OC Staging & Redesign

Description of Work: I hired him to do some decluttering.

Description of Work: We were putting our house up for sale and wanted it to look as good as possible- but we did not want to invest a great deal of money in redecorating and buying new furnishings. We wanted to make the best use of what we had. OC Staging was phenomenal! Martin Crowder came in and treated us and our furnishings in a gracious and respectful manner. We did not have Ethan Allen furniture, or expensive oriental rugs, or museum quality art, but Marty made us feel that our stuff was just fine (some of it was "great"!) He and his staff re-arranged our furnishings, rugs, pictures, lamps, and everything else and transformed our interior from "okay" to "Awesome!" He even brought in some of his own pictures, lamps, rugs, art, and decorator items from his own decorater inventory to enhance what we had. We did get some new lamps and a couple of inexpensive rugs (which we use at our new home). We were going to replace all the kitchen hardware ( cabinet knobs & handles) from brass to "nickel" for a more updated look. Each nickel handle cost about $9 each, and we needed 40 ! (40 x $9 = $360 !) (But Marty had a great idea to save money. He personally removed each cabinet handle and took all 40 of them to his home, where he spray painted each one to a beautiful nickel finish. Then he brought them all back and personally installed each and every one. The cost? About 2 cans of spray paint-- and NOT $ 360 ! We had a very dated built-in formica counter top in the dining room. It was "Harvest Gold". We never knew quite what to do with it, except maybe replace it with granite. Marty completely re-worked and re-painted the countertop with special chemicals& paint to transform it to a lovely cream color which blended perfectly with the built-in buffet and other built-in cabinetry. I did not know you could do anything with Harvest Gold Formica except rip it out before someone sees it ! We did re-paint some rooms so they looked fresh, but we had a great painter who did a wonderful job. When we had an "Open House", Marty came at 8:00 am on a Sunday to help us "tweak" the house to perfection. ( The Open House was at 1:00 pm). He even stopped to shop for us on the way over, bringing some nicer planters and a nicer lampshade, along with fresh flowers for the sunroom! The house looked amazing - I would not have thought to move the living room furniture to the sunroom - It looked so much better! We got a contract from an Open House visitor within 2 days and sold the house to them! Marty even had a cleaning person who came to help clean the house so everything sparkled. The house looked so much better, we wanted to live in it longer to enjoy it !!