I was born in 1958 in a suburb of Charleston, West Virginia “affectionately” know as Lick-skillet – our community, so poor, that residents purportedly licked their skillets clean. It wasn’t far from being a misnomer; I’d seen my father treat his dinner plate as a dog would its bowl on many occasions, but, mitigated more...Read More

Larger model home merchandising firms will assign a project manager/designer to oversee and delegate responsibilities to subordinates. The project manager will maintain the focus and overall coordination of the group, but, such tasks as window treatment design and specifications, art selection, and accessory purchases will be doled out to less expensive, and typically, less skilled...Read More

Once all the data has been compiled on the prospective home buyer, once the architects have produced a floor plan that Sales deem appropriate, up to three model home merchandising firms (usually, one favorite and two extra to keep the one honest and sharp) will be invited to bid on the project. Model merchandising is...Read More