My latest inner struggle has been - how much is too much?  In staging, at what point, is it no longer considered staging and rather a model home design?  When doing vacants, I find myself doing a whole room as opposed to vignettes, often with the customer's preferring me to do a "lived-in" look. 

I don't have after pics of the builder's home I am currently working on (all 4,500 sq ft), I can't wait to share it after it's all done, but when I post my B&A's, you will see I staged it top to bottom.   I specifically bid for a model home stage, which is more elaborate than a typical stage, all with a pool table and popcorn maker for the media/pool room.  I guess that mode of staging stuck with me because I just finished another staging, a much smaller home, but I found myself tweaking and tweaking.  I felt like I had to fill every hole.  Then I thought, is this still considered staging, or have I just found myself doing another model home design?  What is the difference?  Good question. 

Vignettes pop to mind.  Are vignettes powerful enough?  Are model home stagings MORE powerful?  I'd love to hear everyone's input. 

THIS IS MY LATEST (which I consider to be model home design)

THIS IS WHEN I WAS ALL ABOUT VIGNETTES (I wonder if that had something to do with limited inventory as well?!)