Now here's a new one...

 I hope they recycle when they are done. I think drawing a sketch of furniture placement on graph paper may be more effective.  A strong gust of wind through the house can completely destroy any "paper staging" efforts!

True, true. So have you seen this before? Or is like the locness monster or bigfoot. Am I the only one who has seen this?

Never heard of this.  How rediculous.  Kristina's comment was great... don't let any turn the overhead fan on!

I've never heard of it either.  What's next, CSI staging, where you place tape outlines on the floor?  You could do outlines of feet in the shower, an outline of a teenager sprawled in front of the outline of the TV.  Did you ever see the show where they used cardboard to actually make "furniture"?  Can't remember what show it was - something on HGTV or TLC, no doubt.  I thought that was kind of weird, but the paper on the floor is just silly.

I will use "other use" boards on easels when the budget is really tight yet room is confusing...I put attractive photos of how the room can be used...I also may put one in a room if it could have more than one purpose. 

Good to see a "south jersey" girl staging.  While it was a lifetime ago, that is where I grew up!

Never seen this one. . .we have a hard enough time getting our buyers to visualize the home with their colors on the walls and new carpet. . .with paper furniture they would have to imagine couches and tables too?! 

Interesting, we stage vacant homes because most people cannot visualize their belonging in a home, nor can they visualize the possibilities of what it could feel like living there.  I guess this would at least move them along visually to a point that they could see where their own pieces of paper could be placed.

Hey you have to give them credit for being creative.

Paper Staging? That's just down-right ODD. Talk about clutter! Heck, people would be way to busy reading all of the notes, etc. to be concentrating on the house itself. I makes no sense!! Next they'll be doing card-board furniture or something.

I had a client once who put nicely framed notes around the house. It wasn't so much paper staging as stuff like "Energy Efficient Windows," or "New, (insert name here) appliances." Things to point out some features of the home. I liked the idea, except for whatever reason they used NEON colored paper...which was a little over the top.  

Amber 

This is simply crazy. Talk about CLUTTER!

Thank Goodness I have yet to hear one person agree with this concept on AR. Oh Andrea I saw that show, it was on A&E and it was called Sell this House or Sell that house. It was last year. That was on the top 3 list of craziest staging ideas I ever saw. I hope they had insurance because it would only take one person to sit on that card board couch and PLOP! on the floor. Forget about selling the house they would be signing papers for a lawsuit.

Very funny replys glad you enjoyed it!

Renee, Yeah a SJ girl I am by marriage! Where are you from?

How absolutely odd!  Can you imagine the prospective buyers entering the home and seeing that?  I'd find it more distracting and tacky.

Kathy

Did I read that correctly ? And even on HGTV ? Have they lost it ? I think if I was a buyer and walked into a home that had paper laying everywhere I would die laughing... Honestly...

I've never heard of it.  It sounds crazy to me, but that's just me, silly old photographer...

Joseph

SilentStill 

Thats silly, seeing that paper on the floor would make me wonder if they were having a hard time potty-training their bad little puppy.

That is beyond belief!  Yikes!  What a nightmare!  

Great-Just what we need another entity joing the field Paper Stagers! LOL

This was on HGTV?  What show was that?  Perhaps they need to save a little of their budget during these tough times. LOL

Never heard of it!  Crazy!!

Elise,   Thanks!!  That's just what I needed after a long day!  That is very odd and I've never heard of such a weird thing -- Andrea's comments on the outlined tape bodies was hilarious!  Thanks for the amusing post!   -Sheri

UGH....Seems to me to be job security I can't believe anyone would think this was effective.  I'd be laughing too Mary Lou.

Wow!!! This sounds crazy.  I have never heard or seen such a thing myself.  The only thing I have seen is laptops or T.V."s but they actually look like what they are supposed to be.

The show was House Hunters, when I wrote this blog for the life if me I couldnt remember the show. It aired a week or two ago. I myself couldnt believe it when I saw it on tv. I thought the time it happened to me that there was only one person who thought that might be effective. As of last week I saw an ad for the property and it was still on the market. I guess it is no wonder.  

I have never seen this before or even heard of it before. How bizarre is that. I can tell you I wouldn't have my company name any where on that project. I really don't think that stager will be in business for very long. 

You have alot of responses from other home stagers, but as an agent showing houses. . .  I think we ( the agent and the clients) would end up making more fun of that instead of thinking it was helpful. Well, after we walked around and stopped making fun of it, then we might appreciate the "furniture". Especially the stuff in the kitchen cabinets?  If you can't afford it, we understand.  maybe some things are just better left alone.

Else

The next thing your going to see is that blow up furniature you win at the shore. Its compact and can be taken anywhere also durable. This is for budget stagers. :)

Hopscotch anyone?

What a strange concept.  It reminds me of a vacant home I staged where the listing agent had written "notes" all over the house ("here is the wine rack -- microwave oven -- trash compactor -- new roof -- closet," etc.).  The first thing we did when walking in to stage that vacant house was to REMOVE all signs.  We need to show clients the real thing, not a piece of paper!

Paper Staging on HGTV - this sounds like something HILDI would have thought up - but only if there were at least 100 pieces and each one was glued separately to the floor so it would take forever to repair the place once each piece was removed! Let's hope this TREND goes the way of the dinosaurs. 

That's not a trend, that's an aberration.

Jackie

There is a company that sells large paper cut outs of furniture for use when trying to figure out the lay out of furniture prior to purchasing it.  The company is called Design Yourself Interiors...there web site is www.designyourselfinteriors.com  The concept is really a great one as it's useful to people having homes built to be able to move these life size templates around their spaces to even help in the planning of where to place electrical outlets.  I think that a set of these templates would be great for anyone who works a lot with the staging of vacants...you could very easily plan out the space and then bring in the furniture so that you are only moving the heavy stuff one time...but to use them in and of themselves as a means of staging...now that would be too funny!!!  Someone obviously loved colorforms as a child! 

Great Post!  I enjoyed it!

Paper outline you would NOT want to use ever:

Julianna...you are always a treat! ha! 

Thanks Gina, I do take my work seriously, but I think there is most always room for a little lightheartedness!

Couldn't agree with you more Julianna!!! 

Elise - new photo - nice, much more business like!!

My daughter is an artist ,so we could probably do painted cut outs  - LOL

Imagine walking out of the bathroom with a piece of paper stuck to the bottom of your foot with 'toilet paper goes here' on it!

Never heard of this technique, but the comments are priceless!! Thanks for the laughs..

Kathy