LAURA JOHNSON
Certified IRIS Interior Redesigner
((818) 707-1225

 

 

The 2006 NAPO conference in Boston, MA. hosted almost 900 professional organizers! Laura is pictured here with the National President of NAPO, Barry Iszak. The National Association of Professional Organizers boasts a membership nearing 3,600!  

Laura wants to help you get started on your organizing, staging, and home decorating by offering some free tips for you! We'll be putting up a new tip every so often so keep coming back for more. Please feel free to contact Laura if you want more details about any of the tips we're posting.  Just click on the Email link at the bottom of the page.

Sheets can become a jumbled mess. Try this simple trick! Fold your top and bottom sheet and one pillow case. Put these in the remaining pillow case for a nice, compact package that’s easy to find and will stay neat on the linen cabinet shelf.

  Let Me Tell you what services are offered
  Interior redesign or one day decorating, color consultations, Redesign Staging, and Organizing in the home  are my specialties.  Let me ask you a few questions:

 

  * Have you just moved into a new home and need help arranging your furniture, placing accessories or hanging artwork?
  * Is your home stale and boring but no budget for an interior design make-over?
  * Do you love what you own, but just can't make it look right?
  * Need some color in your life?
  * Are you selling your home and feel overwhelmed with all there is to do to get it ready to put on the market?
  * Are you a realtor with properties that just aren't moving?
 

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, Let Me Rearrange You is your solution! 

Interior Redesign service utilizes what you already own to make your house into the home you have always wanted. It gives your house a smile!

We rearrange furniture, hang artwork, place accessories, and even help with de-cluttering problems if needed.  

Color consultation will help you select the perfect colors for your walls and accessories based on what you already own and love. Color consultation does not include the actual painting.

 

 

Redesign Staging, is a must for the home seller and listing agent. They only have those first few seconds to “wow” a prospective buyer, so make the most of those few moments by having your home look and feel its best.  Professionally styling a home for resale will help a home sell faster in a slow market and at a higher profit in a stronger market than homes that have not been staged. * 

            In-Home Organizing is a natural progression when someone is moving or is in the midst of changing their home.  As a proud member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), I can help you deal with all the "stuff" you have collected over the years.

Let Me Rearrange You will prepare the home going on the market by “decluttering” and maximizing the space to make the house “pop”.  Although we want to give the house a lasting impression to prospective buyers, we are also sensitive to the fact that the sellers are usually living in the home while it is still on the market. We will make every effort to maintain the comfort of the home, while making it a showcase to realtors and buyers. We use the homeowners’ furnishings to their greatest potential without the cost of renting new pieces, which increases the cost of the Styling.  An investment of a few hundred dollars can mean thousands more in the sale price and will speed up the process.

May I ask one more question?

If you were to sell your family car, would you just plop a sign on the window and sell it to the first person that made an offer, or would you have it detailed so that it would sell to the highest bidder? Styling a home is like detailing a car – we give your home that finishing touch that puts it above the rest. 

*from Realtor Magazine Online 4/01/2003

What a thrill to be a guest on the Queen Mary in Long Beach where HGTV's Michael Payne was the guest speaker.

 

 

  Let Me Transform your house from blah to "AHHH"!
 

When is someone ready for an interior redesign?

  * Are you bored with your home, but can't afford to hire an interior designer to start all over?
  * Do you love what you have but it just doesn't feel right or isn't working the way you had hoped?
  * Did you inherit some pieces that need to be integrated into your existing furnishings?
  * Do you have a lot of artwork that you just don't know how or where to hang properly?
 

Let Me Rearrange You can take the blahs and transform them to “ahhs” in a one-day redesign. Usually for less than the cost of a new piece of furniture, your house will say “Welcome Home” by utilizing what you already own. It may be one room or a whole house – or just a few pieces of art or family photos that need to be hung properly, we can do this for you. By using sound design principles and lots of creativity, we will make your home what you have always wanted.

