New Milford woman stages houses for sale
Diane Valentine, owner of Diane Valentine?s Staging Your Home, adjusts a display of art in her New Milford home. Valentine markets her staging service to real estate agents but is available to any homeowner.NEW MILFORD -- Diane Valentine knows all about sentimental attachments to a house.
The Danbury-based Prudential Realtor raised five now children, now adults, in a rambling, five-bedroom Bethel farmhouse and it was a heart-wrenching decision to sell it.
But once the grandmother made up her mind, she had to divorce herself from the memories behind the picture-hanging holes in the 30-year-old walls and well-loved couches and chairs. She now needed to look at it through a buyer's eyes rather than a homeowner's.
So the longtime interior decorator and artist salvaged a few possessions and dumped the rest to move three years ago into her treehouse-style, two-bedroom cottage a short walk from Candlewood Lake.
Diane Valentine, owner of Diane Valentine?s Staging Your Home, adjusts a display of art in her New Milford home. Valentine markets her staging service to real estate agents but is available to any homeowner.NEW MILFORD -- Diane Valentine knows all about sentimental attachments to a house.
The Danbury-based Prudential Realtor raised five now children, now adults, in a rambling, five-bedroom Bethel farmhouse and it was a heart-wrenching decision to sell it.
But once the grandmother made up her mind, she had to divorce herself from the memories behind the picture-hanging holes in the 30-year-old walls and well-loved couches and chairs. She now needed to look at it through a buyer's eyes rather than a homeowner's.
So the longtime interior decorator and artist salvaged a few possessions and dumped the rest to move three years ago into her treehouse-style, two-bedroom cottage a short walk from Candlewood Lake.
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