Staging Directors is a full service staging and interior design firm that is a collaborative effort between Gail Ingis and Bobbi Reilly, both experienced and talented design professionals. These home staging experts bring years of experience and training to their home staging projects, but each with a different focus that allows their clients to benefit from a full compliment of staging and interior design perspective and skills.
Staging Directors will meet with you at your home, go through the entire house with you room by room, and discuss what needs to be done in each room to prepare your house for sale. We do the same for the exterior of your house. A few days later, you will receive a packet with a detailed report of our staging recommendations, general tips for preparing your house for sale, and checklists to make your eventual move easier. You may then choose to carry out the staging recommendations yourself or hire us to do it.
We come to your home and stage certain rooms or the entire house. Depending on what's needed, we rearrange furniture, remove clutter, shop for accessories, arrange for furniture rental if needed, arrange for painters, plumbers, carpenters or any other contractors and oversee their work. We will do whatever else it takes to get your home market ready.
Work with what your have! Sometimes a simple "face lift" is all a home needs to have a new look. Rearranging furniture - perhaps with a few new additions, new accessories, fresh paint, new window treatments and/or rugs can be just what's needed to freshen up your home.
We discuss your dreams and fantasies with you, your needs and life style and work with you to fill those needs. We tackle any architectural problems of your house. We do furniture design and placement, color your world with surface finishes and materials, objects, patterns, and textures all beautifully balanced. Your home will have an appealing undisciplined look, the direct result of great focus and meticulous planning.
Bobbi Reilly has had a 30 year career straddling two worlds - fashion and interior design. She has been an assistant Fashion Director for Martin's, a chain of specialty stores in the metropolitan New York area. She has owned a company that offered image enhancing services in style and color analysis, wardrobe planning and personal shopping. Bobbi has worked for some of the best interior designers in New Jersey and she created and managed a personal shopping department at Bloomingdale's Riverside Square store in Hackensack, New Jersey. With Bloomingdale's extensive clothing departments and renowned home furnishings store, Bobbi capitalized on her talents in both the fashion and interior design worlds by dressing her clients and working with them to furnish their homes. She often found herself advising them how to get their houses ready to sell, and the seeds of her staging career were sown. Currently, she is actively staging properties for both home owners and builders. Bobbi is an exercise advocate. When she isn't doing her exercise or staging and working with her clients, she and her husband Frank Reilly enjoy their city pied-a-terre from where they visit the theatre, museums, and restaurants. Together they collect original art and vintage rock & roll posters.
Interior Designer, home stager, professor of history of architecture and design, photographer, juror, writer, design critic, realtor, and accomplished artist, Gail Ingis does it all. She is the founder of the nationally accredited Interior Design Institute. She is accomplished as an ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) certified and registered interior designer. Gail's expertise in staging is a natural extension of her long career in interior design, commercial design, home building, renovation and construction management. In the early 1980's, while working as an interior designer and proprietor of the Interior Design Institute, she developed a program and taught the now very popular art of staging. Currently, she is actively staging properties for both home owners and builders. When Gail is not doing staging or interior design for her clients, she still paints and as a member of the USPTA (United States Professional Tennis Association) she enjoys playing tennis with her husband Tom Claus, Ph.D.