The project
"Traditional without being fussy. Under contract in nine days."
The sellers had finished a careful refresh — new trim paint, refinished floors, a reworked kitchen — and were ready to list. The listing agent brought us in two weeks before photography to stage the house for the young-family buyer they knew was out there.
We kept the architecture the star. The living room took a low-slung boucle sofa and a small-scale oak coffee table instead of the oversized parsons pieces you’d see in most Chapel Hill stages. In the breakfast nook, we swapped a four-top for a round pedestal table — smaller than MLS photography usually allows, but it kept the room open from the kitchen sightline, which is how a family would actually use it.
Bedrooms got layered textiles over clean-lined beds. The primary reading chair was a warm sage bouclé — a small moment of color against the architectural neutrals. Nothing on any surface was purely decorative; every object could be picked up and held.
