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February 2010 - The Red Issue

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From Drab to Fab!

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Issue 11, February 2010

Home Staging Articles of the Month

If your house is on the market, you’ll want to read these helpful articles to ensure you get top dollar for your property:

1. Curb Appeal - by Andy Capelluto, International School of Staging

2. Home Staging is Key to the Recovery of the Housing Market - the Earth Times

3. Staging Works Consistently, Even in a Down Market - by Nicole Wexler

4. Staging - Prepare Your Home to be Lived in by Someone Else - by Nicole Wexler

Remember that we reward our clients and friends for new client referrals!

Text Box: Answer: We recently guest wrote an article for the Artistic Sensations blog that deals with this very subject. Here it is in it’s entirety: Cheap and Cheerful Children’s Room Ideas When I was pregnant with my son, I decorated his nursery according to my tastes: I grew up in Africa and so I chose a motif involving African animals and a color scheme that was somewhat neutral (I didn’t know the gender of my baby) – yellows, greens and oranges. This wasn’t a bad choice at all, except that by the time my son was 9 months old, it was clear he couldn’t care less about African animals. All he cared about were rubber duckies. If only I had known, I lamented, what a wonderful duck-themed room I could have prepared. Thankfully, I didn’t rush out and do that, because about six months later his loyalties switched entirely to trains, and Thomas the Tank Engine in particular. The railway obsession has now lasted for about 3 years and my husband and I are heavily invested in Thomas & Friends. I gave in to the Thomas frenzy and redecorated his room when he moved from the crib to a toddler bed. I figured the Thomas bed was the best incentive for him to give up his beloved crib. The moral of this story is that it’s always a good idea to let children grow into their rooms. Create a fairly neutral canvas that you can later accessorize with whatever takes their fancy. Trust me, it can be a big money saver. Here are some other quick and inexpensive tricks to liven up a child’s room décor: Spray paint some children’s or doll’s chairs (they’re often seen in thrift stores) in bright colors. Mount them on the wall as unique shelves to display toys.

This month’s decoration interrogation:

Can you suggest some inexpensive decorating tips for children’s rooms?

Denise Flatley, Redmond

Top Ten Tips

Send us your photograph of room that needs a little decorating help; or a home that requires staging advice to make it more appealing to potential buyers.

If your photograph submission is chosen, we will provide you with a 10 point advice report on what you can do to improve the look of that room (or advice on curb appeal). In addition, we will send you a $10 Starbucks gift card!

Email your photograph to Nicole@TurquoiseDecor.com

The answer to the January Trivia Challenge was 1. (c) a turquoise

Find and connect with us here:

Text Box: Color Theory: Bold, Beautiful Red: we highly recommend following the entire series on the Casa Sugar Blog. We also love the Decor By Color series – take a look at Pop of Red for great product ideas in this strong color. The pages are updated often with new products so keep checking back. Also view our “Decorating with Red” Gallery on Flickr. Feel free to browse and comment! See our chosen examples of decorating with red. We put together our top picks for red pillows here. Last, but far from least, our favorite find of the month was Yael Falk’s unique home décor creations. Yael combines the ancient art of crochet with the modern medium of metal wires to create simply exquisite must-haves.

Before You Decorate, Interrogate!

Are you facing a decorating dilemma? Do you own something you’re not certain how to display effectively? Here’s your chance to get some free advice! AND, if we feature your decorating question in our next issue, we'll send you a $25 Target gift card.

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decoration interrogation!

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Highlights from February’s Theme: Red

As we mentioned above, our theme for 2010 is color. For the month of February, our theme was red. The following are highlights of the red theme we’ve been following on our blog this month.

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Spring has come early in the Pacific Northwest highlighting the promise of good things to come this year. Our theme for February was red and we’re continuing the color theme in March by highlighting all things green in the field of interiors and décor. Follow us in real time on our blog or catch this monthly digest of our activities, articles and more by signing up for our e-zine.

In this issue:

1. We’ve Been in the News Recently!

2. Highlights of February’s Red Theme

3. Home Staging Articles of the Month

4. Where to Find and Connect With Us

5. Decoration Interrogation

6. Send us your room pictures and win!

2010 is off to an exciting start for us!

We ended the month of January by attending the Friends of FSH Research FiSHing for a Cure Caribbean Nights Gala held at the Bellevue Hyatt's NEW Grand Ballroom with Auctioneer John Curley and Emcee David Rose.
It was a wonderful event and it was our privilege to support this great cause. Turquoise Décor donated a beautiful glass mosaic table to the auction.

In February, Nicole Wexler of Turquoise Décor received a double honor by being named one of Biznik’s Top Connectors in the USA AND the Real Estate Staging Association’s Stager of the Month!

And that’s not all! We were featured in the Redmond Reporter on February 26th.

We are also delighted to announce that our work has been featured in the latest edition of the FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Redesigner on the popular career website, FabJob.com, which has published guides on how to get started in more than 100 dream careers. The guide highlights the environmentally friendly aspect of this service, which helps people get more life out of their existing furniture and possessions.

Chances to win something this month include our Decoration Interrogation section below where we answer another reader’s decorating question - if your question is chosen, you could win a $25 Target gift card.

We have decided it’s time for a change - instead of a trivia challenge, we will now be offering our readers the opportunity to send us a photograph of a room they find challenging to decorate in our Top Ten Tips section. Readers may also submit photographs of homes that require staging advice to make them more appealing to potential buyers. If your photograph submission is chosen, we will provide you with a 10 point advice report on what you can do to improve the look of that room (or advice on curb appeal). In addition, we will send you a $10 Starbucks gift card.

We are active on many social and business networking sites, and we’re listed as a resource on many more. See the list on the right, and choose the forum on which you’d like to connect with/follow us.

Text Box: Customize a piece of furniture over and over again, by papering a motif over the drawers. In this example, I used an old shower curtain cut into pieces and secured it around the drawer with duct tape in a matching color so that it would stay yet still be removable later. Once the drawer is in place, the tape is invisible. Before you adhere the covering, remove the drawer pulls and replace them by piercing the paper at the right spot. For wall décor, purchase a set of inexpensive plastic children’s tableware in the desired theme and mount the plastic plate and bowl on the wall – the advantage here, is that the objects are light so if they should fall off, injuries are unlikely to result. Or, many themed bedding sets come with a flat sheet that goes unused by most children. Cut the sheet into sections and frame them or staple them over a canvas – and voila!

Text Box: These inexpensive DIY decorating ideas will take your child’s room from drab to fab!

If, after all of this, a little red ladybug hasn’t bitten you, stay tuned for next month’s theme: green.