Home Staging

RedFin + CandysDirt: Why Staging Your Dallas Home Pays Off

By Shelby Skrhak / September 10, 2025 /

When it comes time to sell, presentation isn’t just important — it’s everything. Across the country and right here in Dallas, the data is clear: a staged home sells faster and often for more money than one left as-is. Redfin recently collaborated with CandysDirt.com’s Karen Eubank to list nine undeniable benefits of home staging, and…

Moving On Up: Kips Bay Decorator Show House Announces Turtle Creek Location

By Elaine Raffel / August 18, 2024 /

If anyone can transform a massive 25,000-square-foot vacant office space into a supremely stylish showplace, our bet is on this year’s crop of Kips Bay designers. The renowned Decorator Show House has finally landed a location: it is moving uptown to 2999 Turtle Creek Blvd. — high-profile commercial real estate with a storied history.   …

Magdalen House Opens New Men’s Detox Facility With a Little Help From Stager Karen Otto

By April Towery / January 18, 2024 /

A new Magdalen House facility on Caddo Street offers a no-cost two-week social detoxification program for men suffering from alcoholism — and it was important to the nonprofit organization’s leaders that it be safe, comfortable, and feel like a real home. Enter Karen Otto and Home Star Staging.  Otto met Magdalen House Women’s Coordinator Ashleigh…

{neighborhood} Has a New Thing: Home Staging, Design Tips, And Everything Else

By Nikki Barringer / June 20, 2023 /

JP and Erin Hossley are a married design team and also shop owners, art curators, gallery owners, exclusive retailers, stylists, and a home staging team. They’re wonderful in every way and above all else they’re talented, humble and so much fun to work with. If you’re up for a story with twists and turns and…

Breathe Easy With These Top-Ranked Air Purifiers

By Elaine Raffel / June 11, 2023 /

Air purifiers work by flowing air through microscopic filters, saving you from inhaling bad-for-you particles.