We sold our home in Bayview last summer above asking price, in large part thanks to the incredible staging that Stephanie Vigil put together. Our home was a very unusual cottage-style single family house around 900 sqft that we were using as a 2 bed, sleeping in our finished attic. While we made it work for our family, I was really worried that the space would look tiny once all our furniture was out. When Stephanie came through and staged the home, I had my breath taken away by just how beautifully represented it was. We had put a lot of time, sweat, and money in getting it fixed over 5 years of living there, and her touch made it look just so warm and inviting. Thank you Stephanie!! read more

I am a general contractor in San Francisco and have worked with Mise En Place on various kitchen and bathroom remodels and staging projects. Stephanie is a talented interior designer and adept at finding tasteful solutions for the City's often cramped and quirky floor plans. I have seen her designs take aesthetically dated, dysfunctional rooms and transform them into elegant and efficient spaces. In addition to traditional interior design work, Stephanie and her team are among San Francisco's most in-demand staging companies. They bring a keen, creative eye to each project, dedicating thoughtful attention to help every listing achieve its maximum potential and return. Their sense of color, spacing, and great warehouse inventory are unsurpassed. I would not hesitate to work with, or hire them in the future. read more

Staged homes typically sell quicker and for more money than vacant (or non-staged) homes. The goal is to show off the architectural details of your home. I listed a 2 bedroom/2 bath condo in Pacific Heights for clients that were relocating down to southern California after 20 years. The clients had a tight time frame, and wanted a full service Realtor who would represent their property, along with packing, moving, painting, cleaning, staging, prior to having the house hit the market. One of my best decisions was to introduce Stephanie to my client, and we had a timeline that worked and resulted in their property selling all-cash, over asking, just 3 weeks on the market. I am so pleased to have worked with Stephanie Vigil, as she went the 'extra mile' with impressive results. Stephanie was able to coordinate packers, movers, as well as consignment, since my clients had nice furniture and were downsizing. She hired a great deep-clean maid service, so the condo was spotless. She personally brought fresh flowers in weekly prior to Open House and Broker Tour, and was a true pleasure to do business with. I was very proud of this listing, as her taste showed elegance and great taste. You can see the "After" in the photos here: http://2200pacificavenue.com Mise En Place is my #1 Go-To for staging, and continues to be. I will also add that I did not, nor does Stephanie mention a 'cut' (as some others mention in their negative reviews.) She and I work hard for our clients, and our goal is client satisfaction, and selling the home for top price, not receiving a cut. read more

Just wanting to update my 2015 review - Stephanie Vigil has been our "go to" stager for over 10 years, now. Time and time again her expertise and fun, eclectic staging designs have brought tremendous results for our clients. I can't compliment her enough. It begins and ends with Stephanie Vigil herself, sweet and personable as can be, with a "can do" and "want to please" attitude. I don't know how she does it. She is constantly in demand and the pressure must be great. There was a time when Stephanie's "right hand" person left for another job, and I know things must have been doubly difficult, but I've never seen her lose her cool or patience. She also had a crew that was not as talented nor responsible, and they're thankfully gone, now. We can rely on Stephanie, and that's worth a bundle. Creative and talented plus good-humored and amiable = a winning combination in my book. I don't know who wouldn't get along with her, but I probably wouldn't want to do business with them. read more

I have been using Stephanie for a few years and have been extremely happy with her services. She can and will do a full or partial staging based on need and her inventory is contemporary and of good quality. Her prices are reasonable and her crew is great! Recently I had a very challenging listing which required changing some items my client not satisfied with and they were quick and gracious with their response. In addition to staging they provide home prep services (repairs, painting etc.) if necessary. Selling a home is typically a stressful event, but Steph and her crew make the staging process seamless, and the return on your investment is more than worth it! read more

We have used Stephanie, Kylea and the crew at Mise En Place now for over 5-6 years for dozens of staging jobs. They are simply the best, the most creative and frankly quite cost effective. So easy to work with and they always deliver a terrific end product and right on time. Our listings with them consistently sell well over asking and the buyer traffic always comment on the staging. I've also used them personally for my own home decor and also found Mise En Place to be top notch. I will continue to use Mise En Place and would not hesitate to recommend them! read more

i highly recommend this company, and stephanie, for having staged my condo so beautifully, that it sold within 48 hours of the first showing! and at a record price for my building! she was professional, creative, friendly, and thorough, she even helped me get rid of furniture i did not want to take with me! thank you, stephanie!!! read more

The staging concept has yet to be unveiled and tested with potential buyer interest but Stephanie's implementation and finishing work will soon be apparent, so 5 stars right now (July 18, 2015), and then a fair assessment when sold in a few weeks. read more

Steph is my "go to gal" for staging. Her inventory is fresh and interesting and she really "gets" the vibe of my listings. I especially enjoy the way she interacts with my clients. Her enthusiasm is infectious and you can't help but become engaged in the process. An added, essential bonus to her services is a responsive follow-through and even temper. No request is ignored and she is Johnny-on-the-Spot when it comes to getting a light bulb changed or painting the mailbox at the last minute. My only reason to not recommend her is that I want to keep her all to myself! read more

From the get go I felt like I had the STAR team listening and working hard to execute on the repairs, upgrades and staging of our home. As an architect / interior designer and small business owner - Stephanie Vigil and her team executed on point. It's all about communication.. and in the end all about trade-offs in realizing the goals of a project. We felt the house presented beautifully. Everything was completed on time and within $100 of the budget. In spite of SF being a sellers market - I felt her talent and project management skills, contractor partner and her team helped us realize a killer sale price. Hard to understand some of the negative reviews. Difficult, clueless, entitled folks? I give Mise En Place an A+++ rating. I'd work with her again in a heart-beat. Jeff read more

