Staging Dreams

2010 World Wide Staging Service Week – we are in the process of selecting this year’s project recipient.  If you know of a group or organization that could benefit from our Int’l Assoc. of Home Staging Professionals time and talent contact me!  I’ll post more information about the project as we proceed.

 

 

 

September 2009 Just had a long but productive day at our Nashville Chapter of International Association of Home Staging Professional’s (IAHSP) 2009 community service project called World Wide Staging Service Week.  Our project this year was re-doing the living room and activity room at one of the residential cottages at the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home in Brentwood.  Although I helped moving furniture etc. for the living room, I primarily worked in the Activity room.  This room is where the teens who live at this house with houseparents can go to spend some “reward time”.  It was pretty much a disaster when we first looked at it - only lighting was a single lamp, craft supplies in dilapidated storage containers, a meager table to work on, and a badly worn work bench with weights spread around on the floor.Because we wanted to make this a fun room we were lucky enough to have Synergistic Painting repaint the room a bright green color and we brought in brightly colored accessories.  We got a new work table and chairs for the crafting area. a new storage cabinet, desk top lighting and two new floor lamps, a new work bench, weight tree, wall mirrors, TV stand, and I painted a series of four paintings bringing together the colors of the room.  We’re excited for the teens and houseparents to see the finished results.

Here’s our IAHSP gang

The new crafting desk area

More of the crafting area with my art work

  New storage cabinet & lighting

  Weight bench area and new weight tree

New work bench and mirrors on wall

  Paula and me working

  Resting after a long day at work

  TV area with art work I made

 

 

September 2008

 

The middle of September, 2008, the Nashville Chapter of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals (IAHSP) again participated in the World Wide Staging Service Week.  Our project this year was the office of the Domestic Violence Program in Murfreesboro.  We redid the front lobby, kitchen, and conference room.  Thanks to monetary donations from the IAHSP Foundation, Bob Parks, Wiser & Co., Square D/Schneider Electric Foundation, Walmart/Sam’s Club,  and Dr. Tom Peltier, and in kind donations/discounts from Synergistic Painting, Kirklands Floor to Ceiling, Main Street Enterprises, National Association of Professional Organizers, and individual donations from local Stagers we were able to totally repaint those rooms, replace furniture, add accessories and storage, and rearrange all three of these rooms.  We worked on the project over several days and put in a lot of time and effort but the final result was more than worth it.  I was proud to serve as Chairman this year but we couldn’t have succeeded with so much assistant from all of our IAHSP members.  Check out some of the pictures below.

 

Here’s before and after of the lobby area.

 

 

 

 

Here’s before and after of the kitchen. 

 

 

Here’s before and after of the conference room. 

 

 

 

These are the Chairpersons for the 2008 project - Pam Woods (lobby), me (overall), Sylvia Silva (kitchen), and Cynthia Peltier (conference room). 

 

This is our crew of Stagers who worked on the project. 

 

How about the coffee bar we added to the kitchen? 

 

 

September 2007

 

Our service project this year was at Against the Grain in Franklin.  They are a non-profit group that provides training and assistance to single mothers in areas that include job training, financial education, and counseling services.  We redid their lobby area, training room, and conference room.  We repainted all three rooms and brought in new accessories and furnishings.  I was Co-Chair of the lobby area and with the help of Pam Woods and Pam Wipf, fellow Stagers, we really made a difference.

Lobby area beforeMore lobby before

 

 

Lobby area after

 

More lobby after

 

Our Chairs with the ATG Directore (Paula Foster - Training room, ATG Director, me - Lobby, Bev Burger - overall Chair and conference room)

 

Our Staging Group at project site