Welcome to the Nashville IAHSP® Regional Chapter! Join us at our upcoming meetings for informative educational topics, great speakers and presentations, and great comradery. Check out the events calender for more information. Congratulations to our new 2012 Nashville IAHSP Officers! 
From left to right, our new 2012 Officers - Heather Kraemer-Stephens (Secretary, Joan Greene (President, Cathy Hardaway (Treasurer), and Suzanne Haneline (Affiliate Membership Chair). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It`s that time of year - WORLD WIDE STAGING SERVICE WEEK PROJECTS! This year our Chapter is doing 2 Service Projects. The first is working with A HOME IN HIS NAME (through Glade Baptist Church). We will be providing time, talent, furnishings and decor for a newly rebuilt house for a family of three women. Thanks to funds and donations provided by the A Home in His Name mission and Aaron`s Rentals we have purchased items and will be moving the new things in, decorating, and making a new home for these three women. Our second project is working with the American Red Cross - Operation Home Base. We will be helping a military family who`s father is currently deployed overseas. We will be concentrating on revamping the bedrooms of the 3 children, along with some other parts of the home. AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS! OPERATION HOME BASE (with American Red Cross) Working in conjuntion with the Operation Home Base project run by the American Red Cross, we were honored to work with a very deserving family of one of our U.S. Army soldiers in providing a more functional space for the family to enjoy. The father is frequently deployed for long periods of time so the mother is on her own for much of the year, raising 3 kids. She asked if we could change the rooms for her kids. Per her request, we moved the teenage daughter downstairs to what had been the guest room, moved the 3 year old daughter out of the room she had been sharing with her twin brother, and then let him have his own room. Each of the 3 kids now have their own room, with their own personality. We even spruced up the downstairs family room. Affiliate member Aaron`s graciously donated a new flat screen TV and Affiliate ProCare graciously cleaned not only all the carpets, but even the upholstery on the furniture. Between these Affiliates, Chapter members, Red Cross volunteers, and friends and neighbors, we were so pleased to be able to help this family. Here`s our group of some of those who helped on site  
Some photos below of the teen girls new room - BEFORE AFTER  
 
 
The 3 year old boy`s room Before & After pictures below  
 
 
The new bedroom for the 3 year old girl - Before & After  
 
 
The downstairs family room - Before & After  
 
 
Photos of the work in progress with great participants!   
  
  
  
Thanks so much to all those who planned, worked on site, donated, and suppported us on this wonderful project. Speical thank-yous to Project Chairs Joan Greene and Cathy Hardaway, and committee members Nancy Mathews and Sandy Laszewski, and Jim Bardwell of ProCare, along with Aaron`s. A HOME IN HIS NAME(with Glade Baptist Church) Glade Baptist Church and their mission A Home in His Name rebuilt from the ground up this family home for 3 women, and with donations from them, our own members and affiliate members and a lot of planning and work on site we were able to make this new house into a wonderful home. Special thanks to Aaron`s Rental and Kirkland`s Floor to Ceiling for their generous donations to the mission and to each of our members who donated items, time and talent. When the homeowners returned at the end of the day there were tears all round from all of us. What a wonderful feeling to help this family! 
Nashville IAHSP Group  
Living room before Living room after  
 
Kitchen before Kitchen after  
Bathroom before Bathroom after  
Bedroom 1 before Bedroom 1 after  
 
