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“You never get a second chance at a first impression.” We’ve all heard this expression before. And now, while you are preparing your house to sell, it should not be far from your mind.

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FREE HOME STAGING.....

....to all our clients who list with us. So what exactly does that mean? It means that I will use my training as a professional home stager to do a thorough evaluation of your home and identify and showcase its best features, giving your home an advantage over others on the market.

Visit here to find tips on staging your home to sell, or to stay, as well as new trends in paint colours and tips on all sorts of topics in the world of interior decorating.

Wendy Brassard, ISRP

Innersense Interior Redesign & Home Staging

Wendy Wiebe Brassard, ISRP

Wendy, a former Realtor herself, has over 20 years experience in superior customer service and administration. Prior to making her decision to join with me to create our team Wendy spent 10 years serving the community as a Constituency Assistant. It is there that she developed her excellent skills in communication and marketing techniques.

Throughout the years interior design and decorating has remained a passion and although she was already offering our clients sound home staging advice she wanted to ensure she was offering the very best service she could and embarked on receiving her ISRP (Interior Staging and Re Design Professional) designation.

The combination of these skills are put to work to give our client's every advantage when marketing thier homes.

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DECORATING TIPS

To Trend or not to Trend

Like the new trends but not sure how to incorporate them into your space? Read on.....

So the purples and metallics are really on trend but this doesn't mean you need to paint a room and replace your furniture. Actually, to really keep your space looking well pulled together you want to add trends in accessories, complementing what you already have invested a great deal of money into such as your furniture and flooring. A good example is wall paper. Try doing a guest bathroom entirely in a metallic damask paper or in one of the trend colours (bathrooms are small and easy to change around), toning it down with neutral towels and soaps and then frame that same paper in 3 matching frames and hang them in your living space. Bring in the metallic and damask colour in accessories such as pillow covers, vases and candle holders. Repetition throughout is what will keep it looking pulled together and keep to a plan. Choose one trendy colour and then a complement and stay with those throughout (don't overdo it with "matching". Pick accessories with the same colours or close to them, either lighter or darker and choose the metallics in different shapes and items. In other words try not to put damask everywhere. Less is more). However, pay attention to those things that will not change such as your furniture. If you have a pattern in your furniture look to the colours in the pattern and pull from that. Remember, things don't have to match, they need to go. Go ahead and mix your patterns but scale matters so if you have a small floral print on your sofa another small floral print is just going to compete and cause confusion. Try a larger graphic print that has the same colours as the floral (stripes, plaids etc). To bring floral into the "here and now", look for really large scale solid colour patterns (Ikea is great for this) along side a small multi coloured floral can help modern it up. Add to that a solid or stripes and viola!

Most of all have fun. If you love it, its perfect!!!

Still not sure? Get advice. I provide in home consultations that will give you the tools you need to feel confident in your decorating for today and always.

Wendy

innersensehome@live.com

Below is the Better Homes and Gardens web site - one of my faves - where you can experiment with colours, learn whats new and just have fun!

Easy Breezy Summer Tme Decorating

Want to bring summer indoors without a total renovation? Decorating for the summer is as easy as the season. Look around your garden for colours that inspire you then find those in pillow covers and accent cushions. Look for floral or seaside type patterns in table runners or table cloths. Nothing says summer like a white table cloth adorned with glass and flowers!!! Add decorative napkins and away you go. Not a flower person? No problem, look at some of the shrubs and trees around you. Greenery is just as summery as flowers and adds a more contemporary look. One large leaf in a clear vase says alot. Fill a large clear vase with lemons or green apples. Submerge colourful silk daisies in a vase of water and put in a sunny window or end table. Take out those sea shells you collected and pile them in a coloured or clear glass bowl. Place on a stack of magazines on your coffee table beside an outdoor lantern and you'll feel like your at the cabin.

For the more adventerous, try painting a feature wall - perhaps the fireplace wall - a light and breezy summer colour. To keep everything looking pulled together keep in mind your large items and spaces. Flooring, ceiling and furniture will determine what your summer accent colours will be. For example, if you have darker browns look at light greens and teals, robin egg blues, bright oranges (dark orange will give you a Fall look so be carefull here) and of course pinks and lilacs. Choose two accent colours to work with. Be sure to repeat your colours throught your space - so if you have an open dining living room, try not to stop the colours where the room ends. Bring it in. To seperate the rooms a bit just switch the role each colour plays. If in your living room you have brown as your base and have chosen light green and lilac as your accents, make green more dominent with small splashes of lilac.. Then in the adjoining dining room reverse the role, making lilac more dominent with splashes of green. Throw in some white flowers or natrual arrangements of sticks and leaves and voila......Summer!!