MANN REPORT: June 2008

Cinderella no more.
Vegas: Your Fairy God Mother

By Jill Vegas
Jill Vegas LLC

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true
-Cinderella, 1950.

Cinderella believed in dreams. But she also had a little help from the Fairy Godmother. Do you wish you had a fairy godmother to miraculously transform your cluttered, dark, closed-in space into a sparkling, fresh, modern home that buyers are frothing to purchase? Look no further than Jill Vegas LLC ---a virtual "magic-wand" staging service.

Jill Vegas can provide the quick fix you need if you're having trouble figuring out how de-clutter a room, whether it's for the purpose of selling or just to spruce up your home for summer. We'll come in and within an hour provide sellers with a game plan for what needs to be done. You'll receive resources, priorities, a timeline and a to-do list to kick your property into shape. It'll bring instant results.

There are things you can do yourself to provide that fresh burst you are looking for. Take the bedroom: like swapping out your tired winter jacket for a new summer dress, you can breathe new life into your bedroom with new bedding. Pamper yourself with luxurious Italian sheets. Buy a new comforter and pillows for your bed.

In de-cluttering, you will want to strip down your bedroom to the bare essentials - nothing under the bed. And get rid of everything you haven't used in the last three months; donate things to charity. The trick is to figure out the absolute essentials of the room. Everything else goes. In the fresh, de-cluttered bedroom, such as the one pictured, styled by Jill Vegas, the room includes only a bed, a reading area and a nightstand. Keep things un-fussy by placing simple white sheers around to soften the room.

Once de-cluttered, try painting the room. This is a creamy café au lait, with gold metallic flashes to add glamour. For a dreamy ethereal sleep, all white can be too stark. Layering-on textures brings a softness and makes the room inviting. Or, create an instant reading nook. Find a nice chair or bench for sitting and reading fiction and poetry, place a table and lamp next to the chair, and voilà. You can stack some New Yorker magazines on the table and a good book or two (my favs right now are short stories by Grace Paley).

Flowers are another way to bring the summer indoors. Fresh tulips add a burst of color.
In this day and age, you might not be able to find a Fairy Godmother. But if you are feeling like Cinderella, banished to scrub your floors with a toothbrush to make them look presentable, think about giving Jill Vegas a call. Everyone needs magic-wand service every once in a while.

Jill Vegas
212-627-9402
jill@jillvegas.com

 

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