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C6 . The second I took a position with airs Saturdays at Great Great Spaces It depends on the project I started flipping homes in Hazard: I grew up Yeah, in Sell This House How did the TV show come interior work? a top interior design firm. In three months, they said I was overqualified. But now Iʼm doing some more com- mercial work in New York. interiors? but there is more of a demand for a know, lot interior of s work. itʼ You the same as when I was studying architecture: All light, the form, color. same principles are applied. flipping houses there. We did shoot a show in Dallas about, I think, three or four years ago. it there? Atlanta and did very well. I was flip- ping about four homes a I year. start- ed staging them to sell quicker and I sold with the furniture I bought for it. That brought in a lot of people. I developed quite a following then but I needed more of a challenge. So I moved to New York. Texas. but Houston went mostly, to school for a year at Highland Park. Texas A&M. I workedcompany in Houston and then began for a landscape Sell This House For obvious reasons, Roger Hazard After finishing an episode, Hazard Let’s face Let’s it. There are two reasons Is that where you switched to more How was it to go from exteriors to Your career just seems to ascend. Then you moved Atlanta. to How was Dallas Voice: You actually grew You up Dallas in Voice: I studied landscape architecture at spoke about his and time how in Texas it led to him being an unexpected pio- neer in both television and even the real estate and design industries. 8:30 a.m on A&E. to watch would be learning how to stage your home to sell And better. in this market, anything helps. The first, well, that should be easy enough. has attracted a big gay following over the eight seasons the show has been on. A handsome, bearded musclebear is hard to resist. But get past the exteri- or (as difficult as that may be) and dis- cover an artist at heart. Dallas Voice • Voice Dallas

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talks up Texas, TV talks up Texas, Hazard Hazard assessment . Iʼm putting my Web site Design Hazards Yeah, buying furniture too big people use walls as an outline to place furniture. Rooms feel more open or larger when you have to walk around And furniture. you need a free wall for the eye to rest. right now? which together, should be about a couple more weeks. Iʼve been asked several times to write a book, but I wouldnʼt do one about staging. Iʼm more about mistakes in designing. Iʼd call it line. find? for a space. Be careful of covering up wallspace with furniture. So many Are you working on anything else Damn, that was gonna be my head- Are there common mistakes you People have a reaction do Ha! Is beige selling Dallasvoice.com the design of their home? get an emotional reaction to it. People react to furniture style and how s itʼ arranged. If s it ʼ arranged around the TV in the living room, it makes it feel like Mom and s Dadʼ house Know somehow. what I mean? Simple accessories and light- ing are good to work with, too. tant to color? your house? Do you only buy beige clothes? People to color and it doesnʼt make a room it smaller, makes it more interesting. nominated for Emmys. I was very proud. need to know on their own about 04.16.10 • What do you say to the person reluc- OK, so what are some things people

C7 Oh no. I was Great Great Spaces One of my clients that going about achieving a goal. You have to think backwards almost and also get the camera to catch what youʼre doing. wildfire. I was the first person to intro- duce home staging on TV and this was the only show of its kind to be about? worked in TV was bragging about me at a pitch meeting. Someone said, “I see About a TV a show.” month had passed before they called, then they sent a film crew came out and s thatʼ how the show started. I not pushed ready. cameramen out TV of is the very way. structured in I was excited to see how it took off like Were you ready for TV? Dallas Voice • Voice Dallas before and after comparisons. fill a shirt, he can fill a room with Roger Hazard not only knows how to just a few touches as he did in these