Good Grief - I can't believe that it has happened, yet, again!
On Friday I went to a model, here on Long Island, that I recently staged with furniture and accessories I had chosen and purchased for the builder. When everything was delivered 2 weeks ago, I noticed that there were scratches on a table leg as well as on an end table. I reported this to the delivery men who quickly called the company to set up an appointment for a repair person to visit the house and correct the imperfections.
So, on Friday, while I was waiting for the repairs to be made, I casually walked through the staged rooms. Almost immediately I began to see the small changes: chairs moved a little further into the room; kitchen counters rearranged; table settings moved; a little ‘tweak' here and there on the mantel.... and I began to wonder - who did this? Was it someone who came to look at the model? Was it a realtor who had nothing to do at an Open House? Was it the builder...or one of his workers?
Just exactly WHO is this ‘Home Staging Fairy' who comes into staged houses and does this sort of thing? You see, this has happened to me before and on more than one occasion! I've spoken to other stagers and they have had this happen to them as well. Aside from it being somewhat annoying to be ‘second-guessed', I also find it rather amusing to learn that there are so many ‘would be' stagers out there (thanks a lot HGTV)!
I have a message for these ‘invisible helpers' who think that they are performing ‘home improvement' service....enough already!! Listen...every time that I stage a house, I leave interesting pictorial books on the coffee table along with my ‘trademark' pair of reading glasses...why not just sit and read and ‘take a load off'....just please, stop trying to ‘upstage' the stager!
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I have been guilty of tweaking things here and there. Most of the time I go home and rearrage all of my stuff because the stager gave me great ideas!