Deb

Deb
In her element

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Something Big in Home Staging in Maryland and DC Metro Area From NYC RainCamp


Something big in Home Staging MD and DC Metro Area is just what I mean! I promise to take it UP a NOTCH!


I spent the day in NYC RainCamp, and I have gained a new feeling about what is going to happen. I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was given so much information to enable me to offer Staging tips to Realtors in Potomac and all of Montgomery County, MD as well as, all of DC Metro area. My blogging will gain new momentum. I am still coming down from the high.


I wrote my first blog about 2 weeks ago and it stated this could be the start of something big.
I had no idea how my blog will progress. I learned I didn't know a thing! I am so green; and not with envy...oh well, yes green with envy too. I only wish I could be half as good as the panel of bloggers chosen from the attendees right on the spot. Patricia Kennedy, Cindy Jones and Sheldon Neal(click here to see his blog post about NYC RainCamp with photos). It was so encouraging to hear how they are doing it.


Ben, Bob and Brad are so fantastic! I was working on 2 hours sleep and I didn't get the least bit tired all day. The adrenalin they were producing was sooo contagious! Vivian Gilbert and I were making it a round-trip day on Amtrak and we didn't stop talking or even need to sleep. I can't wait to be there at DC Rain Camp in May.

Looking forward to bringing Something Big in Home Staging in Maryland and DC Metro area for Realtors, Owners and Investors.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

In the beginning

The warehouses where my dream developed!My love of all things beautiful for home began in childhood and then to the Antiques world as an adult. Growing up in Washington County, Maryland beauty and antiques abound. Living a home which is now 150 years old and on the Potomac River, I just loved dreaming and reading my mom's House Beautiful.


In the beginning, I thought I was just a genius..."I thought of a new thing". Boy was I wrong! Who knew this lady out on the west coast was doing this for decades now. I was working for a fabulous company at different locations in the US. I thought that was the best thing I could ever be doing. Setting up vignettes of furniture in wholesale warehouses so that a buyer could invision the product in their home and take ownership. While I was doing the general management duties, I got joy and relaxation in the concept I had brought to the company. Take the furniture and accessories from the stacks and shelves and merchandise it! Wow...sales skyrocketed and the system was born for them. Time goes by and then my talents were expanded to real estate.


Well, I needed to help my daughter and son in law sell their condo in NJ. It sold to the first couple in the house and I thought I was going to be developing some great thing, yeh right!


While working as a Corporate General Manager for the wholesale homefurnishings company my days and nights were consumed with the business and warehouses. I loved it, so I just didn't know what was happening on HGTV. As a matter of fact, I didn't watch anything but CNN and a movie on TV.


Finally, when I left the company after finding the love of my life (more to come on him) I decided to be self-employed again. Lightbulb in the head here! "I will set up houses for sale". Searching the web, I found how late I really was. Well, I needed to be Accredited by this "lady", Barb Schwarz. The journey began and here I am today, beginning yet another new thing for me. Blogging! I will be back often to tell my stories. Get ready...they are sometimes side-splitting.