Services
Occupied, vacant, and new build. Andrea Wetzel walks the property once and quotes whichever of the three it turns out to be.
Cricket on the Hearth sorts the three staging services by whether you still live in the property. Occupied staging edits and re-places furniture a seller already owns. Vacant staging furnishes an empty property from scratch. Builders and agents book new build and model home staging, and Andrea Wetzel quotes all three from one Edwardsville walkthrough.
You do not have to work out which one you are before you call. The walkthrough sorts it, and the answer is usually obvious inside the first two rooms. What follows is what each of the three actually involves, so you know what you are buying.
Route one
You still live there. Most of what the room needs is already in it, so the work is placement and subtraction before it is purchase. Furniture moves off the walls, surfaces come down to two or three objects, and the sightline from the doorway gets opened up. The house stays usable through showings.
What it involves
Route two
The house is empty, which reads smaller and colder than it is. Buyers cannot judge a room without something in it to measure against, and an empty room photographs as corners and floor. Furniture, rugs and lighting come in at the right scale so the room reads as somewhere a buyer could live.
Where the furniture comes from
Route three
A finished spec is not a finished product until it is furnished. Cricket on the Hearth has staged for Superior Homes, Inc. and in the Brookshire subdivision, styling to the buyer the builder is actually targeting. Staging is the last trade on the schedule, and it books like one.
How it books
Not everyone calling is selling. The same eye that stages a house for a buyer will style one you are keeping, and Cricket on the Hearth takes that work too. Room layout, furniture selection, color, and the finish work that pulls a room together.
Cabinet painting has come up more than once as part of a kitchen refresh, and there is a real before and after of it on the design page. It is a painting job rather than a staging job, and it is labelled that way.
Common questions
Yes. Cricket on the Hearth stages properties across the Metro East, including Granite City, Glen Carbon, Troy, Collinsville and Brookshire. Edwardsville is home and the largest share of the work, and the drive time to the surrounding towns is short enough that the service is the same in all of them.
Yes. Alongside staging, Cricket on the Hearth takes interior design and styling work for homeowners who are staying, and has done cabinet painting as part of a kitchen refresh. Staging is the core of the business and the design work runs from the same eye.
Cricket on the Hearth sorts the three staging services by whether you still live in the property. Occupied staging edits and re-places furniture a seller already owns. Vacant staging furnishes an empty property from scratch. Builders and agents book new build and model home staging, and Andrea Wetzel quotes all three from one Edwardsville walkthrough.
Andrea walks the property, writes the plan, and quotes the work. Edwardsville, Granite City, Glen Carbon, Troy and the surrounding Metro East.
Request a quoteStaging since 2015 · RESA affiliated