 

 

A quote from one of Laura's customers:

 

Visitors are awestruck at how beautiful everything is.  One friend says the
bookshelves & redesign make our cavernous dining area 'cozy.'  Now
that's quite a coup.
  In the living room you truly accomplished a
"redesigning for the sexes" by accommodating both our needs and wants.
Plus it looks great & works well.     
G. Hornbeck, Northridge, CA

 

  Let Me talk to you about your vision for your home.
 

Where do we begin? The best place is in your home where we can discuss what you have in mind. Give me a call so we can arrange a convenient time to meet and chat about your plans and dreams for your home. Your lifestyle is uniquely you so I need to find out how you use each room and the things you have now. We can discuss how to utilize your existing furnishings to maximize their potential.

 Although we try to use only the existing furnishings by “shopping the house” and using what is there, we may need to suggest additional purchases such as a throw, candles, a table lamp, or other inexpensive items that will make it all come together, giving that designer look without the designer price tag!

 If this is a redesign for real estate (Styling), I’ll be delighted to meet with you and/or your realtor to work on a game plan for streamlining your home for a quick and profitable sale. We can work together, or you can Let Me Rearrange You do it all. (What I don’t do is bring in rental furniture or tell you to paint all the walls white!)

 If you are moving into a new home, perhaps we can meet before you move in to discuss your colors! When you have moved, we can get the furniture and accessories placed just right in their new home!

 

  Let Me Rearrange You will do it right-All in one day!
  Why try to move all the furniture and accessories yourself when Let Me Rearrange You knows how to do it right!  Let the professionals do the redesign in one day, while you go to work or out to lunch and shopping!  What a delight to come home to find your home transformed into a warm and inviting refuge - the home you always wanted.

Don't miss the Before and After pictures using the link at the end.

  Let Me introduce myself.
 

Auntie Mame and her flamboyant decorating schemes sparked my interest in interior design when I was a small child and then I saw Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk – that’s all it took to convince me that I needed to get into the design field!  Marriage and family detoured my plan, but in January 2001, I launched my career in the new field of Interior Redesign with Let Me Rearrange You.  I immediately joined and have become an active member of the Interior Redesign Industry Specialists (I.R.I.S.) that is an international group of professionally trained interior redesigners.  My college degree in interior design was never completed and the Lord gets the credit for my color eye!  Some things just come naturally, I’m happy to say!  I was very fortunate to be invited to be a part of the “Shop the House” news segment on KCAL, channel 9 here in the Los Angels area and was seen in a tiny part on the It’s Christopher! show! (Great fun)

Most recently, I was part of 2 other interior redesign segments. In November, we did one for KCBS channel 2 (also shown on KCAL 9) in Los Angeles that was also for reporter Lora McLaughlin. I was also included in Ric Romero's Consumer Report on KABC Channel 7 in February 2004.  There are photos in the Before and After shots - take a look!

I am ready and eager to work with you to transform your home from blah to “ahh”!

Let Me Rearrange your living space, making your home a haven.

Laura appeared (with beautiful Lora McLaughlin) on the All About You segment of the CBS news  in Los Angeles.  It was a very exciting day and a wonderful redesign for some very happy homeowners.

 
  Let's talk about the bottom line.
 

REDESIGN:      The first place to start is with an in-home consultation. A typical consultation lasts about an hour and costs just $75. With your permission, I will take photos of your room and follow up with additional ideas and suggestions via email.

A full room redesign can cost less than a new piece of furniture and you’d feel like you have a whole new room! Quotes for a room are impossible to give without a consultation to see the room, the furnishings, and other factors

STAGING:      A comprehensive real estate staging consultation from front curb to back fence is $125. You (or your client) will have a complete guide when it is completed to get the home ready for a quick sale.

 When the “home work” is done, I return, usually with an assistant, to fine tune the furniture and accessories. This is usually accomplished for a few hundred dollars. Fees for preparing a home for sale are considered a "cost of moving expense" and, in most cases, tax deductible. 

COLOR CONSULTATION & SHOPPING:      We can discuss hourly fees as we chat about your project. I will do everything I can to work within your budget.

Call or send an email so we can set up an appointment!

   

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Laura's assistant, Gayle.  Hard at work!

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LAURA JOHNSON

Certified IRIS Interior Redesigner

((818) 707-1225

 

 

 

 

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