Laurelhurst Part II

This is a wonderful and very livable home. 4 bedrooms on the main floor, living, dining, kitchen, nook upstairs and a room+ at the very top.

Photos by Danielle for Open House LLC.

Laurelhurst Staging

 It's odd what spaces speak to you over others. We all liked the space at the top of the stairs where we set up a bar for entertaining. Ready to move to the little eagles nest for drinks, sunshine and a view.

 When packing up at the warehouse we tried to go for a look we called "seaside contemporary". It got some giggles going and some direction.

 And what would we do without Danielle? She has to listen to the sisters going back and forth making decisions-not a task I would like.

Part 2 tomorrow will be the bedrooms and the media room.

Revisited

I needed to be taken to a far away land for a short while so I reread A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle. (sigh)...I think it made me a bit more restless. Wonderful easy read.

Seattle Graffiti

I sure liked this gritty looking building and the graffiti kind of helps it. The arch of color over the door on the Juliet blacony fire escape looks cool. We came across this building in the alley of a downtown staging job.

Visit Little Brown Pen to see who else was thrilled to stumble on some grafiti here.

The Paris Wife

Add to your reading list The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. It's a 10!

Staging-Laurelhurst

 Can't wait to use this couch again. It has a matching chair and they have never been at the same job so we want to make that happen soon.

Sister Ex had to spray paint the sculpture so it would work. Not bad...

The pretty black and white pillow will most likely be coming to reside at my home. We have a few more in the warehouse which will be a fun change in my living room.

100th post on Staging!!

It's kind of a celebration around here with 100 stories and photos on our staging work. I mentioned it to Sister Ex and we began to laugh over the funny and not so funny things that have happened over the years.

We remember: 

• Our first job made us exactly $17.00 (before tax)
• Driving our own truck and loading our own furniture
• Beginning in a garage
• Moving to a vacant house
• On to our first (run down) warehouse
• And now a move to a large clean professional warehouse
• Almost shearing the top off the truck under a bridge (FYI: know your height restrictions)
• Naming furniture after our clients

We remember: 

• Driving down the freeway with the back door of the truck open (rookies)
• Telling the owners that our guys were on break (we didn't have any guys)
• Hanging a huge heavy mirror in front of the agent and tumbling to the ground mirror, bodies and all. (I remember looking at Sister and seeing her cute hat askew on her head)...and laughing.
• Carrying furniture and one of us inevitably starts laughing so we have to stop and start again
• Renaming unkind clients...
• Having half of our furniture stolen from a job
• Having our furniture packed by the door ready to be stolen
• Centering a truck (which means we almost rolled it over and had to bribe someone to rescue us)
• Bringing our sick kids to work
• Loading out a job and finding a Polly Pocket in the shower where our kids were playing.

We laugh at:

• Mean clients
• Our "glamorous" job
• Arriving at the project without a couch and chairs
• Each other
• Sister Ex coming around the corner on 2 wheels
• Firing Danielle over and over (she's weary of it but we always get a laugh) 
• Putting holes in our clothing in the same spot every time

Shopping & Laughing

Amazing properties

Working vacation

It's not all work...

Shopping

Tumbling Down

Staging-Roosevelt

Even short sales need some love and staging. This is a cute wee cottage that took us 30 minutes to stage once the goods were off loaded.