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A white living room with a brass chandelier, a grasscloth media wall, built-in shelves and a stone coffee table

Second Look

The Jeid Studio exterior in Waukee, with a dark brick storefront under white lap siding and wood-toned trim.

When a design problem becomes a real estate problem, call us.

Second Look gives agents a designer to bring into the conversation when a seller, a buyer or the property itself needs another set of eyes.

You keep the client relationship. We help solve the design problem.

Where we come in

“I need another reason for this seller to choose me.”

Bring something the next agent did not.

Second Look puts a designer in your corner during the listing process—one more resource you can offer your client without adding one more thing to your plate.

“My seller isn't listening, and I don't want to be the bad guy.”

Let the plan say it. We put the recommendations in writing, so the harder notes come from a designer instead of the person trying to win or keep the listing.

“My client keeps asking me design questions I shouldn't be answering.”

Send them to us.

Finishes. Furnishings. Paint colors. Layouts. The decisions that fall outside your lane are squarely in ours.

You do not need to spend Saturday at the tile store.

“I'm about to lose my seller on the buy side.”

Stay useful after the sign comes down. When the next house needs work, furnishings or another opinion before they commit, you have someone to bring into the conversation.

“Buyers can't see past what's in front of them.”

Show them what it could be. We put the possibility on paper, so a buyer can stop reacting to the kitchen that is there and start seeing the one that could be.

“My listing is stale and the only card I have left is a price cut.”

Change the conversation before you change the price.

We look at the house with fresh eyes—what may be getting in the way and whether a targeted change is worth making.

Sometimes the house needs something different.

Sometimes price really is the problem.

We will tell you that too.

“Staging costs a fortune and still looks generic.”

Not every house needs a truckload of rented furniture.

Sometimes the better answer is editing what is already there, rearranging it, adding selectively or solving only the rooms that need help.

Tell us what the house needs.

The address, where you are in the process and what is getting in the way.

That's enough for us to start.