Kate Case ~ Kate's Home Staging ~ RESA ~ ASHSR ~ NJ NAR Affiliate

Kates Home Staging and Redesignis a locally owned business in Orange County, New York that offers comprehensive interior redesign services for your home or home office. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign also serves the Rockland County area of New York and the Passaic County area and Bergen County area of New Jersey, basically the lower Hudson Valley. We offer Home Staging, Real Estate Staging, Interior Redesign, Interior Decorating, Open House Staging, Vacant Home Staging, Home Transitions, Move-in Design Services, Home Decorating, Benjamin Moore Color Consultations, Organizational Services, Amazing Vendor Discounts, and Personal Shopping. We have a growing inventory of rentable accessories for your Vacant Home Staging to help make your home distinctive. We also offer 20-40% discounts at ProFloors to all our clients on carpets, tiles, and hardwood floors. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign creates custom house signs and window moldings, please contact us and we will email you some pictures of our work. We recently have been approved as a semi-custom window coverings reseller, contact us and we will bring all our fabrics and samples for our roman shades, cornices, valances, faux wood and aluminum blinds, and bamboo/woven shades. These window coverings have a custom look with out the designer price tag.

A window covering can really pull a room together.

In order to create the right first impression and to ensure the highest price possible from prospective home buyers, it is extremely important that your home looks extraordinary. That is why homeowners and Realtors use the experienced staging experts at Kate's Home Staging and Redesign. According to the Real Estate Staging Association (2007), an unstaged vacant home will sit on the market up to 131 days while a staged home will sell in 42 days. In other words, staged homes sell 68% faster than unstaged homes. Why take that chance? Kate's Home Staging and Redesign has been extensively trained at two school to prepare your homes for their first real estate open house. Kate works with Realtors and home sellers to help them prepare their homes to attract the largest buyer audience possible.

In this economy, there are three things that sell a home:

1.) Price

2.) Location

3.) Presentation

The presentation is where Kate's Home Staging and Redesign comes in.

Kate is a Certified Professional Home Stager and Redesigner, she became certified by Home Staging Resource (HSR). This is the longest and most comprehensive home staging certification program available today. She is also a member of the American Society of Home Stager and Redesigners. Kate has studied interior redesign at Spaces School of Interior Redesign and majored in Marketing at Fordham University and graduated with her Masters of Science Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. She was worked in corporate marketing, advertising, and project management for over twelve years and has been helping friends and family redesign their homes for the past several years. Kate is also a member of the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA). She is an affiliate member of the Passaic County Board of Realtors. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is a fully insured business through Travelers Insurance. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is a member of the Orange County Chamber of Commerce. We also just joined the Rockland County BNI Business Master networking group in October 2009. The value of networking is so important to the small business owner.

Kate enjoys meeting new people and helping them fall back in love with their homes. If you are selling your home, Kate can also help you stage your home to ensure you receive the best return on investment. By simple furniture arrangement, the addition of accent pieces and focal points, your home will be transformed from ordinary to extraordinary. A staged home will sell on average 6% - 10% higher than a home that was not staged. For a $200,000 home, you could make $10,000 more on your home sale while spending under $1,000 on home staging.

Kate staged a home in Wayne, New Jersey in December 2009 and it received an offer in one day, so her home staging techniques are exceptional.

At Kate's Home Staging and Redesign we use a proven eight steps method of home staging to get your home ready for its first open house. This method consists of de-cluttering your home, depersonalizing it, creating the appropriate focal points, correcting wall colors, drawing potential buyer's in from the street, creating emotional connection points, modernizing your home's look and feel to attract more buyers, addressing all lighting issues, and keeping your costs low. Every home staging consultation and interior redesign consultation includes an easy to understand customized client Action Plan. This Action Plan will address each room of your home and explain how to correct any problem areas. A Kate's Home Staging and Redesign consultant is also available to come back to help you implement your Action Plan. Digital pictures are taken to be posted online to help your marketing campaigns. Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority.

NEW DIGITAL STYLING SERVICE BEING OFFERED FREE TO HOME STAGING CLIENTS

A free virtual show is currently being offered to all of our home staging clients. After we stage your home, we will re-take your digital pictures and then load them into our virtual show to help market you home more effectively. This is a WIN-WIN for all our clients. Please contact us to learn more about this new digital styling service and free promotion.

