Our journal is a place where you will find our new blogs and stories. We comment on the housing market, give you links to Youtube videos on how to achieve our look and provide useful top tips on your own property presentation.
Life Changing Events
Today is the day of my official book launch. I wrote ‘Sell High, Sell Fast – how to sell your home for the best possible price in the quickest possible time’ last Christmas and have spent much of this summer reviewing, editing and reviewing again with my fabulous...
Job Vacancy – Design Stylist
Lemon and Lime Interiors provides professional advice to vendors, developers and estate agents on the presentatio of properties in order for them to realise the maximum return on their investment. Overview of the role; To design and deliver staging packages for...
Stageflow – the back story
Unusually for someone running a home staging business my degree is in Maths. I have had several careers, some using my degree and some not but having a brain which does numbers has always been useful. In home staging I have long maintained that concepts such as...
Housing Market Update
Rightmove has revealed the findings of some recent research on the property market and it will come as no surprise that, since the easing of lockdown as far as moving house is concerned, lots of people living in the biggest UK cities are now planning a move to the...
Colour Comeback
Katrina Burroughs wrote a lovely article for the Sunday Times this week 02/08/20 called ‘Colour is the new greige’. In it she talks about how people at home during lockdown, staring at their own four walls have been experimenting with colour resulting in ‘rainbow...
Rishi Sunak’s summer statement stimulates the housing market
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that there will be a Stamp Duty holiday on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England and Northern Ireland will be a massive boost to the housing market. Currently Stamp Duty is levied at 2% above £125,000 and 4% above £250,000...
Success during lockdown!
We’ve had an uncertain few months with the housing market being closed for two months during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a difficult time for vendors with property ready to sell but not being able to allow potential buyers through the door. But for...
Love Business East Midlands feature: New virtual service
In our feature in Love Business East Midlands we discuss our new virtual staging service and how it has helped local developers during this time. "When it comes to Lemon & Lime Interior’s new virtual staging service, the results really speak for themselves - the...
Housing market back up and running again?
The housing market looked to be in a good place during the early part of 2020 and then Covid-19 shut it down for almost 7 weeks. Estate agents were given very short notice when they were told they were able to get back to work. Although this is fantastic news for the...
Building Design & Construction feature: Company uses virtual service to boost property sales
Read about the great success of our virtual staging service on East Midlands-based property developer, Hereward Homes two new properties.This new service is really important to the property market – during these unprecedented times estate agents needs to ensure...
Zoopa feature: Maximising small kitchen spaces
Wondering how to maximise the space in your kitchen? Read out tips and tricks featured in Zoopla! Read the full article here.
The Times feature: Home staging tips to help you to sell your property online
Today we are extremely excited to be featured in The Times talking about what you can be doing during the pandemic to prepare your property for sale ready to market post lockdown. We cover some really useful tips and questions you should be asking your agent....
Why virtual staging will be crucial post-lockdown
This week we were featured in Property Investor Today discussing the re-opening of the housing market after these unprecedented times. For numerous reasons, it is vital that the housing and property market must be kick-started again and estate agents and...
Luxury Interiors Magazine feature: Home staging company uses new virtual service
We are delighted to be featured in the Luxury Interiors Magazine! Read Elaine's comments on how important our new virtual service is to the current housing market. Read the full article here.
Virtually Staging your property during lockdown
Our new virtual staging service is really important to the property market, during these unprecedented times vendors need to ensure their property is catching the eye of potential buyers. With viewings all over the country being put on hold or not taking place, home...
Houses for Life after Lockdown- No2 Granary Barn
Continuing with our blog series about perfect post-lockdown homes and the new ‘essential list’, our second featured home is Granary Barn. Not only does this home have multiple leisure facilities already integrated, there are plenty of rooms to convert into the perfect...
How will Coronavirus Impact the 2020 Housing Market? – Our View
One of the questions we find ourselves discussing with vendors, estate agents and friends every day at the moment is what, as a business closely tied in with the housing market, do we think will be the impact of the coronavirus crisis on house prices for the rest of...
15 different ways to use baking soda to clean your home!
Bicarbonate of soda or baking soda, can be found in most people’s kitchens. If not, it is easy to get hold of, not expensive and is a brilliant multi-tasker. it is not only useful for cooking, it can also work wonders as a cleaning product. Here are a few useful tips...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – Weeks 5 and 6
Gosh, where does the time go? Two more weeks of lockdown just disappeared. Am I the only person still buried in work projects I intended to start when we went into lockdown? I seem to have been busy with the every day, blogging, keeping up with our lovely clients,...
Houses for Life after Lockdown – No1 Manor Croft
In our last blog I wrote about how this strange period we are going through right now will change what is on a house buyer’s ‘essential list’ once moving is possible again. This is the first of our featured homes that we believe will suddenly be offering pretty much...
