As an interior designer, Amy Johnston offers a unique talent creating functional and visually appealing spaces. Your interior design choices bring your home to life and can make or break a home. Well done aesthetics optimize the best use of space, can transform structural eyesores and flaws, add individuality and is a form of self-expression. Your custom designed home can provide more comfort, enhance mood, and an elevated sense of pride in your home. Depending on how your home presents visually, it has the potential to increase or decrease your home’s value. Amy will work with you to develop a look and style that develops your home into your own personal piece of art.
Depending on your home's needs and your vision, this can encompass working with our trusted team of architects, landscape artists, and builders. Together, precisely planning out a full home remodel, a mid to mini-remodel to modernize or change the overall style of a home, add onto your home or to remedy outdated or flawed structural designs.
Amy works with you to make the endless interior finish decisions that are required to ensure a visually harmonizing, well flowing designer home look. Assistance in selecting flooring, paint colors and complete color palette, accents, countertops, back splashes, cabinetry, doors, coordinating hardware, sinks, appliances, cabinetry, window coverings, bathroom finishes, and most importantly, lighting and light fixtures.
Amy has a passion for home furnishings. She is able to make any design style you can imagine come to life. She previously lived in New York City and worked as a personal home stylist. With a vast knowledge of many different known and more obscure high end luxury furniture brands, rare-find custom and unique designers, a connection with many artists, and a connection to many one-of-a-kind pieces. She brings a flare for creativity that can give your home that special touch. She focuses on listening to you, asking questions and uses many techniques to bring your exact vision to life. Factors such as functionality, best use of space, and how chosen pieces will enhance and balance with existing design elements are put into best use, while maintaining home comfort in mind.
All buyer clients are offered a discounted rate for interior design services on their new home. All seller clients are offered discounted rates on any home updating or remodeling needs.. All interior design services are offered to non-real estate clients. Please inquire below for a free customized interior design consultation for your home.
Home staging is imperative to selling your home and the statistics speak for themselves. According to the National Association of Realtors, 85% of staged homes sold for 5 to 23% higher than listing price. Homes that are not staged spend an average of 184 days on the market before selling, while homes that were staged sold in just 23 days. Staging a home increases the home's dollar value by 1 to 5% compared to homes that were not staged. 96% of Realtors surveyed believed that home staging positively influences a buyer’s decision.
Staging a home allows sellers to show off a move-in ready home and engage buyers with a visually appealing place to live. Staging helps buyers to envision the home as their own with less distractions. Staging services include help with decluttering a home, reorganization, making interior design choices that best showcase your home and adding furnishings that best compliment your home .
All Seller clients are offered basic staging services free of charge and a cost only charge for more advanced staging. Home staging services are offered for non-real estate clients as well