Home Dress Up
with Kat Conolly
Testimonials
57 Clyde St, Bondi Beach, Sydney
The best thing about engaging Kat Conolly's expertise to get my house ready for sale, is that she took the stress out of this daunting process.
A couple of weeks before taking the marketing photos, Kat came around and left me with a precise list of what to do to improve the look of the house, together with useful recommendations of how to do this in the least costly way.
Closer to the date Kat came equipped with a plethora of beautiful small furnishing pieces, which she bought on my behalf after setting a budget. Being gifted with an astute sense of how to create stunning visual effects.
Kat managed to transform my house into a luxury abode I didn't recognise myself. The whole process went incredibly fast as Kat is also a fast working, hands-on and resourceful person. Any last-minute small handy man job - like hanging a picture - she would do there and then, so there was no frustrating delay. As a result the transformation of my place went within hours and left me feeling confident and relaxed about the presentation of my house.
She was on my side during the photo-shoot and before the first opening, giving the last touches to her work. All in all she helped me greatly in keeping the cost down for a terrific presentation of the place and prevented me from stressing out about the whole process. The real-estate agents were thrilled. They couldn't believe the before and after transformation.
Nadine Helmi, Bondi Beach
Kerry Thorn
5/11 Elizabeth Bay Crescent
Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011
RE: Katrin Conolly,
Home Dressup
Sometimes things are just meant to be. I was preparing a very large four-story mansion terrace house in Roslyn Gardens for sale. I had owned the home for fourteen years and was quite attached to both the grand rooms and my furniture and things that I felt just seemed to fit in the spaces.
Our real estate agent recommended I talk to a couple of companies who would create the look that would make the property easy to sell! This I did and was quite shocked with both the price and the look that was suggested! The proposal was to remove all of my belongings, put those into storage for how ever long necessary to sell the property, and replace with their (boring) furniture and knickknacks, for what I thought was quite a price (over $12,000) for the 4 week campaign.
The property market for these large houses is not buoyant and it needs a very special person to buy this sort of property; fourteen foot ceilings, grand spaces, lots of stairs over four floors, no car parking, no view.
I accidently came across an email from Katrin, and she had signed it, Home Dress-Up. This caught my attention, so I inquired what that meant.
And, Katrin did just that. She had a good look at the home, and recreated an absolutely lovely, simple yet pleasing look that everyone loved. She is very clever. Katrin made the spaces, using all my things, just look so inviting, and it cost very little. For very small cost to me she added and took just what was needed to make the home very inviting.
I highly recommend Katrin to help you create your special spaces.
Kerry Thorn
From a happy vendor
If you have children or a very busy life you need to employ Katrin from Home Dress-up! We experienced stress-free selling, with 100% confidence that our home was presented to its maximum potential.
Katrin prepared our home for the photoshoot with incredible artistic style and ingenuity. She hired minimal furniture, keeping most of ours and rearranging it, which saved us a lot of money for furniture hire and storage costs. She achieved a unique look that was so much more interesting and beautiful than a complete hire furniture package. She is a brilliant artist! Her creativity completely transformed our home in a way we couldn’t have imagined- and she managed the whole process!
The feedback from the agent was that the new appearance perfectly suited the market, and that all potential buyers during the open homes were very impressed with the presentation.
Throughout the entire sales period we lived our lives as normal: we left our home to visit friends and family for a few hours, knowing that Katrin will wave her magic wand and when we came home we knew we had a superbly presented open home, which she immediately child proofed after the inspections, so we could just return as if nothing happened.
During the process of decluttering and styling the house, Katrin and her team always worked around my hours with the children, which made it very easy for me. Her warm and friendly character is a pleasure to have around.
I don’t know how I would have done it without her. I highly recommend her to style your home and manage the entire process of photo shoot, open homes and auction day.
Home Dress-Up took the stress out of the sales process. Congratulations for finding this urgently needed market niche, to help us busy mothers selling a home!
Naomi R., 26 Montague St, Balmain
Testimonial by AirBnB Client
We used Home Dress-Up to get one of our properties on Airbnb as a second income stream. We knew exactly what to do after Kat consulted us: we de-cluttered, sorted, styled and sold items on ebay as per her instructions.
1 week later she took amazing photos. We were on Airbnb within 1 hour and had our first enquiry 2 hours later, with our first booking the same day. Since then we have been very busy with bookings and are thrilled with the service Kat provided. She is hands-on, very creative and has fast and practical solutions for every situation. We needed someone as passionate as Kat to come in and tell us what to do, to get started. Because of her help the daunting process of getting a house ready for a tenant was taken care of and it was much easier and faster than we expected. Her business is filling an incredibly needed niche for the combined service of styling and photography! If you have a room or whole house to lease or sell, or are looking for a home swap, professional images of beautifully styled spaces are the centerpiece of your marketing campaign. We would highly recommend her services!
Linda, Balmain
Testimonial of Oliver Steele, 67 Ballast Point Rd. Birchgrove
"In an incredibly short time Kat transformed the interior of our house to make it charmingly photogenic and very appealing for inspections. With simple but clever ideas I would never have thought of, she used our existing furniture to great effect. Stroke of genius to swap dining table in kitchen for a smaller one and open up the kitchen space! You'd be mad not to get her round. A fresh pair of tasteful eyes can work wonders for less than you'd think."
Testimonial of Rachel Hole, 25 Curtis Rd. Balmain
"I just wanted to thank you. I would never have managed without your amazing help."
Testimonial
Kat helped us when we sold our house while we were overseas.
Without hesitation I would recommend Kat to take care of any and every aspect of your house renovation, sale and/or move. She has a great sense of style, and at the same time can keep an eye on your budget. She is capable, efficient, and effective, and able to maintain good communication.
She was involved in all stages: from the start of the agents campaign to our possessions being safely deposited in our new house. Right from the start she helped with the initial setup for the photo shoot, then she kept up the superb presentation for the home opens and maintained a good relationship with the agent at all times. After a speedy and successful sale she packed up the smaller items, co-ordinated the movers and the cleaning up so we were confident the house had been left in good condition for the new owners. She supervised our move into storage, and even reminded us when it was time to organise the move out of storage into our new place. She also made calls to the agent we were buying from and our lawyer when we were unable to contact them due to timing issues.
At every stage during the process I have been impressed with Kat's friendly efficiency. She has used her experience with styling and selling houses to our advantage.
Alexandra Bruce
Former Birchgrove Resident
Hi Kat,
I hope you had a lovely weekend.
Thank you for all you help with the sale at 9 Thomas Street.
I’d be more than happy to recommend your services going forward – you have been absolutely brilliant to work with.
All the best and I hope to be in touch soon.
Adrian Oddi
LICENSED ESTATE AGENT
Authorised Cobden & Hayson Agent
Testimonial
Kat was invited to give us ideas to solve some issues we had with room-allocation and furnishing the home to make it more practical and useful for a family with 3 kids under 8 years. We needed help to re-claim some grown-up space and streamline the different needs of kids.
She came to our house, took notes and photos and within a few days came back with ideas that we decided to implement.
She has a very positive and outgoing attitude and really listened to what we had to say and wanted…She is very practical in her approach, can think around corners and has a great sense of style.
We don’t like interior designers who turn up in fancy vans and charge $1000 just to turn up and then tell you that all your home content should be dumped….
Her approach suited us perfectly: make do with what you have, re-arrange and de-clutter: We got a new look for very little cost!
Her input made our lives so much easier and we can only highly recommend her services.
We would be happy to be called for a reference should you like some verbal feedback.
Paul Wenck, Sydney NSW