UpStaged! Home Staging Colorado BEFORE & AFTERS

Not only do we at UpStaged! Home Staging help homeowners prepare their homes for the sales market,
we also work with home owners to re-design their homes,
using, in general, with what they already own.
Recently,
I have had a blast working with a great gal in our ward as we've been updating her house
just for the fun of it!
We started last week in her Master bedroom:

BEFORE:


What She Wanted:
New floors
New paint

Notice the built-in TV shelf--that was removed in our remodel, 

to make way for a flat-screen TV to be mounted on the wall.

What we've done so far:

 Teak floors!

How beautiful is that?!

 Paint color:

Okay this was tricky...what we wanted was Benjamin Moore's HAWTHORNE YELLOW--

we had that mixed up at our local SherwinWilliams' store ( BM's store was further than we wanted to drive) but it came out like banana yellow--screamin' banana yellow...yikes! (* I didn't get take a picture of that color. The color you see in all of these pics is the same.)
And did ya notice the missing TV shelf?  Yup, it's gone.

 So we took our bucket o' paint back to the SW store

and the gal there actually gave us a mix of hues to "play with" until we got the color just how we wanted it--

a nice buttery-slightly-golden-yellow. 

It worked and we got it exactly as we wanted!

It's a custom color, but we have enough of a sample that we can take it back to SW if we need to do touch-ups or whatever in the future.  We were tryin' to give our new color a name--I call it "Bisquick" because that's what it looked like when we were stirring it up in the bucket.  But the homeowner calls it "Dawn's color".  We began putting her room back together today
and she loves it!  YEA! I knew she would! Here's a peek of our progress:

We took out the bookcase. And the floor lamp. And that picture above the bed.  Although she'll be getting a larger metal artwork this week for over the bed--the one hanging is just something she already had and it's good for now, yeah?

 Now, remember, she had 99% of this stuff tucked away in her house...the silver trays, the crystal, the pottery, all of it.  We just poked around until we found stuff we loved...the tall crystal vase was from her bridal shower 3 decades ago--we found it, washed it and put some ranuculus and clear marbles in it.

 That  darling corner chair with the woven bottom

 was sitting in her garage!  

 We fetched this warm chocolate brown chair out of her great room that is hardly ever used, and fetched the table out of another bedroom. 

 This is not the best picture but another angle.  

And this was what we accomplished this week!  She has a list of things to get that will complete the look--lamps, a rug, a few more things for the high ledges above the walls...we'll get to that next week!

I really enjoyed this project so much.  The floors and painting were done by Doni Long @ Myles High Restoration, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Next week he is pulling up the carpet in the master bathroom and replacing it with travertine tiles we've chosen!  It's going to be gorgeous!

Tips for re-designing your space:
*For the most dramatic difference, put your money into the foundation of the room--
the floors.  If you like what you  have or don't have it in the budget to change it,
the next best change is PAINT!  Get the best quality paint you can afford.  Try some samples first,
on all of the walls to be sure it looks great on all the walls in the different times of day.
*Get a friend or family member that doesn't live in the house with you to give you ideas on what you might be able to re-purpose in your home.  Wash the crystal, shine the silver things you already own, bring out the things you once loved and see if they will work again.  *Note: this does not include broken things, worn out things, tole painted ducks, eucalyptus floral arrangements from the '80's.  Use classic items and you'll be fine.

Take Before and After pics--you'll be so glad you did!  And I'd love to see them!