Center Stage Design

Left a voicemail and got a call back an hour later. They do move furniture into / out of the house. They recommend leaving the furniture in until after inspection. Estimation is free. Cheryl came out and took some pictures and gave us a little feedback about which rooms would be best to stage. Ultimately we decided not to stage at all, but we would likely have gone with Center Stage Design if we had decided to stage the house.

I am a long-time real estate flipper and have consistently staged the properties I list for sale. I believe it helps sell the property more quickly and that I get a higher price than if I didn't stage them. This was confirmed for me with my two most recent properties. I listed one of them for sale right before Thanksgiving and one of them right after. I was concerned with the time of year that they would not sell until after the new year. In this HGTV world, I think people now expect homes to be staged. I met Gregg several years ago with another home staging company and I had been impressed with his work at that time. I inadvertently reconnected with him when I called Center Stage to get a quote. I can't say enough good things about how responsive they were in getting the quote to me and then getting the staging scheduled and completed. They worked graciously with my very short timeline and the staged homes both looked beautiful. I'm convinced the staging helped me sell both homes quickly, both of them within three weeks. I was thrilled. Gregg does a great job of communicating with you during the project and his eye for design is great. All I had to do was highlight the areas I wanted to emphasize and he did the rest. I highly recommend their home staging service.

Gregg's advice was invaluable in helping us get our home market-ready. He was able to see, and point out, areas that we would never have seen. He gave us clear, actionable advice on what to do to maximize our home's potential, and what flaws to correct before potential buyers ever saw it. His guidance helped us prioritize not only what to do, but how to spend our home improvement budget wisely. The changes he suggested would have worked for us even if we planned to stay in our home. The results speak for themselves- we had 3 offers on our home in the first 2 days on the market, and accepted a full-price offer. Gregg was responsive, punctual, and a pleasure to work with. The benefits of the service were well worth the cost we paid. I will call Gregg first for any future interior design needs.

Gregg's people skills are outstanding, so first he gets a feel for what your tastes and likes and dislikes are, then draws up a plan. He is an artist himself, so often sketches what he wants an area or focal point to look like, using what he has heard you say, and then sending the sketches. Gregg has a very gregarious and open style, taking no offense when you want to modify or change something in his plan, and makes the necessary changes. He is as comfortable when we said rather vaguely, "we want a simple look, contemporary, but with crisp and clean colors as he was when we wanted more specificity, i.e. "we want twigs and branches in every room, but no brown or tan colors." Gregg made our mantel "pop", our hallway inviting and helped assemble a number of pieces that we bought. We loved that he took items that meant something to us and worked them into the decor. For example, he took our children's art, my husband's arrowheads, and placemats from our trip to Peru and designed spaces for each of these. In the case of the Peruvian placements Gregg ended up creating a focal point in our family room on one of the main walls, folding and mounting them on seagrass with twine. We are asking Gregg to come back, yet a third time to help us do some holiday decorating in a couple of the interior spaces. We know that when the project is done, Gregg will be as excited about the changes that have been made as we are. He is outstanding!