Have you ever seen a room in a design magazine and wanted to create a similar space in your home, only to discover the pillows you admired cost more than your mortgage?! Well real people like you and me have real budgets! In my job as a home stager, I come across this challenge all the time and have learned many ways to give a room an instant new look without breaking the bank.
I am excited that as part of HomeGoods' new "Designer is In" events in the coming weeks, I will have the opportunity to share with you in person and online my tips and tricks for updating your home-affordably! I will be appearing at four HomeGoods stores near Philadelphia. Some of the topics I plan on covering in my presentation are:
•· How to make your rooms look 15 years younger with just a few simple accents
•· How to add color to a room and create a dramatic change without a single coat of paint
•· How you can instantly transform the style of any room
Also, make sure to bring your design questions, pictures of any rooms you are working on, fabric swatches or photographs and ideas that inspire you and I will be happy to consult with you and answer your questions.
If you cannot make the store events, please post your design questions here and I will be happy to help.
Plus, after each in-store event, I will blog about the questions that came up at the store events and the shoppers I meet.
Hope to see you at my presentation. I will be speaking three times a day at 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, and 2:30 pm. At the following HomeGoods:
September 13
St. David's Square
550 East Lancaster Avenue
St. Davids, PA
September 20
Airport Square Shopping Plaza
Bethlehem Pike & Upper State Road
Montgomeryville, PA
September 27
Marlton Crossing Shopping Center
Corner of Rte. 73 & Rte. 70
Marlton, NJ
October 4
Concordville Town Centre
501 Town Center Drive
Glen Mills, PA
I look forward to meeting you in person at my area HomeGoods stores and helping you create inspiring rooms on any budget! KH
Wow, Kate! What a fabulous opportunity, how did you stumble upon THAT!? What a great way to get your name, face and industry out there to the people!
Sounds great! Wish I could come and see you in person and learn from a Home Staging Master!
What a great opportunity for those that live in or around those stores! Good for you and congratulations.
Kathy
Kate -- wish I lived closer to PA! Good luck with your presentations and I'm looking forward to seeing your blogs afterwards.
Kate, I am glad to see that you are continuing to work with Homegoods to educate the public on how important our industry is. Congratulations!
Let me know if you come down to Charleston. We have one in Mt. Pleasant....
I will have to watch this post as I live in Canada and not visiting soon to see you in person. :(
Kate~
What a fantastic opportunity for you! Have fun, you'll be great!
Jessica
Kate - if you ever make it to the Washington DC area I will come!
Good for you girlie. Congrats. t
Hi all
Thanks for your kind comments. I am really excited about this opportunity to work with HomeGoods and of course to promote staging. I hope the stagers in the PA region will stop in to hear one of my seminars. I will keep you all posted. KH
Yay Kate! Congratulations. What a great boost to the consumer confidence in you and your business and great trickle down effect for all of us!
Kate Hart...taking it to the masses!
I used to live in Cherry Hill, so I know where the Marlton store is. What a great chain to be associated with.
Congratulations Kate! What a great marketing idea to establish yourself as the "expert". Way to go!
Kate - Congratulations. If you come to Greenville, SC or Charlotte, NC, let me know.
Hi Kate!
What an awesome opportunity - good for you that you are recognized as 'THE' professional to turn to for answers to decorating dilemmas! Home Goods is one of my all-time favorite stores to shop in when I need accessories or small furniture for staging jobs.
Let me know when they are bringing you to 'the Island'!
Val
Congrats. That's great for everyone who lives in your area!
Kate, How fabulous and a wonderful opportunity! Question, if you don't mind - Is the corp. paying you for your time or is this pro-bono?
Kate,
Congrats again!!! Home Goods has made a smart choice. First with you being their guest blogger and recognizing home staging and now being a spokesperson and making personal appearances. You have positioned yourself well in this industry and this is an amazing marketing opportunity for you and Select Home Stagers. I can't wait to see what comes next.
Shell
Cherry Hill is the only New Jersey location? That's appaling! Please tell me who I have to complain to at once!!
This is a great way to get out there and spread the message along with selling your services. We just had a Homegoods store open up this weekend and I plan on talking to them about this as well. Thanks Kate!
Congrats Kate - this will be a great opportunity for you and our industry as well.
Sorry I can't come and chat - you know I would have some interesting questions. It will be fun to see what the "shoppers" ask. At a Home Goods here in MN I did a center store display with their merchandize to take a photo for a client. The manager said they weren't moving a thing back. The next trip in he told me they sold the entire display to one woman who fell in love with it.
Those lucky customers! What an awesome opportunity for you!
Hi Kate,
I wish you would come to Seattle and bring Home Goods with you. I visit my girlfriends on the east coast every year and one of the the highlights is shopping.