One of the concerns or questions that always comes up with my new Staging Diva students is:
What do I do if the house looks so great when I get there that there is nothing for me to recommend?
Trust me, that won’t happen! Every house has something that needs to be moved around, removed or added before it goes on the market.
The beautiful room seen here, looked very similar before they implemented my changes. In fact this million dollar property located about 90 minutes outside of the city, was filled with beautiful furniture already. But a lot of it wasn’t optimally arranged.
One of the problems with this eating area off the kitchen was that the light fixture was originally hung about 12 to 18 inches lower than you see it here. This had the effect of closing in the room and making you feel like it was about to fall, which was scary since it’s so heavy-looking and it’s hanging over a glass table that’s sitting on a ceramic floor.
Homebuyers might not have realized exactly why they felt unsettled in this room, but that would have been a key reason. The other change I made was putting that large plant in on the right where a tall TV/TV stand used to be. There were other changes I made to this particular home, in fact I was there for several hours moving things around with her agent's help (how's that for an involved agent?)!
"Decorating to sell" is not the same as "decorating to live" which is why there is always something to recommend in any home you do a home staging consultation in.
While what we do as home stagers may seem obvious to us at times, it isn’t obvious to the clients we serve. They don’t bring the same eye to their home that we do for two key reasons:
- very few home staging clients can look at their own homes as objectively as they should before putting them on the market
- the general population doesn’t have the same design and color sense a good home stager does
Debra Gould, The Staging Diva
President, Six Elements Inc.
Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell.
Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses. Graduates are available for your home staging project across the US, Canada and in Australia, South Africa and Wales.
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