Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has won a "Best of Houzz" award for Customer Service on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. Founded in 2004, by Master Accredited Staging Professional®, Joan Inglis, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design was chosen by the millions of homeowners that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 2.7 million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals. 

This is the 10 year anniversary of the Best of Houzz awards program, and Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design's 5th win for Customer Service.

"We launched the Best of Houzz awards program over a decade ago to highlight the work of the most talented and customer-focused professionals in our industry," said Liza Hausman, vice president of Industry Marketing at Houzz. "We are extremely proud of this year's winners, many of whom have won multiple times, and we're pleased to give them this recognition and a platform on which to showcase their expertise."

"Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design is very grateful to have been awarded 'Best of Houzz' for the 5th year in a row. We are thankful to our amazing clients, and humbled that our commitement to quality and customer service in our interior design, professional home staging and luxury home staging, and model home merchandising services has been recognized again by the Houzz community," said Inglis.

 

 

 

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As Featured in the September 2020 Issue of Lake Norman Currents Magazine
 

Whether you are thinking about selling your home in the distant future or in the short term, design decisions on improvements that you make now will have a lasting effect on future salability. Following is a check list of minor home improvements that increase desirability and add value and will help your home sell quickly when you decide it's time to move on.

  • Front Door - The front door reflects the home's personality. From modern to traditional, choose a front door style that is compatible with the overall architecture of the home. Select a complimentary color that is timeless such as ebony or walnut stain. ROI about 70%.
  • Garage Door - Usually the garage door is visible from the street and adds to the curb appeal. Again, select a door style compatible with the architecture. Color should match trim used on the exterior and the garage door should be insulated. ROI about 97%.
  • Fiber Cement Siding Replacement - This siding is a bit more costly than vinyl, yet much more attractive and desirable. Baked on paint colors in deep, appealing colors come with a long warranty. Most popular are grays and blues with white trim. ROI about 85%.
  • Kitchen and bathrooms sell houses. No buyer wants to deal with the mess of updating those rooms unless they plan to offer you a fixer-upper price. Keep it neutral and save the color for decor items.
  • Bathroom Counters, Sinks and Plumbing Fixtures - Buyers still ask for granite in the higher-level options. Quartz is also desirable and comparable in price. Keep colors neutral in grays, greiges, and whites. If you have an older home with the shorter cabinet height, install a vessel sink and tall facets to visually increase the height. ROI about 70%.
  • Kitchen Counters and Backsplash - Buyers still want things light and bright. Select a higher-level granite or quartz countertop in neutral shades of gray, greige, and white. Compliment the counters with a ceramic backsplash in those colors and with a gray grout. Paint your outdated stained cabinets in a white or pale greige. ROI about 80%.

 

Joan Inglis has been featured dozens of times on TV, online and in print.  She has won numerous local, state, regional and international awards since forming her company, Carolina Spaces in 2004. Carolina Spaces is the leading expert in Home Staging, Luxury Home Staging, Model Home Merchandising and Interior Design in the Charlotte, NC region and provides award-winning services throughout the Southeast. Model Home services for home builders are available nationwide

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Charlotte's leading interior design and home staging firm, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design, was honored with the 2019 Pinnacle Award for Best Interior Merchandising, a statewide best overall win, from the Home Builders Association of South Carolina (HBASC).

Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design won the 2019 Pinnacle Award from HBASC for furnishing and merchandising a model home for Avencia Homes at Riverwalk in Rock Hill, SC.

Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design is an interior design, model home merchandising and professional home staging firm that specializes in luxury properties. This is the firm's second HBASC Pinnacle Award, having also won Best Interior Merchandising statewide in 2011.

The Pinnacle Awards is HBASC's most prestigious awards program. Winners were announced at the Celebration of Excellence Awards Gala Aug. 9 in Hilton Head, SC. As a 2019 Pinnacle Award winner, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design will be highlighted in the South Carolina Builder Journal and recognized on the SC Department of Commerce and the SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism websites.

"Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design is humbled and honored that our model home project was acknowledged as Best Interior Merchandising statewide in South Carolina," said company founder and owner Joan Inglis. "To receive this award for a second time from HBASC is a testament to our commitment to quality, and our successful interior design and merchandising services to home builders."

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The model home design services of Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design were once again featured in the Metro Charlotte New Home Guide magazine.  Our merchandising of a builder's model home in Rock Hill, SC was showcased four times in the November 2018 - January 2019 issue, including our merchandisig of the kitchen, dining and outdoor living area of the home. This included the special Builder's Report section of the magazine, as the photo displayed for Lee Lighting's "A Selection of Current Trends in Home Lighting" article was of Carolina Spaces' merchandising of the kitchen and dining area of the Rock Hill model home.  The model was also highlighted as having won a Silver Award in the feature on Charlotte HBA's 2018 Parade of Homes winners.

Carolina Spaces' award-winning model home merchandising services are available nationwide.

