Karen Parziale, Principal DesignerKaren Michela Parziale has been a professional stager and interior designer for nearly 20 years. 5,500 homes and counting, her staged homes have received high accolades from realtors, developers and homeowners. With artistic sensibilities and an exceptional eye for composition, scale and proportion, she treats every space as a unique canvas, telling its story through thoughtful and beautiful design.
She has also been professionally trained and certified in Feng Shui Design and studied with some of the most renowned masters from China and the United States. Karen Michela earned her certification from The Feng Shui Alliance and infuses Feng Shui into each and every staging and interior design consultation. She combines her Interior Design knowledge with Feng Shui to create beautiful harmonious and balanced spaces. In addition to capturing the aesthetics, she also excels at each phase of design including project management, space planning, material selections and builder/architect/client relationships. From the PressCheck out Karen's recent interview with Eric Dye of EPN Enterprise Podcast Network about her process, her experience in the industry and everything she does when she's tasked with staging and designing homes:
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Here are some of reviews left by our satisfied customers over the years.
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We hired Karen as an interior decorator for our loft style 3BR apt in Hoboken. Starting with a blank canvas, my husband and I loved how Karen was able to narrow down our likes and dislikes to create a style that works for the both of us. She worked tirelessly (and patiently) to help find us just the right pieces to use and is careful to make sure we LOVE everything we select. Thanks, Karen, for helping make our forever home feel like OUR’s.
bethlehemlg
Client / Project Date: April 2020
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We hired Karen to stage our three bedroom apartment in Hoboken before putting it on the market. Karen brings a unique and valuable background to her work as she has many years of experience in the marketing side of the real estate business as well as a serious certification in Feng Shui. She knows what will work to sell an apartment. She quickly ascertained what was needed to improve our space, both energetically and aesthetically. With her wonderful work ethic and warm personality, she did not waste any time helping us clear out items for storage, remove and rearrange furniture and accessorize in order to maximize our market potential. She helped us hire a photographer and even found movers for our storage items. Our apartment sold in less than 6 weeks! Karen has a wonderful personality and helped make the whole process a lot less painful and even fun. When she was done, I almost didn’t want to sell our place!
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Client / Project Date: April 2020
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I’d highly recommend Karen Parziale – she did an amazing job staging our Staten Island home for sale. The house was decorated so nice – we wished we had contacted her years beforehand! We had our first offer within 48 hours of listing and multiple full-price offers in less than 10 days. There was tons of interest and multiple showings almost every day – thousands of views on Zillow and lots of ‘Saves’ in a very short time. Décor and colors were neutral and we attracted a wide range of buyers for showing – all ages and backgrounds. We had local buyers as well as interest from Brooklyn. Karen and her associate, Lauren Truppo, met with us multiple times and helped transform all areas including a basement and backyard. We contacted Karen 6 weeks before listing and she provided recommendations for paint colors, rugs, and a few additional furniture/decor pieces. Honestly though, almost everything was staged using our existing furniture/items. She helped change the layout and organized decor in ways that would look fabulous for photos. She was available for follow-up emails, text and phone calls after the initial consultation. Karen and Lauren returned the day of the photo shoot to help organize everything one last time and make sure the photographer executed the right shots. Her final last minute touches made a big difference. When our realtor’s photographer was an unexpected no-show on the day of the shoot, Karen was extremely professional and helped set us up with a really stellar photographer for the next round.
Jane D
Client / Project Date: March 2019
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Karen’s staging work is brilliant! I am a real estate agent in Hudson County, NJ. This is the 2nd time I am working with her. Karen helped me stage a 2 bedroom (1,800 Sq Ft) condominium in Weehawken that went under contract within a few weeks. Potential buyers in the open house commended on how good the place looked. Karen brought a lot of her own accessories to stage the unit. She took care of the entire furniture move in, coordination with the management and went out of her way to physically remove grass from the balcony. The first time I worked with her, Karen staged my two bedroom condo in downtown Jersey City. The Condo sold at a good price and quickly. The apartment looked beautiful. Karen is very easy to work with; she is generous and I get the feeling that she genuinely loves making spaces beautiful. Highly recommend Karen
Saquib Rahim
Client / Project Date: October 2018
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I called Karen for a Feng Shui consult on my new apartment. She was immediately warm, kind and shared information. We set a date and she arrived promptly and she was so wise, honest, helpful, insightful- I can't say enough. She came back at second time and she stayed for longer than the scheduled appointment (both appointments) because we had so much information to share. Karen taught me about feng shui principles and how to apply them. I'm so glad I contacted her because she's a gift and my apartment and my life is improved because of her teachings and applications.
Susanrobinseed2
Client / Project Date: April 2018
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Karen is very responsive. After a short conversation with Karen about putting our condo. up for sale, she lined things up, and before we knew it, the condo. was ready for viewing. Using her feng shui skills, she instinctively knew the right color combo. and design that would work for each room. In less than 72 hours after she was done, we had a sustainable offer. Thank you, Karen!
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Client / Project Date: October 2017
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Karen Parziale of The Real Estate Staging Studio decorated my condo beautifully. She made simple and inexpensive suggestions to stage my two bedroom condo after we had been on the market for 5 months on our own. After her staging, we had 2 offers in one week and closed within 30 days. Karen is a true professional, easy to work with and will help you get your home sold.
Damon Burrell
Client / Project Date: March 2018
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Karen was awesome - she made our home look so wonderful and what I really loved was she worked with what you had instead of asking you to run off and buy a ton of new things. She came in two visits - the first to do an assessment, the output of which was a list of things for you to do, which was nice because we had a target to work towards. She then came for a second visit a few hours before photographer came to help us with the fine touches and final set up. She was also able to lend us a couple pieces (rugs, lamps, etc) to wrap up. Super loved working with her and would totally hire her next time for other small projects like helping us decorate our house!
Camille Go
Client / Project Date: January 2018
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We recently hired Karen to decorate our home for staging. From the moment we spoke on phone I found an ease about her. She walked through our home giving us great advice along the way, she went shopping with me (my favorite time with Karen) , she helped with shopping for pieces on-line and she came home and set up everything for us. She worked efficiently and constantly, even late nights, sending me ideas on what to buy. Karen has an incredible eye for decor... almost intuitive in the way she can pick out the one thing that would work. And she is very kind and generous, always teaching and sharing nuggets of decoration wisdom. I found her very easy to work with, happy, organized and efficient. She was very flexible with our choices, worked within our budget and was perceptive in sensing our likes and dislikes. She balanced all that keeping the end goal in mind --- to sell our home. The final product was a complete transformation of our home that we fell in love with so much that we truly contemplated never moving. Our realtors loved the her decoration too and also found Karen amazing to work with. I highly recommend anyone struggling with selling a home or living in a home that's outdated to give Karen a call.
Jen B
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