Coupled with this is her deep concern for people and a desire to refresh them as they move through stressful life situations.

This made Susan a natural Home Stager when she open the doors of Refreshing Innovations, Home Staging and Redesign.  Susan offers innovative design to help homeowners prepare their house for sale, using what they already have.

She is an ASP (Accredited Staging Professional) serving MD, VA and DC and also a member of IAHSP (International Association of Home Staging Professionals).

Susan studied Business and Communications as Hope College in Holland MI, later obtaining a Masters degree in College Student Development from the University of Maryland, College Park.  Susan has had a wide range of experience from working at a Promotions Agency in Chicago to the UMCP Career Center, all the while using creativity and easing the process for people as they move into their next phase of life.

Susan’s superb sense of space, keen eye for color and passion for design, along with her willingness to invest time in both you and your home make Refreshing Innovations a clear choice for staging to help your home sell faster and for more money!

MISSION STATMENT:

My mission with home staging is to help properties sell faster and for more money.  I will accomplish this using creativity, space planning, proven home staging techniques and the homeowners’ belongings as much as possible.  Through this service, I will imitate Christ by employing the creative gifts He has given me and by working with clients in a manner, which reflects integrity and a genuine caring for them.

Before & After

Before After

This master bedroom is a wash of white and does not draw the Buyer in to check out other features of the room.

Before After

This cold, vacant bedroom encourages Buyers to focus on the paint job and carpet wear.

 

With a bed and accessories in place, the Buyer gains perspective of the size of the room and experiences its warmth and charm.

Before After

This vacant room does not add value to the home as it encourages a potential Buyer to walk right on by.

 

 

Using only what the homeowner already had, packing boxes create a bed, sticks from outside  become artwork and a rust sheet gathered in the middle creates a headboard.  A room used for storage by the homeowner now becomes a 4th bedroom to a Buyer.

Before After

This study was a great selling feature but did not invite much productivity.

 

 

After removing the personal items, additional accessories were added to highlight the built-in shelves and the rug was placed diagonally to invite Buyers into this bonus room.

Before After

This master bedroom did not invite Buyers to envision resting and relaxing.

 

 

To change this we painted the walls a soft color and added a lamp, greens, drapes as well as a comforter  found hanging in the closet, providing Buyers a welcome retreat.

Before After

This lower level room contained a mishmash of personal photos and a homemade fireplace which could not stay if the room was to appeal to many Buyers.

 

 

Keeping the black chair, pictures and a lamp were added from an upstairs bedroom paired with the ottoman found in another spare room. Now the room is clean, clutter free and has a purpose.

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