Interior Styling & Organizing
Your home is often your most valuable asset, your safe haven to unwind, a place of welcome for friends and an expression of your personality and the life you live. Your home tells part of your story, in your choices of colour, its feel, the small pieces you have picked up from travels and the design details you have chosen. Is the story your home is reflecting, the one you want it to tell and the one you'd like guests to see?
Interior Styling is a service that helps bring the look and feel you want for your home, whether its just one room or the whole house. Penelope offers an initial consultation to meet with you to view your home and to discover what looks you love. This is your chance to share your aesthetic dreams and decide if you'd like Penelope to help you create them. Bespoke session/s are arranged that focus on your priorities and consider how you use your home. Treasured items and ...
If you have the design and look you love but find it is getting buried under additional layers of belongings, new possessions, unsorted papers, or general clutter, you might prefer Home Organization and De-cluttering. A welcoming ambiance, beautiful designs and your story can get swamped when possession take over and crowd the space. Penelope can help in anything from an overflowing bathroom beauty cabinet to a paper-strewn study or every room in the house. Having moved house over 30 times, including multiple overseas re-locations, Penelope is highly experienced in helping you decide the items of true value and reduce your collection to the perfect size for your lifestyle. This service is also popular with clients who are moving house, especially downsizing, and wish to limit what they keep and pack. Unwanted items are assessed for their recycle value - to sell, donate to charity, freecycle, bedding for animal shelters and so on. Deciding their final destination and selecting the charity is your choice. Penelope will eliminate the chaos and reacquaint you with a life of organization, beauty and comfort.
Interior Styling is a service that helps bring the look and feel you want for your home, whether its just one room or the whole house. Penelope offers an initial consultation to meet with you to view your home and to discover what looks you love. This is your chance to share your aesthetic dreams and decide if you'd like Penelope to help you create them. Bespoke session/s are arranged that focus on your priorities and consider how you use your home. Treasured items and ...
If you have the design and look you love but find it is getting buried under additional layers of belongings, new possessions, unsorted papers, or general clutter, you might prefer Home Organization and De-cluttering. A welcoming ambiance, beautiful designs and your story can get swamped when possession take over and crowd the space. Penelope can help in anything from an overflowing bathroom beauty cabinet to a paper-strewn study or every room in the house. Having moved house over 30 times, including multiple overseas re-locations, Penelope is highly experienced in helping you decide the items of true value and reduce your collection to the perfect size for your lifestyle. This service is also popular with clients who are moving house, especially downsizing, and wish to limit what they keep and pack. Unwanted items are assessed for their recycle value - to sell, donate to charity, freecycle, bedding for animal shelters and so on. Deciding their final destination and selecting the charity is your choice. Penelope will eliminate the chaos and reacquaint you with a life of organization, beauty and comfort.
When house-hunting, most buyers make up their mind in the first few minutes of viewing so it makes good sense to book a stylist to create a stunning first impression. Buyers need to be able to imagine themselves living in your house and the space itself needs to be showcased to its full potential. The vast majority of people cannot "see through" other people's things and tastes to visualize the potential in a house. Styling Your Home for Sale ensures your house stands out from all the others they’ve seen that day! Sessions start by de-cluttering the space of personal objects to create a clean canvas for buyers' eyes. Carefully selected colours and other design elements freshen the look, and give it the polish and elegance to help get the price you deserve.
Sometimes it takes a leap of faith to invite someone into your home and let them see the real state of affairs. Or to confide in them that you find keeping possessions under control or staying on top of organization a real challenge. Penelope understands this and offers her Charter of Ethics to give you peace of mind on matters of trust and confidentiality. To read the full Charter, click here. Coming in 2017, Virtual Organizing Services for those living further afield and Empty-Nester Downsizing. |
What your package includes
Interior Styling
Initial consultation to discuss your ideas and preferences. The chance for you to share and decide. Initial photos can be taken and there is an exclusive Style File of ideas to look through for inspiration. Sessions are designed and tailored for you, where you and Penelope create your vision. The length, number and intensity of sessions is your choice. We will consider how you use the space, then together decide on your new style. By knowing your story and ideal image and by assessing your existing and treasured items, we can create a look that becomes part of your visual biography. |
Home Organization & De-cluttering
Initial consultation to meet, see the current situation and discuss the results your want. Your chance to decide if you feel comfortable. 'Before' photos are taken and there is a self-assessment quiz, in addition to coaching, that can help you understand how to overcome the problem in the future. Sessions are carefully tailored, and as with Interior Styling, the length, number and intensity of sessions is your choice. Sorted items are replaced and restyled or set aside by type for recycling. 'After' photos and a personalized set of design secrets finish the sessions. Being organized gives back one of most precious assets, your time. |
Styling Your Home for Sale
Initial consultation for an honest appraisal of how your home appears to potential buyers and for photographs to be taken. Once again, this is your opportunity to decide whether to enlist Penelope as your stylist. Subsequent sessions consider everything from kerb appeal and a welcoming entrance, to furniture placement, use of colour and inside your cupboards. Serious buyers look everywhere! Small investments in things like minor repair jobs, decorative treatments or professional cleaning services may be advised. Then rooms are home staged (set dressed) ready for the all-important marketing photographs for print and internet. Making your home your buyer's dream home ensures your property stands out and becomes their favourite. |