The motto of my business is: Dare to be EXCELLENT!
Whatever you do, do it with excellence! Stand out from the rest! Make your home for sale the best offer on the market! Do it better than others! Trust yourself, because if you listen and keep an open mind, you will have the strength to achieve these goals!
Style, design and individuality have been with me all my life in one way or another
One of the most defining experience of my childhood was the visits of my aunt (who lived in Italy) and her Italian friends. Their scent, their beautiful clothes, and the style that surrounded them ingrained in me forever. My dad always said, “It’s easy for them! As children, they kicked the ball not on the side of socialist panel houses, but on the walls of five hundred-year-old Renaissance buildings. This is why they are so stylish. ”
Perhaps it is also due to these childhood influences that my brother was attracted to arts and became an acclaimed photographer whose vision I have always admired and have been inspired by, to this day.
Later, after spending a few years at a multinatioal corporation, I turned to a more creative field and started my first business, a graphics studio. Then, for a decade and a half, I ran a small boutique hostel and apartments with a unique atmosphere called Aventura. Here I was able to experience my creative side myself. My accommodations have become memorable in the Hungarian hostel market. They have appeared several times in various domestic and foreign lifestyle and design magazines in addition to tourist magazines. It was important for me that my former guests would remember my accommodation for many years to come and return here when they visit Budapest again. The design of my accommodations was never aimed at ultramodern design, but rather led by a nostalgia for old things.
I also have a passion for things of the past in everyday life. I feel good in turn-of-the-century houses, I dance to the music of the 20s, I like to dress according to the fashion of the 50s, 60s and I listen to the songs of the 60s and 70s.
A new approach: Stay neutral!
With Home Staging, however, I learned a new approach. When preparing a property, neutrality is important. It’s important that the interior is not too characterful, because that narrows down the target audience whose tastes you can appeal to. It’s important to create an interior that appeals to most people, or at least, because of its neutrality, doesn’t inhibit their imagination to see their own life in it, even with their own furniture, their own unique style.
I like to bring in the old with the new.
The owners are still often emotional and often to their objects and to their old furniture. And I can sympathize very much with them at this point. While preparing, I tell them that if they upgrade the equipment, it will reach a wider audience, will be in a higher category and they can expect a higher selling price. But if they can not afford these expenses neither emotionally nor financially, I will try to save what can be saved and get the most out of the existing things.
Previously, my apartments used for tourism were somewhat modernized in order to provide enough comfort for today’s travelers, but regardless of that, I tried to preserve the original atmosphere and milieu of the given apartment. If it couldn’t be everything, I still saved at least a small piece, a detail from the past of the apartment. I installed an old rolled pattern wall, old kitchen stone or even furniture left behind by the previous owner unnoticed in the hostel environment. I love it when a piece of the past can live on in the present.
You shouldn’t contact me, if…
If you are thinking of renovating your apartment for sale in a turn-of-the-century tenement house and throwing away old wooden bourgeois doors, copper door handles and replacing wood parquet with laminate, you definitely shouldn’t call me as a Home Stager! I can’t suggest or do anything like that. When renovating or remodeling, I try to keep the home as close as possible to the original character that the designer intended when they built it. I am convinced that people who choose an old house over a new one are looking for the same value. So let’s give them what they want!