Bedroom 2 before Bedroom 2 after  
 
 
Our Project Plannng People -Barbara Webb (Chair), Tamiko Woods, & Kathy Fix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wonderful and informative 2011 Realtor Roundtable Panel and Affiliate Appreciation - April 2, 2011 Thanks to our Realtor Panelists who shared so much information with us about our current local real estate market and tips about how ASPs and Realtors can better work together! Also, thanks to all our Affiliate Members who help support our Chapter through their membership and special member discounts and programs. 
Our Realtor Panel - left to right - Debbie Hewitt (Lifestyle Realty), Carol Oldham (Keller Williams Green Hills), Mary Brown (Century 21 Dawson & Associates), Judy Felts (Remax Elite Brentwood) and Chapter President, Kathy Fix  Affiliate Members who attended - left to right - Jim Bardwell of ProCare, Judy Meadows of StorPlace, Angie Richardson of Kirkland Floor to Ceiling, and Jim Gibbs of Contractors Carpet, and our Affiliate Membership Chair - Mary Forsythe. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW 2011 BOARD President - Kathy Fix, Secretary - Karen Walters, Treasurer - Sandy Ayers, Affiliate Membership Chair - Mary Forsythe 
OUR 2011 NASHVILLE IAHSP BOARD (from left to right - Mary Forsythe (Affiliate Membership Chair), Kathy Fix (President), Karen Walters (Secretary), Sandy Ayers (Treasurer) ************************************** 
Our February 2011 meeting - (from left to right, front row - Barbara Webb and Sandy Ayers, back row, Mary Forsythe, Kathy Fix, Karen Walters, and Sandy Laszewski - not shown, Tamara Fenner, John Browning, and our speaker, Ken Ivey)  
The Nashville IAHSP® Regional Chapter (NIRC) is a Regional Chapter of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals (IAHSP®). The Nashville IRC was founded in 2005 by a growing group of Accredited Staging Professionals® to increase awareness of the benefits of Home Staging, provide a forum for on going professional development, and to reach out to the community through service projects. Our Chapter has several key goals: - To increase awareness of Home Staging and Accredited Staging Professionals® (ASPs®).
- To promote Home Staging in the community, specifically the great value and high returns that Accredited Staging Professionals® deliver.
To elevate the caliber of Home Staging throughout Middle Tennessee. The professional education Accredited Staging Professionals® receives does not end with their initial training. Ongoing professional development and recurring training are a core component of our Chapter’s mission, as together we expand the range and quality of services our individual members bring to the community. - To be a visible, contributing member in the community of Real Estate Professionals, through outreach, alliances and opening our affiliate membership doors to associated businesses.
- To provide opportunities for ASP® Stagers, ASP® Real Estate Agents and other affiliated service providers to network and develop business relationships.
- To give back to our community through community service opportunities.
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2010 WORLD WIDE STAGING SERVICE WEEK® PROJECT  ![]()
Our Group - front row. left to right - Sandy Ayers, Kathy Fix, Karen Decker; back row, left to right - Mary Forsythe, Will Peyton, Bev Burger, Lisa Hart What a wonderful time and project for this year`s community service project! Our Chapter worked with a recent recipient of a Habitat for Humanity home to turn her new house into a wonderful inviting home. We concentrated on her living room/dining room space and her hall bathroom. Thanks so much to all those ASP members who helped out, both in the planning and executing, and all those who donated items and time. We had some great furniture and decor donated and the homeowner purchased a few items herself. Enjoy some of the before and after pictures below. LIVING ROOM Before After  
 
 
 
HALL BATHROOM Before After   DINING AREA Before After  
New Desk  
After we finished - Kathy Fix, Chapter President; Meg - our recipient; and Will Peyton, Chapter Pres. Elect & WWSSW Chairman Joint IAHSP® meeting - Nashville & Memphis Chapters on June 10, 2010 What a great time we all had when our two Chapters got together in Jackson, TN for a joint meeting! There were 17 of us sharing ideas, stories, and comradery, not to mention a great meal. Thanks to Gary Woodward, ASP in Jackson, for making all the arrangements for us. We hope to make it an annual event! 
Dinner With Barb Schwarz March 13, 2010 
We were so excited to be able to share dinner with Barb (and Kirk) when she visited Nashville in March, 2010. It was wonderful to hear of future plans, share ideas, and enjoy her enthusiasm and support for all of us. |
