On the surface, my work is about image and presentation. It’s about shopping sprees to buy staging furniture and accessories that will help my clients benefit from a quick sale. It’s about consciously creating an ideal image of the properties that I’m working on. Skeptics would even say it’s manipulation and trickery.
 
But underneath, my staging work is about more.
 
It’s about people and their hopes and dreams. It’s about relationships. If I want to get totally sentimental about it (the holiday season does that to me), it’s about love at its core. Because, to me, homes are where love lives.
 
And at this time of the year, when the holidays often get minimized to a focus on the pressure to buy, buy, buy, it’s important to remember that it’s also about more.
 
Just like in Seuss’ story:
 
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”
 
To all my clients and colleagues who I have had the extreme honour and pleasure of working with over the past year (and sometimes more), I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your confidence in me and the Set Your Stage team.
 
Know that my heart is always in my work and I do it to make a difference for you, your family… and your buyers’ families.