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preparing your home for the market: 5 Easy Home Staging Tips to Sell Your Home - 05/02/11 10:58 AM
The endless chatter from TV Interior Decorating opinions has made Home Staging sometimes seem like a quagmire of misinforms and product placement ads.  The process of Home Staging doesn't have to reach deep into your pockets, nor so time consuming it's out of your reach if you seek the expertise of a professional Home Stager.  A well oiled pro will streamline not only your budget, but also save you your most important resource - time.  Here are some simple tips on prepping your home for sale can make the process much easier. 
•1.      Remove YOU From the Home Staging Process:  The … (11 comments)

preparing your home for the market: Reiterating the Model Home Effect in Home Staging Tactics in Tribune Today - 03/06/11 08:32 AM
Back in May I wrote a post on 10 Tips on How to make Your Next Listing Look Like a Model Home.    Model Home Merchandising is all about creating a idyllic living atmosphere for that perfect buyer. Creating interior environments that speak to the prospective homeowner how they could live in this home.
In today's Chicago Tribune, Real Estate columnist Mary Umberber reiterates that same process with with an interview with High-End Model Home Merchandising expert and Interior Designer, Mary Cook.
It's a fabulous article, and brings home awesome points of how to stage a home like a Model - From first impressions to using … (13 comments)

preparing your home for the market: 10 Home Staging Tips to Make Your Next Listing Look like a Model Home - 05/26/10 08:18 PM
What is it about Model homes that make them so appealing?  Is it the freshness of all new; is it the sassy paint colors, the perfectly placed furniture, art and accessories or the beautiful groomed backyard that makes you want to plop right down on that comfy club chair, or light the grill on the patio?  Well.... Yes to all the above.  A builder hold hosts to an array of skilled professionals to make that Model beautiful.  From blue print to drawer pulls that Model home is meticulously planned.
Beyond the nicely placed furniture, Model homes are the current reflection of … (63 comments)

preparing your home for the market: Design Intervention - a "Hit List" of Staging Faux Pas UPDATED - 10/27/07 11:01 AM
Upon request, I have added one picture, and am looking for  helpful volunteers to assist me in adding the rest.
I know I know I'm going to get it!  But I just can't help it - it's in my genome mapping. I fully and totally understand that budget and faunte de mieux -"it's all they had" sometimes defines and drives the work of a home stager, and perhaps, just perhaps I'm not privy to a stager's psychology of these techniques. 
But... Here is my "Hit List" of Staging Faux Pas...  
Go ahead - Feel free to vent.... Along with me, or at me - … (25 comments)

 
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