Congraz Jan!
Dear One Two Six,
We appreciate your talents in making my brother’s old home sparkle! 240 people went thru the (first) open house over two days and we received 5 bids, four above asking.
Jan (home owner, Mountain View)
Congraz Jan and happy Thanksgiving!
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Candid Home – Just in Time for the Holidays
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Shame on us for not posting anything here for so long, we are letting the Twitter tool to do all the hard work posting our Tweets summaries week after week.
Well, we have been quite busy, staging, designing and putting together a brand new site: CandidHome.com!! Yes, we have added a brand name furnishing retail business to our services. Our goal is to offer great products at low internet price but with comprehensive retail service. There are already over 2000 items on the site, and we are adding more constantly! Updating the site with new items is a time consuming task, so please visit us often.
Unlike other furniture retailers who’d charge you $75 just to drop off the bulky sofa you order on your driveway, our experienced movers will deliver it into your home, set it down easy at the spot you want, and we’ll do this for only $3/mile, even FREE if your order is over $1000 and live within 10 miles from us. Too many choices, not sure what to get for your living room? Don’t forget, we have been staging for over 10 years, let us help you to design the perfect place you call home! Talk to us at 650.425.7724
CandidHome.com Screenshot
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Vanity Award
We received an email from the US Commerce Association a week ago, notifying us that they’ve chosen One Two Six Design for the “Best of Palo Alto Award” in Home Design & Planning Services category.
One Two Six Design, Best of Palo Alto Award
Woohoo~~!! Yippeeee~~!! (for the next 5 mins)
Finally when the excitement subdued, and calmness settled back in, we realized… wait a minute, “Best of Palo Alto”? But… we moved from Palo Alto to the present Mountain View location more than 5 years ago. US Commerce Association? Who are these people?
Intrigued, we followed the link provided in the email, the web site open with instruction on how to obtain the award plaque, for a fee… Something didn’t feel right, if someone really want to give us an award, shouldn’t they give us the plaque for free?
Have to say, these people have came up with a very creative way to grab your money, hats off to them. In the world that’s full of spam mails, at least US Commerce Association’s spam comes with a vanity award.
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Picture Perfect
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Picture > 1000 Words?
Here is what one of our clients had to say:
Thank you Vivian,
Your photographer is amazing – he makes this old house become new!!
It is so clear, crispy and freshen!!I will have to use the team of you and Victor for the other not so perfect listings :-0)
I understand that my request gave you and Victor more works – but it is the BEST reference evidence when I needs to recommend you to my other clients – thanks again!
Well done Victor! (www.victorlinphoto.com)
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Exploding June
Real estate is an interesting animal, it has its own mood swings and can be affected by just about everything; economy, employment, weather, location, demographics, even local school schedules and so many more…
When it comes to timing or evaluating the real estate market, I will leave that to the Realtors and other experts to dissect and analyze, from my “Stager’s” point of view, we see the demand of staging goes up and down in respond to many factors; in the uneasy economy of today, the demand for our service actually picked up quite a bit, and as people get ready for the holidays like the Memorial Day we just had, the demand of staging falls sharply; and when K-12 schools goes on break, having kids hanging around at home definitely alter the parents’ plans on putting the house on the market.
Perhaps someone out there can help enlighten me, how come after a relatively flat May, we are seeing a huge spike for staging in June? We had 6 staging appoints yesterday, 3 today and 3 more tomorrow, all want to be staged in early June. What’s going on? Spring and summer have always been good month for the staging business, but such drastic difference between May/June is a bit unusual…
Curious about the market, and very happy to work on all those new projects.
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Curb Appeal on Your Lap
“Curb Appeal” is a very freely used term in real estate; HGTV, realtors, stagers, landscapers, colleagues, even your plumber might have given you a tip or two on how to improve your curb appeals, it is all about the first impression your house give out to its visitors.
However, keep in mind, doesn’t matter how great your curb appeal is, the first impression doesn’t really start at the curb! Shoooock!! instead, it started miles away, on the monitors of your potential buyers. Especially in a buyers’ market of today, your house need to literally “pop” out of the hundreds of MLS listings so the buyers can be intrigued enough to see and sense the real curb appeal…
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Paris Hilton to Staging
What are the similarities between the follow set of photos?
Well, each of these 5 sets of photos are really showing the same stuff: burger, gown, celebrity, dining and family room, respectively; the difference is really how the subject was presented.
If the burger company can spend who-knows-how-many-$$$$ for Paris Hilton to sizzle up their burger, shouldn’t you do something to properly showcase your home? Remember, presentation is everything, you are not only selling a home, but a lifestyle!!
De-cluttering, cleaning, painting, staging and photographing, we are here to help!