What a disaster! Stephanie Vigil and her incompetent employees over-promised, under-delivered, and ended up pulling out of her contract delaying my house coming to market by more than a week as I had to scramble to find a stager to save my listing. She said all the right things (e.g., we'll do whatever it takes to make you happy; word of mouth is my bread and butter; if we don't have what we need we'll go go shopping), but either she was over-extended on other projects and was unwilling to communicate that or she really can't run a business. Either way, she totally screwed up. Her head stager (Kalieh) failed to show to our first meeting (no text, phone call, or email), arrived 30 minutes after the second scheduled appointment, wore the exact same clothes to my home the following day, and then proceeded to fill my house with a bunch of crap that looked like it was hauled off the street on UC Berkeley's move-out day in 1984. Sun faded and stained, forest green velour couch, acrylic side tables, gigantic (like a japanese bath) white plastic planter from a mall food court complete with black scuff marks and a fake tree. The scale of everything was off, like the house was decorated for little people. Now, I'm know I'm no designer. I watch HGTV (a lot), but I only learned what a Parsons chair is last week (it has stick legs and fully upholstered back and seat - no embellishments or curves). I do know enough to know that the eclectic can be good, but a fully themed mid-century modern (Mad Men) dining room next to a fully themed 1980's living room (Three Men and a Baby) does not work - most especially not in a 1910's bungalow with much of the original detailing! There is a difference between throw back and way back. Someone got this furniture and decor from way back. All of it was short, squat, outdated, and clearly old (not retro) - except the carpet, which wasn't a throw rug - it was a large poop brown carpet remnant. The designer put a St. Marcellin cheese dish repurposed as a tea light candle holder in the bath room - you'll never want to dip bread in that again. She put a royal blue chevron stripe rug under a day bed with bright yellow leaf print (yes, 80's again) comforter topped sun-faded red and orange pillows all in a room with latte colored walls. PS, this was a queen mattress placed on a frame for a single bed. If someone had put a knee on that to look out the window, the mattress would have flipped. If a child had jumped on it, I could have had a very nasty lawsuit on my hands. The dining room - a little boozy with a wine rack on our built in, a silver cocktail set next to a bottle of $5.99 Cook's sparkling wine with two champagne glasses - plus 4 books on wine and spirits and the vase full of old corks. It is messaging inappropriately, and that Cook's was brought to us by a house guest as a joke. The designer missed the punch line. I could really go on. I haven't even mentioned the black metal shelving in master bed or raggedy wicker tissue box in the master bath. The thing is this: Stephanie talks good game. She conducts herself like a professional, but her words are completely meaningless. I did a walk-through with her, and she said everything right, everything I wanted to hear. I explained our schedule (as did my realtor), I told her that the deck furniture and the kitchen counter stools were staying. I told her who I thought our target buyer was. The following day, her stager shows up with cheap, tacky furniture for the deck and crappy little metal bar stools to replace our lovely upholstered counter stools. She didn't listen. She didn't communicate. She brought absolute garbage into my home. She caused us to be late to the market. And, she was more expensive than the stager who ended up saving our hides. The sole good thing I can say is that Stephanie refunded my deposit in full. I'm sure other people will post positive reviews, but you have to think - do you want to risk the sale of your home? Mise en Place was a total disaster! read more

OMG....What a nightmare this lady and her company were!!!! Not sure were to start. She was hired by our agent and he highly recommend her. Later I found out, it was because they were splitting the staging fee. So how it works is that the agent charges the home seller between $7700-10K of which they each get half. We were charged $10K for staging of which $3K was for painting and so we brought in our own painter who painted at a fraction of the cost. The paint was chosen by, Mise En Place Interior Design. It was the ugliest paint I have ever seen and it made our home look like shit! Later I found out the reason they pick that color is because it is the color of puddie - sorry for spelling....I mean the stuff you fill the wholes in the walls with. The reason they pick that color is so that they don't have to repaint. They just simply fill the wholes In the wall with the puddie and they are done! Now as for the furniture they brought into our multi-million dollar home in SF was a joke. They brought in a broken black futon looking couch with broken legs and filthy all over. The rest of the stuff looked like it was picked up in some kind of garage sale or junk yard. Every piece of furniture was broken. For art, they brought In two huge pieces of which it covered the entire wall. The pictures were of headless men. One on each side of the wall. They were facing each other. This made our living area look like a little box. When I saw the finished staging, I turned to my husband and said there is no way on hell our home will sell. It had never looked so bad. I wouldn't even buy it and I love our home. I advised our agent that I want everything to be removed for it literally looked like a junk yard. Being the savvy salesman he was, he convinced us that the house goes live tomorrow and we don't have time to delay for another week or two for the market is hot now. He said he will pick up the cost of the staging when the home sales and if it doesn't we will split 3 ways. Guess what? It didn't sell. So now we were faced to pay 1/3 for junk. But the interesting thing is that Stefanie the owner would not except 1/3. She wanted not only the $7K, but she increased her price to $7700. And she said that she will not take money from her friend the agent and that we are responsible for the entire amt. She even went as far as holding our empty home hostage! What do I mean by that? She refused to remove her stuff until we pay in full. She did this, because she knew we had new tenants moving in. Did we pay? of course we didn't pay her. Legally the contract was between her and the agent. So this is what you can expect from this agency. Inflated prices, broken/dirty furniture, and refusal of removal of her junk. I think this place a total scam. I would stay clear of them. read more

Very happy with how Stephanie and her crew staged our home. She was able to use some of our items to make sure there was a level of livability for us and our dog. And she took great care to advise us on updates to make in the process. She is talented and easy to work with. read more