At Kate's Home Staging and Redesign we also offer interior redesign and interior decorating services which allows us to transform and modernize your home focusing on the homeowner's unique tastes. We use the eight steps of home staging but take it a step further in addressing permanent storage issues, long range home upgrade plans, and coordinating the overall design theme of your home. Our interior redesign services can transform a room and bring out the architectural details of your home by furniture rearrangement, wall paint selections, adjusting the amount of light in a room, taking into consideration the amount of natural sunlight accessible to the room, and considering the room's functions and required traffic flows. All our interior design work incorporated Feng Shui principles to ensure your home has the appropriate balance and harmony.

A Kate's Home Staging and Redesign consultant will bring the Benjamin Moore Paint Designer Kits to your home so we can decide on wall paint colors for each room in your house. You will be amazed at the options you have just regarding interior color choices, exterior color choices, deck stains, and fence stains. We also offer custom signs to help distinguish your home from your neighbors. Below is an example of a custom home sign made from mahogany:

Attention to detail and customer satisfaction is our top priority. If you are not satisfied with our service, please let us know and we will work with you until you are completely satisfied.

Here are some staging facts to consider:

Before you consider lowering your asking price, did you know that a staged home will sell for up to 10% more than a home that was not staged?

If you are trying to sell a vacant home, 90% of your potential buyers cannot determine if their furniture will fit in the space (lack of perspective).

Is your home represented online correctly to sell? Over 84% of potential home buyers start their search online, so having beautiful pictures of your home online is a necessity today.

An unstaged home will stay on the market up to 190 days versus a staged home selling in 28 days. (RESA 2008 Survey).

According to a 2007 Home Gain survey of 2,000 realtors, home staging has a 343% return on investment.

Before you consider lowering your home's asking price, contact Kate today to see how we can make your home better through redesign!

Kate works in the Tuxedo, Central Valley, Monroe, Warwick, Middletown, Harriman, Chester, Campbell Hall, Central Valley, Greenwood Lake, Monroe, and Goshen area of Orange County, basically the lower Hudson Valley, New York. She also works in Tappan, Nanuet, Suffern, Sloatsburg, Rockland County, New York and (Mahwah, Ramsey, Allendale, Oakland) Bergen County and (West Milford, Hewitt, Wayne) Passaic County, New Jersey.

We offer a redesign package to fit everyone's budget! Ask us about our Realtor discounts and Realtor presentations.

My Expertise...

My expertise is in Color Consultations. I have always had a gift in being able to identify which color would be needed to bring harmony to a particular room. I consider all aspects of the room, from the amount of natural sunlight entering the room, before choosing a color scheme. My room color selections will complement your home and bring added value.

Another one of my areas of expertise is Home Staging. By using proven design techniques to optimize traffic flows within each room, you'll be amazed at how much bigger and brighter your existing home can look. By creating a focal point in each room, we will draw the potential buyers eye to the place we want it to go. By evaluating the amount of natural and artificial light in a room, furniture and wall color choices are made to enhance the existing architectural features of the room.

Having been a corporate project manager for over twelve years, organization is one of my greatest strengths. I have helped many clients organize their home offices to better suit their needs and to ensure their data is being backed up correctly. I have also worked with clients to help them organize their files electronically.

Being highly organized has also helped my clients in the creation of their closet organization systems. Each client's needs will be assessed and the closet will be measured. I will create a custom closet system for each client by combining two or three off the shelve closet systems. Depending on the size of the client's closet, lighting needs may need to be addressed as well. Having a client being able to easily locate what they need immediately brings them enjoyment and greatly reduces their stress level. Organization has always been one of my greatest strengths.

Closet Before Organization

Closet After Organization - Yes, all those clothes are in there!

Creating great curb appeal is another requirement in selling your home quickly. This front porch was completely tranformed by simply using items the homeowner already had and purchasing some additional flowers and a custom wood sign. A professionally trained stager will be able to utilize items a homeowner may overlook and create an inviting space.

Before After

The importance of external curb appeal cannot be overlooked, after your online MLS photos external curb appeal is the next important feature when selling your home. If a potential buyer drives by your home at night, what will they see? Hopefully, a well maintained front yard with adequate lighting focusing on the front door with a visible house number. Please make it easy for the buyers to find you, buying a house is an emotional process and should be similiar to falling in love.

My favorite Testimonial...

"Thank you Kate for helping me stage my home for my Open House. During this slow market, I needed to sell my condo quickly since I was transferred down to Florida. I know the decisions you made regarding furniture placements and accent pieces helped me sell my condo with ease. I received nothing but compliments from every realtor and potential buyer regarding presentation. I wish you were down in Florida so I could utilize your services again the next time I move. Continued success to you and all your clients." - Kathy Florida