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Nice Words
I meant to post this a month ago, finally got around to do it today.
This nice note was mailed to us by the owners of a Los Altos home we staged back in March. We are always very appreciative of our clients who spend the time to send us testimonials. It puts smiles on the faces of our entire team!
Before the staging
After the staging
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Sold! Don’t You Just Love It?
Last two weeks we were crazy busy with staging, this week, we’ll be crazy busy with de-staging on top of staging.
Smile, more properties are selling
- Pacchetti Way, Mountain View (<60 days)
- Connemara, Pacifica (<1 month!)
- Gail Ave, Sunnyvale (<1 month!)
- Hidden Hills, Napa (1 WEEK!!)
- Alger Dr. Palo Alto (<1 month!)
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Staged Home Under Siege?
Watching the FOX 10 o’clock news, and it is reporting a growing number of burglaries occurring at vacant staged homes. Apparently, criminals use online tools, virtual tours and even open houses to research and target staged homes, then break in to steal the expensive furnishings and accessories. 
Time is tough, thieves are also getting creative.
Hope we’ll be spared from such mishaps, and hope no home owners will have to go through such nightmare, selling a home is already stressful enough…
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47, 129185, $81,227,075
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Numbers tell stories…
There are currently 47 properties on the market staged by us, totaling 129,185 sq ft, with the combined listing price of $81,227,075.
Although this hasn’t broken our record yet, we are getting close.
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A Little Update
Haven’t updated this blog in two weeks, if it wasn’t for the automatic Twitter digest, this page would have been static for the past half month! What a shame, as we have done a lot of exciting projects in March!!
2009 has been fast paced, and March has been especially exciting! We worked on brand new construction on a historical lot in Los Altos, new homes in Pacifica with great views of the ocean, fantastic condos in Palo Alto, and huge mansion in the hills of Saratoga… all these and many other memorable projects all throughout the Bay Area!
I spent few hours to pull out and organized some photos for these projects, and used them to updated our main site’s front page, the Before & After section, as well as the Portfolio section of this blog. I just love looking at the before & after photos, the transformation is always amusing to me! I need to put up more of them on our site…
Okay, that’s it for now, just wanted to write a quick update. It is going to be another busy week ahead, we just got the words over the weekend that few more properties (we staged) are sold! Love hearing these great news!!
Happy Monday everyone!
Before
After
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Sold! Throughout the Bay Area!
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We are very happy to hear the news of the houses we staged throughout the Bay Area are selling!
- Camino Al Lago, Atherton (this was staged for rental, rented!)
- Port Dr., San Mateo (sold in <60 days)
- Hope St., Mountain View (sold & closed in 60 days)
- Hidden Hills, Napa (sold & closed in 30 days!)
- Deauville Park, Fremont (sold & closed in 30 days!)
- Vaquero, Mountain View (sold in first weekend!)
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Staging Diary: Clean Lined Eichler
We staged an Eichler in Palo Alto yesterday, it was a partial staging where we worked with some of the owner’s existing furnishings and add our own to make it ready for open house. Personally, I love Eichler homes, love its clean lines, the floor to ceiling windows, the abundant lighting and love its openness. The last thing we wanted to do is to crowd the house with furniture and accessories, the idea was to put just enough to highlight the architectural greatness, keep it simple, and keep it refreshing.
It was exciting to work on this project, and we get to use a new set of gorgeous contemporary dining chairs for the very first time!
Anyways, we really enjoyed this project and got very positive feedbacks from the Realtor and the owner!
The house looks GREAT! You/staging company did a wonderful job keeping it modern, and bringing in just the right items to enhance the house.
Thank you so much,
Sheryl
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Sold! More & More…
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Our Daily Tweets (2009-02-20)
- @cindeelean nope… iPhone doesn’t support Flash… wish it did… in reply to cindeelean #
- Stager’s Tip: Magic Eraser by Mr. Clean, it does wonders on removing marks/scratches from your wall! #
- @REBayarea thank you!! They’re wonderful ppl, hope they can find a home soon. They like Atrium style Eichers, I saw 3 in Sunnyvale on MLS. in reply to REBayarea #
- @REBayarea btw Andreas contacted me. Looking forward to meet him. Thank u very much for the referral!! in reply to REBayarea #
- Santa Clara county median home price dropped 37% since last yr!! #
- @StageToSell u poor thing. Give Comcast a try, their biz phone/Internet is only ~$120. Web based control on fwd, vm… Love it in reply to StageToSell #
- Squeezing one more project in before call it a week. #
- Running between office and projects in Palo Alto & Redeood City #
- What a week! Now going to work on getting that yogurt!! #