Talks Workshops Speaking

Julea’s workshops are fast paced, user friendly and fun. Her expertise in “all things home”, is perfect for those who want to celebrate home. Julea’s lifestyle, interior, and home staging advice, tips and insight will make any home environment the envy of the neighborhood.

HOME STAGING - PACKAGE YOUR HOME TO SELL

Today's homeowner has to pull out all the stops to ready and prepare their home for sale - especially in this competitive market! This comprehensive workshop will help you create the perfect package with professional insight, and tried and true home staging solutions. You only get one chance to make a great 1st impression - this workshop will help you wrap and beautifully package your home.

This is a great class for Real Estate offices to host for the general public.

Holiday Refresh Your Home

Just in time for the holidays, let’s refresh your place!  This is a fun and fast-paced workshop on quick and easy decorating with your existing things. Julea teaches you the rules for decorating, corralling collections, and repurposing your old stuff in a fresh new way.  Learn how to arrange your furniture for entertaining and style your space for the holiday season.  Along with insight on favorite hidden shopping haunts, you'll learn how to make smart purchases. If you are hosting this year, this is the workshop for you!

HOME Decorating Dilemmas Solved!

Start off the New Year with a beautiful home and your home decorating dilemmas solved!  From furniture arrangement, home updates, to finding the perfect color choice,  join design expert Julea Joseph as she picks attendees home's pictures and offers suggestions and tips on solving their interior design woes.. This interactive workshop will help any homeowner make their space more beautiful, functional and updated. 

Submissions: Please take 6 pictures of the room. 1 from each corner of the room, and then 2 straight on from each side of the room. Write a quick description of the space and what your dilemma is.   Send to Julea@Julea.com.   

QUICK & EASY DECORATING - USE WHAT YOU HAVE

Sass up your place!  This fun and fast-paced workshop on quick and easy decorating with existing things. Julea teaches you the rules for decorating, corralling collections and re-purposing your old stuff.  Along with insight on favorite hidden haunts, you'll learn how to make smart purchases.

ORLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY April 2nd 2025 6:30 PM 14921 S Ravinia Ave, Orland Park, IL 60462 (708) 428-5100

5 EASY (DECORATING) PIECES

Easy decorating is not out of your reach with these 5 accessories that will make your home stylish for any season, holiday or entertaining event. 

ACCESSORIZING YOUR HOME

Are you accessory challenged? Get designer tips and tricks for creating a beautiful room, understand the 11 essential elements to every room and use existing treasures. Do you fall in love with accessories while shopping, only to bring them home and not know what to do with them? Are rooms "not finished" because you can not group pieces and create a style stamp on your space? Break your shopping and accessorizing fear! Learn how to shop and where to shop for great pieces and how to pull them together.

ACCESSORIZING FOR HOME STAGING

Get styling and home staging tips and tricks for creating a beautiful room. Learn the key ingredients that every room needs to make a statement. Understand how to weed through existing home props in an occupied house to to set the stage in key, selling spaces. Learn how to shop and designer favorite shopping haunts for great accessories to up-style a home for today’s discriminating buyer.

SETTING THE STAGE FOR OUTDOOR ENTERTAINING

Expand your space of your home with outdoor rooms. Learn how to set the stage for outdoor living. Interior Stylist, Julea Joseph simplifies the process of outdoor gatherings.  Learn ways to get creative outdoors and celebrate your backyard space; whether hosting a gathering under the stars, getting cozy on a summer evening, or family dining - al fresco style!

SELL OR DWELL: HOME CURB APPEAL ESSENTIALS

Do you want to step up your home's curb appeal? Do you struggle with making your home's exterior more appealing? Send us a photo of your home! Join Home Staging and Design expert Julea Joseph as she picks attendees home's pictures and offers suggestions and tips on improving curb appeal. This interactive workshop will help any homeowner make their home's exterior more desirable - whether selling or dwelling! 

HOME DECOR / ACCESSORY SWAP

Julea Joseph will teach you to reinvent and re-purpose your old accessories and learn how to swap/shop for fun new pieces. Along with the latest looks, learn about Julea’s “good bone” accessory basics that can instantly transform a space from” Blah and Predictable” to “Fabulous and Unexpected”. Then get ready for the accessory swap…. bring up to 3 items that you use for home decorations {think mirrors, frames, bowls, plants, entry carpets, candles & more}. Add a label with a short description to each one and attach using tape or string. Max. 25 participants. 

COLOR YOUR HOME

Color is the backbone for a home's great style - Are you ready for a color reinvention? This workshop will explain the basic rules of creating a fabulous color palette for your home, tips on how to create personality & flair within a room, and an interior stylist view on the hottest color trends.

SEASONAL DECORATING WORKSHOP

Create fresh and new seasonal updates in your home just in time for the holidays. Along with the latest looks, learn about Julea's "good bone" accessory basics that can instantly transform a space from Blah and Predictable to Fabulous and Unexpected. Dig out and showcase family heirlooms, shop for fun new pieces, create a beautiful table and more! 

THE GREAT HOSTESS - HOSTING WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

Your home is truly your haven - Celebrate and really enjoy your home by making the most of it with insight and tips from Interior Stylist, Julea Joseph. Don't buy new when you can use what you already have!!  Gain insight on how to successfully entertain family and friends with style and flair, receive quick tip on how to "pull- it all together," using your stuff, and how to make your home gorgeous and chic.