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Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design, the Charlotte region's leading interior design, model home merchandising and luxury staging firm, has closed 2018 with the addition of four new awards. These awards, all received during the fourth quarter of 2018, add to the firm's extensive list of accolades received since its inception in 2004.

The Lake Norman Home Builders Association's 15th Annual Best of the Lake Design Competition awarded Carolina Spaces with Best Residential Interior Staging of a Property $500,000 - $999,000 and Best Residential Interior Staging of a Luxury Property over $1,000,000. This is the fourth year in a row that Carolina Spaces has taken home the prize for the luxury staging over $1,000,000 category.

The International Association of Home Staging Professionals® (IAHSP®) awarded Carolina Spaces with the award for Best Vacant Staging at their 2018 International Convention and Expo in Charlotte. Carolina Spaces also won the award for Best Vacant Staging in 2017. The award was given to Carolina Spaces both years over staging companies from around the world.

Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design merchandised the "Byford" model for Avencia Homes in the Riverwalk community, which was placed in the Fall 2018 Charlotte Parade of Homes. The parade judges honored this home with the Silver Award for its price category.

"We are humbled and honored that our work was recognized on the local, regional and international level in the last three months of 2018. We are excited to add these awards to our long list of accolades, which demonstrate our consistency and commitment to high-quality work with high-quality service that generates high-quality results," said Joan Inglis, Founder, Owner and Lead Designer.

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Carolina Spaces was featured in the article "Honoring the Best of the Best" in the January 2019 issue of Lake Norman Currents magazine.  The article highlighted the winners of the 2018 Lake Norman Home Builders Association's Best of the Lake Design Competition.  Carolina Spaces was awarded Best Residential Interior Staging of a Property $500,000 - $999,000, and Best Residential Interior Staging of a Luxury Property valued over $1,000,000 for the fourth year in a row.

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Take one look at the 2019 Colors of the Year and you should know that anything goes!

 
The calming blues and greens selected by Behr, Kelly-Moore, Cloverdale, Diamond Vogel, Dutch Boy, and Glidden/PPG range from gently saturated to intense, but are tried and true. 
 
Benjamin Moore stands firm with a soft gray - an industry standard and the choice of most new construction and homeowners planning to update with paint. 
 
Pantone gives us a rich coral seen all spring and summer in fashions and fabrics. 
 
Akzonoble, maker of Dulux Paint, choose Spiced Honey - a medium-golden neutral shade safe to use just about anywhere, and which makes me almost smell the spices and honey! 
 
Pratt & Lambert’s Earthen Trail is a version of the fleshy beige-pink that’s trying to make a big comeback from the 60s. Some dated properties still display this color in wall-to-wall carpeting and paint. Do you dare? 
 
Sherwin Williams’ dark Cavern Clay and Dunn Edwards’ darker Spice of Life are best in small doses, in rooms where there are a lot of windows and natural light.

Valspar’s 2019 selection of a dozen colors ranging from the tried-and-true neutral to pastels and jewel tones gives you a pallet to complement and contrast. 

In all things paint - remember that light has a great effect on the color you’ll see. Avoid mistakes by consulting a design professional before making your color selection. Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design provides professional color consultations and offers discounts on your paint purchase. Contact us at 1-855-SPACES-5.

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Dear Homeowner,
You've decided to sell your luxury property.  You've painstakingly interviewed Realtors specializing in luxury listings, and you've carefully selected your listing agent based upon qualifications, statistics, testimonials and performance.  As we discussed in a previous blog, luxury real estate requires luxury staging, so now is the time to put just as much effort into choosing a luxury home staging professional.
 
Dear Realtor,
Do you specialize in marketing luxury listings? Exceptional properties require exceptional home staging and you must partner with a knowledgeable and experienced luxury home staging professional.  As you know, home staging is a marketing tool and the quality of the home stager's work (good or bad) will convey to the property and to you!  You're the best - you need the best on your team. 
 
So how do you choose a luxury home staging professional?  With HGTV and numerous staging books available, anyone can call themselves a stager and most stagers now claim to offer luxury staging services.  While there are industry associations that provide training and ethical guidelines, there is no standard or test that measure's a stager's knowledge of core competencies as the staging industry in and of itself is unregulated.  It is very common for stagers, even those who have undergone training, to post photos of rooms on social media sites and ask "How do I stage this?"  The knowledge and service you receive from Stager A can be completely different from Stager B.  You want to select the luxury home staging professional who knows exactly how to stage your property - and not hire the stager who runs to facebook pleading for instructions.
 
In our previous blog, we explained how luxury staging enters the realm of interior design, so in assessing a luxury staging professional's qualifications, one must look for staging as well as interior design education and affiliations.  Do the credentials the stager lists require continuing education?  You want someone who is up-to-date on current trends.  Is your luxury staging project new construction?  Then look for experience with new home sales as well as staging.  Also, how many years has the luxury home stager been in business?
 
