Home Design/Staging Ideas
Marin Home Stager’s Guide to Staging Fireplaces
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Fireplaces are a great selling point, so if your house has one or more, you’re off to a good start in terms of creating an inviting atmosphere for potential buyers. Fireplaces are usually the natural focal point in any room, so you’ll want to make sure you give them lots of attention when staging the [...]
Marin Home Staging Tip: Play Up the Focal Point in Every Room
Sunday, January 4th, 2009When preparing your house for market, it’s important to make every room stand out in the most postive way. You want buyers to say “wow!” as they go from room to room. An excellent way to create beautiful, well-laid-out rooms is to make sure every room has a focal point - and if it doesn’t, [...]
How to Stage your Home During the Holidays
Sunday, December 7th, 2008To decorate or not to decorate? That is the question facing homeowners whose properties are on the market during the month of December. The simple answer is yes, you can deck the halls - but with certain guidelines to keep your house buyer-friendly.
In whatever month you list your house, the most important thing you can [...]
Marin Stager’s Guide: Baskets as Wall Art, Part 2
Saturday, September 13th, 2008I’m always working on a budget while carrying out a home staging project. I want to maximize every dollar spent so the house can look really impressive when I’m done. To that end, I need to be creative about the design.
In home staging, as in home decorating, not every wall needs a piece of artwork. But [...]
Big Wall, Small Picture: A Marin Home Stager’s Solution
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008It’s a common challenge, both in home staging and at home. You have a wall that needs artwork, but the surface area is just too large for one standard-sized picture (say, 2′x3′). If a picture is too small (visually) for the space, it doesn’t look right just “floating” there.
What are the solutions? The most obvious is to buy [...]
A Marin Home Stager’s Guide to Choosing Room Colors
Thursday, August 21st, 2008If you’re trying to design a room and are stumped by what colors to use, here’s some advice: find an object you really like and it let it serve as the building block of your room. This object could be a throw pillow, a rug, a tapestry, a painting, etc. Something colorful is best. Then, [...]
Baskets as Wall Art - A Home Staging Trick
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008When you have a large, blank wall, filling it with a picture is great, but it can be expensive to buy a big piece of art. A clever alternative is to hang baskets in a display. It’s relatively inexpensive and creates a great focal point in any room.
I used this idea in a recent home staging project. The [...]