| Centering this furniture grouping and adding a few pillows and accessories made this screen porch a little more inviting, even in the winter! |
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May 2023 Staging Tip of the Month
| Don’t have the time or money to replace dated carpet? First, declutter. The carpet is enough of a distraction that all other distractions need to be minimized. Second, make all of the other surfaces and large furniture pieces as nuetral as possible. Here the seller was willing to remove wallpaper and bring in some nuetral furniture. Third, use modern accessories in the carpet color. In both of these rooms, beautiful throw pillows did the trick. |
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April 2023 Staging Tip of the Month
| If you’re considering selling, always paint red walls neutral. Red is a very polarizing color and who wants to eliminate a large portion of buyers from enjoying a room? |
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April 2023 Featured Before & After
| Featured Before & AfterAdding rental furniture to this long living room gave buyers a better idea of how it could be layed out. |
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May 2022 Featured Before & After
| In this example, we reused the dining furniture and piano, but replaced everything else to create an updated first impression room. |
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April 2022 Staging Tip of the Month
| Don’t have time to remove wallpaper before selling? In this bedroom, we toned down the wallpaper with solid color bedding and artwork with a lot of white. |
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March 2022 Staging Tip of the Month
| I often recommend removing wall shelves when selling because not every buyer’s furniture layouts will work with existing locations of shelves. But if you don’t have time to patch and paint the holes, it’s important to make the shelves look good. In these two examples, we added art in the gaps the shelves created and made sure they were well accessorized. |
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March 2022 Featured Before & After
| Replacing dated furniture with staging furniture is often the best option for a room. |
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February 2022 Staging Tip of the Month
| The underlying key to staging is “balance”, but that is a very hard thing to get without years of practice. I thought I would share a couple rooms and show how we balanced them. Every room is different, so there are no set rules. But this might give you an idea of how to look at your rooms a little differently. In this first set of photos, you’ll see a plant and chair on each side of the fireplace which is making that side of the room very busy (and therefore too heavy). Off to the right you see a big blank wall which is too light. For staging, we removed one of the plants to open up the fireplace, added a large piece of art to the wall and then shifted the lamp to the other side of the buffet to move some weight to that side of the room. A few light pillows to the sofa and light accessories to the buffet lightened up those areas of the room. |
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| This one is a little easier to explain as it’s quite obvious that the right side of the room was much heavier than the left. We balanced it out by adding a dark chair to the left for weight and sticks and art for height. To lighten the right side, we added a lamp and light pillows. |
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| This room was too heavy on the bottom. A very easy fix was adding light throw pillows to make the sofa lighter and adding art to bring the eye up. |
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February 2022 Featured Before & After
| A very soft and inviting bedroom we staged….. |
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