A couple of weeks ago we completed staging a beautiful contemporary single-family home in Reston, Virginia. The house is beautiful and the furnishings are quite nice, but there were a few pieces missing here and there, and the overall presentation lacked that oh-so-important "wow" factor (or "umph", as I like to sometimes say), especially since you enter almost directly into the living room. 

As is the case with virtually all occupied stagings, all the pieces are in the house, but they're just not in the right room or in the right place.  In the master bedroom, for example, the bed was placed on the largest bare wall, following the general decorating rule of putting the largest piece of furniture against the largest wall.  In this case, however, the wall also had the door, so upon entry into the bedroom a buyer would see the dresser with a TV on it and not the beautiful queen bed with new bedding.  By simply moving the bed to the opposite wall, now framed by 2 windows, the bed became the focal point of the room.  The sofa from the living room was then placed along the large bare wall, creating a lovely sitting area that emphasizes how large the master bedroom is.

A large curio in the dining room was placed in a niche to the left of the fireplace in the living room, balancing the large chest in the right niche, and a buffet from the family room was then moved to the dining room.  And so it went - all the pieces falling into place like a huge puzzle.  Rental furniture and accessories from Preferred Staging's inventory were brought in complete the rooms and fill in the blanks.  

The most challenging room, however, was the master bath.  With its cathedral ceiling, large soaking tub, and gothic-like windows, it required a very special and imaginative treatment.  Our solution was to create a magic garden surrounding the tub, with greenery, topiaries, delicate dogwood flowers, a bird cage and a nest, a statue, candles, and even a picture of the Eiffel Tower.  Perhaps it sounds a bit like "Where's Waldo?" but in this bathroom, it works.  The tub is now a destination spot, the perfect place to soak your cares away, and to enchant a buyer for this house.

Feedback from the Realtor at the Broker's Open and open house was all positive.  Realtors and clients were lingering!

All the Best!

Monica