The DECO-Zone

Kitchen Makeover Made Easy

It is amazing how removing upper cabinets over an old counter top can open up those older Kitchens.

Design By DesAnn BEFORE Staging improvements

Whenever possible, and the budget allows, remove those upper cabinets to create a newer look of an open Kitchen.

Removing these cabinets does not usually involve any structural changes. Open the cabinet doors and look up. They are usually attached to the ceiling with screws.

When we are competing to sell and our competition is new construction with an open floor plan, we need to have our Kitchen looking updated. This is a budget friendly way of taking an old Kitchen and having it appear much larger.

You will notice that we added a new Granite counter top, new floors, lighting and hardware. We kept the rest of the cabinets but added a fresh coat of crisp White paint.

Design By DesAnn AFTER Staging Broida

The seller, Bob Broida, told me it was the best $10,000.00 investment he had ever made. The house sold in ONE DAY, to the first person who saw it. We replaced all the carpeting, put in new counter tops, Kitchen floor, added new lighting through out and we were also hired to Stage this vacant with leased furniture.

It is always enjoyable to hear “giddy” realtors or sellers calling me to say…”WOW, the house SOLD….thank you, thank you, thank you”.

I LOVE my profession!

Mirror Mirror on the Wall; It’s Decorator Magic!

Before

For the past few months, I’ve been working with a client who has been a sheer delight…  Ready for change and happy to be “finally” moving forward with her decorating plans, the very first project was an interior redesign of her living room. As you can see from the before photograph, this room included a lovely fireplace with a not so lovely fixed mirror, courtesy of the builder.

Now, I can totally appreciate a well placed mirror, but as is often the case, it usually ends up reflecting the one thing that you least want to see, i.e., the ceiling, a ceiling fan or the kitchen pots and pans.  Once the one day decorating makeover was finished, we simply painted the mirror. It’s true what they say about watching paint dry! While it took 5 coats of the wall color for maximum coverage, the end result is truly the fairest of them all.