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“Deborah Norman’s keen eye and knack for styling have created a demand for services — home staging and re-design — with help from business partner Karen von Ruffer Hills”

“Due to the booming short-term rental market, partners Deborah Norman and Karen von Ruffer Hills, often collaborate with investors, who utilize their design services to stage and style their properties to attract ideal tenants.”

“They’ll spruce up your short-term rental to make it more appealing to renters…”

“Working with what you already own, they redesign — rearrange your furniture, artwork, and accessories to make your home more functional and give your space an entirely new look.”

“The disbursement of the estate was managed and thoughtfully allocated by Deborah Norman and Karen von Ruffer Hills from Grand & Water Re-Design (a redesign and staging spinoff of Grand & Water Antiques) which included a vast collection of rare and unique books, decorative arts and antique furniture.”

What people are saying:

  • Grand and Water Re-design are must go to stagers for sellers and realtors. Deborah and Karen are talented designers, they turned a great property into something magical! Multiple offers the first day of showings and the property sold above listing price. I highly recommend them and look forward to working with them in the future.

    — Elizabeth Johnstone, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

  • I would gladly recommend your services. We are still enjoying our living room (that you re-designed for us). It has had a big positive impact on our time at home and together. The joy it has brought us inspired us to undertake the renovation of our kitchen and Master BR/bath last year.

    – GV, Mystic resident

  • I have been selling real estate since 1971—and thinking I was the expert—I had long hesitated to hire someone to stage a house to help me sell it. But I decided to reach out to Deborah from Grand & Water and her staging partner, Karen, to help. No harm in trying, right? In a few short days and minimal amount of $$ (I thought), they transformed the main living areas in a modern house that just wasn’t showing well—and within ONE week we went under contract with a buyer. CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH DEBORAH AND KAREN!

    — Lucia T. Johnstone, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

  • Karen and Deborah did an absolutely fantastic job getting my house and everything in it ready for sale, and on an outrageous deadline at that. It was an incredibly complex task with many components and they handled everything with the utmost efficiency, expediency, grace and compassion. I could not have gotten through it without them, they are the absolute best.

    — CK, Stonington resident

  • I could not be more pleased with the experience I had in working with Deborah and Karen. While I was selling a home in an estate, they oversaw the disbursement of an extensive collection of personal property including high value/auction-able items. They also allocated personal legacies to the appropriate non-profits and dealt with various donations too. They did this all without interfering with showings making my job easier. What’s more, the items that were left behind were arranged in a way to create a warm and inviting environment for the new home owners.

    — Henri Gourd, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

  • We will be in awe for days to come of the extraordinary energy and creativity your team brought to our home yesterday. From the moment you arrived the ideas were flowing and implemented within seconds. Who will ever forget the wave in the dining room rug as it was moved to the perfect spot…not an inch off. If we had to pick a favorite change, we decided it was the new location for Gray Park’s painting. Of course that just happened to involve moving a rather large piece of furniture. Nothing was impossible!

    – WD, Stonington resident