Make your house into a home.

Attract buyers & sell quickly.

DesignsMaura is here for you.

Designing thoughtful, livable spaces.

DesignsMaura is a home staging and home styling service that gives you the MAXIMUM RETURN when selling your home and gives you the style and comfortable living space you deserve. You will see our work, and the variety that we offer through the below before and after pictures.

SERVICES PROVIDED

Home Styling & Design

FOR SELLING OR LIVING THE WAY YOU DESERVE

Home Staging & Layouts

GET THE MAXIMUM RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT

Decorating & Aesthetics

COLOR CONSULTATION & MORE TO BEAUTIFY SPACES

Shopping & More

NEED A HAND? READY TO DOWNSIZE? WE CAN HELP!

About Maura

Maura has loved home design since playing very young with dollhouses and rearranging doll furniture pieces, drawing floor plans to get creative solutions. Later on, she would focus on magazines to get the latest and newest ideas. She would help friends and family with design dilemmas. After graduating from Gallaudet University, she worked in the human services and teaching field for years. She and her husband Jeff have raised two children. Design, decorating,DIYs and buying/selling homes continue to be her passion today. Her business, designsMaura started 22 years ago to make silk scarves , artworks and greeting cards. She recently received her Home Staging certificate from the New York Institute of Art and Design. Today designsMaura with its original services has added home staging and decorating services.

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Why Choose Us?

Staging Gives You the Highest Maximum Return on Your Home. DesignsMaura is here to make sure you get that return. Serving Rockville, Silver Spring, Olney, Bethesda, Gaithersburg and Potomac, Maryland including Rehoboth and Bethany Beach, Delaware.

Text: 202-860-7802

Projects

Silver Spring Dining Room: Staging

BEFORE: Room is in good condition. It needs to be decluttered and have decor that will not distract buyers. To be staged.

AFTER: Decluttered and change wall decor. There is feeling of more space and calm. Buyers now can see the space and the patio door.

Rockville Teen Bedroom: Redesign

BEFORE: Client wanted a new look with same furniture and to showcase valued items. To be styled for living.

AFTER: Rearranging furniture and displaying items on walls. Room feels more cozy.

North Bethesda Condo Dining Area: Redesign

BEFORE: Client wanted a welcoming feel in dining area. To be styled.

AFTER: Wall decor is added, table gets updated, bookshelf is decluttered and personal items are added.

Silver Spring Living Room: Staging

BEFORE:Furniture and items were mostly on one side of room, leaving bare spaces on opposite side of room, need to declutter and remove items. To be staged.

AFTER: Rearranging furniture and clearing out clutter, more floor space with additional reading area. Chair was added from another room. Buyers now can see wood floors and feel the expanded space.

Aspen Hill Bedroom: Staging

BEFORE: Room used for storage, this is the fourth bedroom in the house. To be staged.

AFTER: Adding light and airy decor makes the room look bigger and buyers now can see possibilities for the room to be an office, a den or a bedroom.

NW Washington DC Home: Color Consult

BEFORE: Plain walls. Client requested color consultation.

AFTER: Based on clients ‘ lifestyle and functions/ locations of rooms, colors for each room were recommended to clients.

Pricing

for consultations

Staging & Redesign

$400

per consult

New Design

$1,200

per consult

Color Consult

$375

per consult

Personal Shopper

$400

per day

for projects*

*CONSULTATION FEE WAIVED!

Staging

$800+

dependent on house size & sale price

Redesign

$700

for first room, +$200 per additional room(s)

New Design

TBD

dependent on project scope

Consult / Shopping

$500

per room (for first two rooms)

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