If your home is historically significant, destroying the original features of your home is suicide. For example: Taking out original features: Installing modern, vinyl windows on a historic home, with no thought to maintaining the architectural integrity; Graphic courtesy of treehugger.com Painting over wood features When we moved into our 1895 Queen Anne Victorian, it had 115 years of paint on the front door. That was a crying shame, because underneath all that was a virgin redwood masterpiece. Here are some photos of the excavation process: Our house, before This was our door when we m ..read more

You only get one chance to make a first impression… I was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report about How to Feng Shui your Home to Sell. It inspired me to do my own blog post on the subject: Why is staging with Feng Shui so important? When people walk into a home for sale, they decide within 15 seconds whether they want to buy it. Using Feng Shui as a secret weapon in the competitive world of home staging, can bring a faster, more lucrative sale in a cooling real estate market. First Impressions: The Entrance! The front door is “how the world sees you” in Feng Shui terms. Obviously ..read more