27/08/2026
Before there were listings, there were canvases.
Long before real estate, I spent years as a commissioned artist. Hours in front of a blank canvas, learning how colour, light and composition change the way a space feels before a single word is said about it. I didn't know it at the time, but I was training for the job I have now. I just didn't have a name for it yet.
I still think like an artist walking into a home. Where does the light actually fall in this room, not where the floorplan says it should? What does this space need to feel finished, not just furnished? A cushion angled just slightly differently. Linens that feel like they belong to the people living there, not a showroom. It's the same instinct I used to bring to a canvas, just applied to a house instead.
That's why I style every listing myself. Not because I don't trust anyone else to do it because I can't switch that eye off. It's not a service I offer. It's just who I am.
People sometimes tell me a home I've styled doesn't look staged. It looks lived in, loved, like someone's about to walk back through the front door any minute. That's the highest compliment I could get. It means the artist never really left. She just found a bigger canvas.
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