How do you stage around Ochre and Lime Green walls?  Well, I'm happy to report that we pulled it off (click to see our fab photos)!

My partner Mary recently completed a staging job on a vacant home in South Boulder, which proved to be much easier than we first thought it was going to be.

It was a vacant home, however the owners were still in the area and met with us during the consultation.  

They had made a lot of improvements to the property, including extensive landscaping and a beautiful trex deck (with hot tub!), kitchen and bath upgrades, the whole nine yards; and were very obviously house proud.  

But the wall colors were, ehem, striking to say the least; and one of the first rules of staging says that wall colors ideally should be warm NEUTRAL tones!

Naturally we wanted to test the waters to see if they would would be open to the idea of re-painting most of the rooms on the main level.  But they were so obviously proud of the colors and adored them so that I thought better of it (I didn't want to lose the bid after all!).   And I have to admit that I really like bright colors on walls, so it's hard for me to advise people to spend an extra $1,000-2,000 on painting over their artistic endeavors. 

Photo by Kameel

So we strove to work with the colors and really make the rooms POP!  The planning was a little more intensive and we had to bring 3 sets of bedding to ensure that at least one would work with the VERY ochre walls; but in the end we were very happy with the result, as was our client.  Here are some of the photos we took for the MLS. 

Did I mention the Periwinkle Blue spare room?

OK, so the dining area wasn't too bad :)

Might as well show you the cute bathroom!

And the fab kitchen (with mauve tiled walls!)

And last but not least the very cool deck which we also staged, with the help of Fruehauf's Garden Center.  If you like what you see give John Bross a call over there (303) 449-9551 and he'll be glad to help you out!

The lesson here folks?  How do you combat bright colors?  With MORE bright colors!! And although our seller may be narrowing their buyer demographic with their home making such a 'statement', I'm sure that those who like it, will LOVE IT!

Happy Staging :)

P.S. If you are in the Boulder area and are thinking of having your home staged, give Ambiance Staging a call @ 303-435-1784!
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