Archive for July, 2008
Home Stager’s Guide to Updating Your Fireplace Bricks
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008BEFORE AFTER
If you have a fireplace, it is almost certainly the focal point of your room. It follows, then, that this important feature should add to the beauty of your living space, not detract from it. A relatively quick and easy way to achieve this is to paint your fireplace bricks.
(Home staging tip: establish either the [...]
Home Staging on Trend to Make the Sale
Monday, July 28th, 2008I wrote last week about “What Today’s Buyer’s Want.” It’s interesting information. But if I don’t use it in my staging to help attract buyers, it’s just that - interesting information. As a professional Marin stager, I not only have to stay on top of trends, but also be able to apply what I learn to the [...]
What Today’s Buyers Want: Part 2
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Picking up where I left off in my last post, I want to share more “Trends to Watch in 2008″ regarding what buyers want in a home. Again, I learned this information from Christine Rae, the author of Home Staging for Dummies and the keynote speaker at last week’s first annual San Francisco Bay Area Home [...]
What Today’s Buyers Want: Part 1
Monday, July 21st, 2008This week I attended the SF Bay Area’s First Annual Staging Expo in Dublin. The keynote speaker was Christine Rae, the author of Home Staging for Dummies (hopefully the book’s title does not diminish her expertise and the great content within the book). The topic was “Trends in the Home Staging and Real Estate Industries.”
A major [...]
Home Stager’s Guide to Curb Appeal: Think Before You Paint
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
BEFORE and AFTER:
From drab to fab!
Painting your home’s exterior is one of the fastest and most dramatic ways to freshen your house. But if you are going to invest the money, whether or not for home staging purposes, why not strive not only to clean up your home, but also update its look? Did [...]