I Wanted to Stage My Vacation House!

I am soooooooooo guilty of renting vacation homes, and then moving everything around so that it looked better (at least to me)!  Honestly, if toilets weren't bolted to the floor, I'd move them all over the place.

Congrats on your self-control.  I would have been unable to restrain myself.......hehehe!

I suppose this is yet another answer to the question: "You know you're a stager when.........?"

Get the job and take me with you.   I'm ready to run away from home.

Oh my, I can soooo relate to this!  Whenever we rent a beach house, I can't stop redoing it, either by moving things around or planning a new design in my head.  Make the voices stop!!!  (note: a few mojito's seem to do the trick).

Hi Marianne, I really love this post.. I do this also when we go somewhere other than our vacation rentals.. We have cabins near Pigeon Forge and a vacation home in the NC mountains.. I guess - I might need another stager to come check out our places.. I think- even when you are a decorator/stager - you still have more problems staging your own places... I think - I will do a post and ask for volunteers  to stage our cabins for a discounted rate ;-)   ??? God bless,

Marianne,

How nice to take a weekend away with friends!  I find that stagers tend to stage in their minds where ever they go!  I catch myself all the time re-arranging peoples homes or office lobbies, restaurants, you name it.  Hope the homeowner of the mobile home calls you back to stage, then when it sells quickly the rest of the neighbors will want you back to stage theirs.  Looks like you'll be spending lots of time at the lake this year! :)

Cheryl,

Give me the address and I'll be there.  Labour no charge!!

Give me a week away from the madness

Although I am a Realtor, I am a stager at heart, I guess.  I must rearrange homes when I shoot the listing photos.  Takes me about 2 hours or more to shoot a home, and when I watch others do it in 5 minutes makes me crazy.  Also guilty of rearranging the rental cabin!

Marianne,  We really love the Smoky Mtns.. We seldom do much in Pigeon Forge, we love the mountains and beautiful natural surroundings but since we have been managing the rentals - our trips there are mostly work but at least it's a great setting for work.. God bless,

Lil Sis- I am guilty of the same thing, except I want to redo hotel rooms. The last hotel I stayed in had two identical paintings above each of the two beds! Why had no one noticed this??? Is there a shortage of art for hotels, because I will start painting right now! Hope you get a chance to go back and fix that home!

My husband has actually gotten into staging our "outdoor room" on Duck Lake in Interlochen. We were having company this weekend, and he arranged chairs around the lakeside fire pit, put up the umbrella over the outside table, trimmed the bushes by my butterfly chair, and lined all the "fun" vehicles at the dock--I think I'm rubbing off on him!

Don't you just hate it when you get home from a friend or family member's house and you cannot get to sleep for the fact that images of their home keep popping up in your head?!?! You think of all of the miracles you could work in their space... Somehow it's not so easy in my own home:)

I know when we sell our home, I will definitely have another stager come in to tweak things that I don't notice...

In fact, I would love to find a nearby stager where we could trade services to each other for a personal consultation and redesign. I think both stagers would benefit and may even find each other great partners for future jobs that require extra hands.

I want to do this when I go to any home, I wonder if the owner thinks I'm checking out their home when I'm there.