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My love affair with homes comes from my background as a military child. My father's career choice allowed me to spend my childhood moving around the world with the Air Force. I watched my mother pack and unpack and make every home beautiful, on a budget knowing it was temporary. Sometimes it was base housing, a home in the suburbs, an apartment in the city or a villa in a souq (small village in a district) in Africa. Both my mother and father were creatively talented and artistic and do it yourselfers. From a very young age I loved setting up my new bedroom each time we moved, helping my mom rearrange the furniture until it was just right and creating a beautiful and functional space. It's not surprising I found myself in love with homes, architecture and design. My love for travel, art, home furnishings, textiles and beautiful spaces plays out with my clients. I encourage and coax them to find their own sense of style and have fun and consider new design ideas. My favorite question to my client for every space is form or function? This always starts a conversation of how will you use this space, what is most important in this room and what do you want to feel when you are here? I use these questions for my remodeling clients so that money is spent wisely to deliver exactly what they want. I also use this for staging clients so we can create a high emotional response from buyers to their home to elicit top dollar.
Awards & Affiliations
From my clients~
I felt so fortunate to have Holly stage my home for sale. Holly is a master in creating inviting style. She was able to take the furniture and art we already had and arrange it in a fresh and beautiful way. I loved what she did with the staging so much that I asked for her help in designing my new home. Holly was such a joy to work with!
Holly, gave us great advice on what to update in our home before we made it ready to sell. She had an objectivity paired with great taste and a collaborative attitude. Her staging was spot on and completely fit our contemporary Spanish-styled home. March 2020 was a challenging time to sell a home. But the beautiful photos of the staged home got nearly 2000 social media views in a month. The right buyer found us based on the photos of her staging. I'll use La Bella Home again!
Holly was so wonderful to work with! We loved the way she instantly knew what to do with our bedroom and the rest our house. Holly is easy to work with and kind . She is very knowledgeable in home decoration and can help you accomplish the overall look that you are desiring. I will use her again and highly recommend choosing her as your expert design professional!
Teri and Vince
I am a real estate agent who depends on Holly to stage homes so everyone who walks in the door wants to live there. Some of my clients have been so delighted with Holly's transformation of their old home they have used her services to make their new home look just as wonderful. Holly is intuitive about both homes and people. You will immediately feel comfortable with her. She understands your home must please you. In staging, the home must please a wide range of people and she succeeds at that. She has a gentle way of explaining what is working and not working for you in your home and why and what the solution is. A great way to start with Holly is to have her consult about paint ...
Holly Barker Lee at La Bella Home was phenomenal! She was hired by our Realtor to stage our home. She worked very hard to make our home look as best it could - no home is perfect and she highlighted its best features. The house never looked so good and her advice on how far to take the staging/painting provided us with a very high offer the day it was listed. She listens very well and kept all your wishes in mind even if it wasn't necessarily how she would like it. We were so impressed, we hired her to help with our interior design in our new home. She was even more impressive in listening to our entirely different vision of our new home and we could not be happier with how it has turned out...
I felt so fortunate to have Holly stage my home for sale. Holly is a master in creating inviting style. She was able to take the furniture and art we already had and arrange it in a fresh and beautiful way. I loved what she did with the staging so much that I asked for her help in designing my new home. Holly was such a joy to work with!
Holly, gave us great advice on what to update in our home before we made it ready to sell. She had an objectivity paired with great taste and a collaborative attitude. Her staging was spot on and completely fit our contemporary Spanish-styled home. March 2020 was a challenging time to sell a home. But the beautiful photos of the staged home got nearly 2000 social media views in a month. The right buyer found us based on the photos of her staging. I'll use La Bella Home again!
Holly was so wonderful to work with! We loved the way she instantly knew what to do with our bedroom and the rest our house. Holly is easy to work with and kind . She is very knowledgeable in home decoration and can help you accomplish the overall look that you are desiring. I will use her again and highly recommend choosing her as your expert design professional!
Teri and Vince
I am a real estate agent who depends on Holly to stage homes so everyone who walks in the door wants to live there. Some of my clients have been so delighted with Holly's transformation of their old home they have used her services to make their new home look just as wonderful. Holly is intuitive about both homes and people. You will immediately feel comfortable with her. She understands your home must please you. In staging, the home must please a wide range of people and she succeeds at that. She has a gentle way of explaining what is working and not working for you in your home and why and what the solution is. A great way to start with Holly is to have her consult about paint ...
Holly Barker Lee at La Bella Home was phenomenal! She was hired by our Realtor to stage our home. She worked very hard to make our home look as best it could - no home is perfect and she highlighted its best features. The house never looked so good and her advice on how far to take the staging/painting provided us with a very high offer the day it was listed. She listens very well and kept all your wishes in mind even if it wasn't necessarily how she would like it. We were so impressed, we hired her to help with our interior design in our new home. She was even more impressive in listening to our entirely different vision of our new home and we could not be happier with how it has turned out...
I felt so fortunate to have Holly stage my home for sale. Holly is a master in creating inviting style. She was able to take the furniture and art we already had and arrange it in a fresh and beautiful way. I loved what she did with the staging so much that I asked for her help in designing my new home. Holly was such a joy to work with!
