Category Archives: Residential

Breckenridge Lane – Home Staging project by Candi Hutchinson and Siobhan Sheehan

Team work can make staging a home easier and faster. Why do it by yourself when you can have a few of your staging friends help you. This is what Candi Hutchinson did at Décor Solutions when she staged this home. She sought out the help of her staging friend (Siobhan Sheehan) and ended up with a great look for the home seller.

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Before Picture
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Dining room
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Family room 2nd view
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Kitchen 2nd view
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Living room
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Living room 2nd view
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Living room 3rd view

Halloween!! Spookyboo time!

 

Halloween decorating is just so, October!!  You get to celebrate the entire month!  We pulled together a few decorating ideas to help get your house looking really scary.  Well maybe not really scary, but fun scary.

Best place to start, the entryway of course!  We used  pumpkins collected over the years and lined the stairs.  Grab some inexpensive autumn greenery to fill in around the pumpkins and you have a full fledged indoor pumpkin patch.

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Side board in the entry way is covered with a table runner from Potterybarn.  It does a nice job covering the top and just add MORE pumpkins and a few candles and done!  Use a battery operated candle inside the pumpkin for light.

Happy Halloween!
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Next, the dining room.  We used a spider web runner on the table and laid out a spooky tree centerpiece.  Both came from Potterybarn. The bats hanging from the light were purchased from Hallmark.

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Peterson Street – Louisville Home Staging

Homeowners needed help in staging their home for sale.  Worked with the homeowner to use everything existing in the home to keep costs down.  Cost was less than $1000 and home sold in less than 30 days.

“Urban & Upscale provided an amazing service by staging our home before selling it. Because of this, our home had offers on it within the first week on the market… And this was in a buyers market. The house sold within 30 days thanks to the extraordinary and professional service provided by Urban & Upscale. Within 5 hours they transformed our home using OUR things to appear much more spacious and beautiful than it had been when they began. I can’t say enough about how important I think this service is in selling a home.

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Master Bedroom Staging

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The master bedroom was designed around a faux finish created on the walls of the home by artist Patrick Sheehan.  Bedding was chosen around the gold, green, grey and brown color schemes in the room

Bed and pillows are from Arhaus. Bedding is both Arhaus and Potterybarn
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Detail of faux finish on the walls to give the room a “cloud” feel.

 

An Artist’s Studio Renovation

The artist’s studio was created as both a studio to paint and an office.  The artist is a muralist based in Louisville, KY.  So installations and designs were generally large.  This meant the need for an area that could accommodate large scale production.  What you see here is the beginning.  Please keep checking back as we continue the renovation.

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Jacob’s Ladder

There is also a need to display some of the artist’s paintings and illustrations.  A decision was made to recreate the space into both a studio and a gallery. 

 

Things that needed to change:

  • Remove books from the space off the bookshelves and the credenza.  Given that most reference could be gathered from on-line reference, the need for some of the books had become unnecessary

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    Art Studio before renovation
  • Begin to declutter and clean the area.  The space has become a catchall for anything and everything since it is in the lower level of a private home
  • Tile for the floor was from the 1960’s and the decision was made to replace with ceramic tile that had the look of wood.  This would keep the floor easy to clean if paint should spill.DSC_0024
  • Walls were paneling and installed when the home was built.  This will be replaced with drywall

 

Start of the Renovation

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Gallery before removal of books and storage boxes

All the books were removed from the credenza that were located in what will be the gallery.  This freed up space and uncluttered the area.  Storage boxes were moved underneath a table in the studio.  Finally, a piece of art that dated back to 1975 was hung on the wall between the lamps.

Gallery after removal of storage boxes and books

 

 

After books
Books and wiring removed from the Studio and Gallery

Bathroom – A Quiet Retreat

Original design for the bathroom was white as a basic simple palette.  It’s clean, soothing and lends itself to offering that retreat feel to a bathroom.  It’s also great for changing up when you want to add more color for interesting focal points.  We added red towels and a red rug for some additional color.  Interesting parts of the space:

  • This particular bathroom had no closet space, it was removed during a renovation but the owners still needed a linen and storage closet.  A cabinet purchased from Arhaus was the perfect addition.
  • The tub was purchased online from a company specializing in free-standing tubs.  Hardware was also available and made it a simple process to add the faucet to the purchase.
  • Bead board was used around the walls that worked with the 60’s cape cod style of the house
  • The window is a café style turned sideways and rolls out to open.  Screen is on the inside of the window.
  • Birdbath was used as a place for a nice floral arrangement and a spot for soap or cloths when needed.
Bathroom Renovation
Bathroom Renovation
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Linen Closet from Arhaus
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Stone bird Jewelry holder
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Silk flowers on bird feeder
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Linen Closet – from Arhaus
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Mirror and lighting from Potterybarn
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Mirror and lighting from Potterybarn. Sink/Cabinet from Lowes
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Sink/cabinet fro Lowes
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Free standing tub. Glassware on the wall from Arhaus

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Residential Projects

These are just a few of the projects that we’ve been working on.  Some of these are in our home, some are from clients we’ve worked with over the years.  All of them inspired by a need to change up, refresh or get the place ready for the next owner.  Let me know if you have any questions and I’ll be happy to share!