BUILD Q2 2019

25 Q2 2019 BUILD RP180054 eginning life in early 2013 and based in Bletchley, Cranberryhome offers high-quality customer -focussed interior design, as well as home staging services, to home owners in the south of England. The firm’s em- phasis is on providing a cost-effective design that incorporates modern ideas and concepts with a traditional heritage, to create something eclectic, beautiful and unique. Since its inception, Cranberryhome has risen to the ranks of expert in the design industry and is now recognised as one of the leading design houses in the area. Firm founder, Design Director and ‘House doctor’, Hugo Fleming, can often be found at the ‘Ask an Expert’ stand at Grand Designs, and is regularly in demand for larger scale projects, refurbishments and project manage- ment. Further testament to Cranberryhome’s success is its ‘Best of Houzz’ award for customer service four years running and a ‘Best of Houzz’ award for Design in 2016, 2017 and 2018. With a love of travelling to find inspiration and design ideas, Hugo has always had a passion for designing and creating spaces from an early age. As a teenager in the late 1980s, Hugo was in demand with his landscape design, having handcrafted many large spaces for clients in mid Wales. Hugo finely tuned his cus- tomer service skills whilst working with Everest Ltd and quickly won awards for his salesmanship and customer service. The British Academy of Interior Design provided Hugo with his formal training and his home staging endeavours originated from the House Doctor venture. After many years of creating beautiful, creative and desirable rooms for friends and family, Hugo set up Cranberryhome to provide his premium skills and services, through a customer-focussed intuitive design company. The firm has gone from strength to strength in recent years, including launching its own range of luxury home fragrances in the form of candles and reed diffusers, available from its sister company, www.cranberryhomeboutique.co.uk. However, in 2018 the firm forged a strong partnership with prestigious estate agency, Fine and Country, and became its licensed design firm, instructed to professionally style its properties, for the Midlands region, covering offices from Northampton to Aylesbury and Cambridge to Bourton on the Water. Cranberryhome understands that preparing, packaging and presenting a home is crucial to its chances of selling quickly and for the best price, making it a less stressful process in the long Doctor in the House House Doctor and expert interior designer, Hugo Fleming of Cranberryhome, clinches the prestigious title of Best Small Interior Design Company 2018 in the Real Estate and Property Awards for its involvement in the refurbishment of Horn Lane. B run. The firm’s home staging, or property presentation, service is bespoke and helps clients prepare their home to give it more appeal to the widest market audience. Initially, Hugo provides a consultation, lasting around 2-3 hours, for house staging clients. During this, he will provide a full room- to-room evaluation of the property from a professional point of view, suggesting ways in which clients could make small or large cosmetic changes to influence and connect with buyers. As a profession, home stagers have little tricks that are used to send subliminal messages to potential buyers, and statistics show that a professionally styled home can achieve an increase of around 8-10% in value and will sell substantially quicker than a non- staged property.