REAL ESTATE
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HOME & DESIGN
MARY ANN KOENIG
SHOWING OFF
Kirsten Kennedy, left, and Tiffani Buckley at Hazel House, their 5,000-square-foot retail store in downtown Vero Beach, which opened in December 2018
and doubles as design studio and showroom for their staging business.
Entrepreneurs discover homes are more
attractive to buyers when presented with
style and elegance
BY MARY ANN KOENIG
Shakespeare may have written that “all the world’s a
stage,” but at Hazel House, to stage is the business at
hand and it’s done with precision, not simply As You
Like It.
Tiffani Buckley and Kirsten Kennedy’s Vero Beach venture
reimagines the concept of styling and staging a home for sale,
and couples a critical eye with the power to forecast trends
and dictate design. “We use neutral palates, a pop of color,
and design and style elements that best suit the home’s architecture,”
says Kennedy.
Their focus is on high-end, luxury homes mostly priced at
$2 million and up.
Their 5,000-square-foot retail store just opened in December
2018. It’s part showroom and part design studio, utilizing accessories,
furniture, fabrics and style tools that are displayed
with accessibility and inspiration.
“With the retail store, clients can see that this is the look
you’ll get if we design your house, or for real estate agents,
stage a home,” says Kennedy.
Hazel House utilizes staging as the driver for the other
company divisions of design and style, and retail. This threeprong
approach has helped expand their business by producing
benefits for both buyer and seller.
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