A luxury home staging firm that looks good on paper may not actually deliver the quality that you want, so make sure to view current luxury staged homes in person before you make a decision.  Are the rooms fully furnished to show lifestyle?  Is the quality of furnishings appropriate for the price-point of the home?  Is the furniture new, rented, or flea market finds?
 
Lastly, make sure you evaluate the luxury home stager's statistics. What is their average time on the market for luxury homes in your price point? Improper staging can cause a home to linger on the market unsold.  Has the luxury staging firm received any accolades for their successes? As we stated above, luxury staging enters the realm of interior design, so make sure to look for companies that have been honored for interior design as well as staging.  And if your luxury staging project is new construction, look for recognition of showcase and model home projects.
 
Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design - based in Lake Wylie, SC just south of Charlotte, NC - is the only home staging and design firm in the Southeast with advanced knowledge and certifications in the combined industries of Real Estate, Interior Design, Luxury Home Staging, Home Staging, New Home Construction, and New Home Sales. Our name brand and high-end furnishings inventory is unsurpassed.  Our list of accolades demonstrates a proven track record of success over our company's 14+ years in business.  Let our luxury home staging create the exceptional environment necessary for your property's successful sale!
 
The team members of Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design are trained, educated, and licensed.  Contact us at 1-855-SPACES-5 or visit CarolinaSpaces.com.
 
Now that you've chosen a luxury home staging professional, how much can you expect the investment in luxury staging services to be?  Stay tuned!

Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design - based in Lake Wylie, SC, just south of Charlotte, NC - offers award-winning, full-service interior design, professional home staging, model home merchandising and luxury home staging not just to the greater Charlotte area, but to all of the Southeast.  Our model home merchandising and interior design services are also available nationwide. 

 
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In all my years of preparing exceptional properties for sale, I can say one thing for certain – luxury homes require exceptional staging! Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has won many awards for Best Luxury Staging including the 2018 LUX Life Magazine Leading Designers Award for Most Outstanding Luxury Staging – NC, a UK-based international award. 
 
 
Most everyone is aware of what home staging is and how it works. While the principles are the same for staging the high-end luxury market, the process takes off in the direction of design. Luxury home buyers want to see the lifestyle they aspire to in a home - and the luxury stager needs to convey this. One cannot expect a top dollar offer for a multi-million dollar estate when the buyer is left to wander through empty, barren rooms that feel cold and uninviting. Staging is necessary to define the scale and flow of the rooms and luxury staging is needed to inspire those high-end buyers to fall in love with the home and the lifestyle it portrays. Not only must the stager have an eye for updating and details, but they must also have the experience and inventory to execute the project.
 
The quality of the staging furnishings installed is directly related to the buyer's perception of the home's quality. How would laminate countertops affect a high-end buyer's perception of a luxury home? The same applies for furnishings! Will a discerning buyer with expensive tastes pick up on that poor quality table that is the wrong scale? You bet! Will they notice the cheap sofa that appears to be a nice style but when they sit on it, they sink down into the broken springs on this garage sale find? All of this affects the buyer’s overall perception of the home and does nothing to create that "dream lifestyle.” Inappropriate furnishings are revolting and discourage buyers by weakening the home’s overall luxurious feel. 
 
Lavish fabrics and linens, high-end new furniture, eye-catching new accessories and exceptional new artwork are required for luxury staging. When done correctly, luxury staging seamlessly complements the luxurious finishes within the home. Luxury staging needs to show buyers how they would live in the home if they moved in tomorrow.
 
 
At Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design, we have decades of experience providing customized staging for luxury properties. A luxury home may require made to order furnishings in a specific style and finish. We give the house what it needs. We also procure custom upholstery and customized art for our luxury stagings. Our staging helps sell luxury homes faster and for a higher sales price, even those that have languished unsold. Our awards, testimonials and statistics speak for us. Contact us at 1-855-SPACES-5 or visit CarolinaSpaces.com
 
How do you choose the right luxury staging professional? Stay tuned for our next blog!
 
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LUX Life Magazine, an international luxury lifestyle magazine, has awarded Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design with the 2018 Leading Designer Award for "Most Outstanding Luxury Staging - North Carolina."

The United Kingdom-based magazine chose the winners based on merit. Their in-house research team analyzed the past 12 months of Carolina Spaces' performance and commitment, as well as their methods, to ensure that the award went to the most deserving.

"We have scoured the design market in search of the very best, and we are proud to showcase their success in this prestigious awards programme," said Nathan Angell, Awards Coordinator.

"This international recognition was totally unexpected with no campaigning involved. We are extremely grateful and humbled to have received this prestigious award," said Joan Inglis, Carolina Spaces' founder, owner and lead designer.

"With the international recognition of our luxury home staging services, combined with inquiries from international luxury real estate firms and property owners, we are pleased to announce publicly that our model home merchandising and design services are available on the international level."

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