About Us
Distinguished Homes is a full-service home staging and interior design company located in West Michigan. Our goal is to provide the clients of Jaqua Realtors a positive experience in readying their home for the real estate market. We are also available to assist new homeowners with their design goals.
Johanna Jaeck
Johanna’s impressive credentials and experience as an Accredited Staging Professional® allow her to consistently surpass expectations. Houses are transformed into homes: sophisticated, picturesque spaces relatable to any buyer.
Peg Dorgan
Peg has 33 years experience cleaning residential, commercial and new construction properties. Her certification from Transformations School of Staging & Redesign in 2014 allowed her to create a full-service menu for her clients selling their homes. Peg is extremely dedicated to helping her clients navigate the home selling process and ensuring a market ready property.
Market Ready Consultation
Occupied Home Consultation
• Home walk-through with market ready consultant (1-1.5 hours)
• Specific suggestions on repairs, updates, cleaning and depersonalizing
• Market ready checklist to prepare your home for the market
• Advice on placement of furniture and decor
• Referrals including window washers, carpet cleaners, painters, etc.
• Photo, showing, and open house checklist
Vacant Home Consultation
• Home walk-through with market ready consultant (1-1.5 hours)
• Specific suggestions on repairs, updates and cleaning
• Market ready checklist to prepare your home for the market
• Referrals including but not limited to window-washers, carpet cleaners, estate planners, etc. who work with us and our home sellers on a regular basis
• Quote for staging services as needed
Reduce time on the market and increase the sales price
82% of buyers’ agents said staging a home made it easier to visualize the property as a future home.
Staging Packages
Leave It To Us
» 3-4 days
» Deep clean
» Hand selection of staging accessories for your home
» Package and transport of accessories to your home
» Accessory stage +and 30-day accessory rental
» Day-of photo prep
» Removal, package, and transport of staging accessories from your home
» 2 Days
» Hand selection of staging accessories for your home
» Package and transport of accessories to your home
» Accessory stage and 30-day accessory rental
» Day-of photo prep
» Removal, package, and transport of staging accessories from your home
for Both Vacant and Occupied Homes Staging Furniture
» Quotes upon request
Quick Stage for Photos, Showings or Open Houses
» 3-4 hours
» Two stagers on-site prior to photos, a showing, or an open house
» Rearranging furniture to create space, logical traffic patterns, and conversation areas
» Depersonalizing (walls), de-cluttering (countertops, dressers, bedside tables, coffee tables), and organizing (closets, pantries, cabinets)
Virtual Photo Staging
This service places stylish furniture, artwork and décor into photos of vacant properties. It serves as an economical choice for showing your listing as a desirable, well designed space. We can create rooms of any style, from modern to traditional. The most realistic virtually staged houses start with professionally taken photos. If vacant photos are not available for a property, we offer item removal. We can remove light furniture and clutter from your photo to make the room “vacant” to allow for better staging.
Portfolio
HouseholdCoordination
Household coordination services are geared towards seniors or those looking to downsize/simplify.
» Identify projects to prepare home for sale and moving
» Coordinate quotes from services providers including but not limited to, cleaners, haul away, estate sale companies, professional organizers and donation sites
» Inventory of furnishings
» Creation of floor plan to place existing furniture in new home
» Guidance on how to reduce household items
» Creation of timeline and step-by-step planning
Color Consultation
» 2 hour consultation
» This consultation focuses simply on selection of a paint color palette for your home
» Our design consultant comes prepared with hundreds of paint swatches from Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore to create a custom look for your interior
Cleaning and Decluttering
Market Ready
Cleaning
Our cleaning services make sure your home makes the best possible first impression and makes the selling process a snap. With over 35 years of combined experience in high-end residential and commercial cleaning, we know how to efficiently prepare your home for sale with a deep clean.
Decluttering
We help neutralize the home regarding personal items or taste. Distractions are removed to allow buyers a blank canvas on which to project their own style. This is an important step in preparing your home for the market to ensure it shows at its very best the first time.
Professional Organizing
Inspired Organizing will lead you through a three step process to increase your level of organization and decrease your feelings of being overwhelmed. You will learn how to zero in on your goals for the space, identify your organizing style, and learn how to maintain your system. We can also help you establish a system for downsizing items, supply resources for distributing unwanted items and creative ideas for saving treasures. You need a space that functions for your lifestyle and Inspired Organizing can help you create an environment that brings you peace.
Unpacking & Packing Services
Our unpacking services help you to seamlessly settle into your new home by thoughtfully placing your belongings and arranging items in cabinets, closets, and drawers. All items are organized according to your instructions, making everything in your home easy to find.
Our packing services are tailored to those homeowners undergoing a renovation project. We ensure that items are organized and easily identifiable both during the storage and unpacking of your household. Our team will carefully label each container accordingly and provide a corresponding inventory list.
Full Service Design for Everyone
We will deliver a complete design for your space; from initial concept to installation to magazine-worthy finishing touches within your budget.
We work closely with trusted local contractors and vendors to complete every detail to create your dream space.
Our design process is hands-on and personalized to reflect your style and lifestyle needs. You can be as involved in the design process as you would like to be, and we will communicate appropriately throughout each design phase.
The biggest benefits of full-service interior design are the results and the time/energy you save getting there.
Residential and Commercial Interior Design Services
Testimonials
“She has a real gift. Her personality is a great balance of professionalism and fun and she immediately made me comfortable. She was able to quickly remove the over-whelm that I was feeling about getting our house ready to sell and gave great advice about what to change without it feeling like criticism. I highly recommend her services. - Ashley
We wanted our house to sell as quickly as possible. Our stager came in and gave us a list of very specific things to do and she selected the best paint color. She came back after painting, moved things around, and our house looked amazing!! The photographs really showed off it’s best features. Our house had two offers within 36 hours and sold at full asking price. Her input and expertise was invaluable in helping us to put our best foot forward right off the bat at listing.” - Laurie
Johanna Jaeck
ASP, IAHSP, Design Consultant
(269) 366-0558
jjaeck@mydistinguishedhome.com Peg
Dorgan
Market Ready Consultant (269) 370-0822
peg@mydistinguishedhome.com
They were wonderful to work with and talented at finding and using things already owned by the homeowner to stage the house for selling. They are reliable, friendly and they enjoy their work and the people they interact with. I was happy to have met them and would definitely recommend them to others looking to stage a home for selling.” - Isabelle
Thank you so much! It’s amazing what can be done with virtual staging! - Jane
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