staged homes: Stage Bedrooms, Because Size Matters! - 08/05/11 04:04 PM
When it comes to selling your home, the larger you can make rooms look through staging, the more space buyers will feel they're getting for their money. Clutter and too much or too-large furniture are all space-gobblers that make rooms look messy, smaller than they really are, and generally not as appealing as they should be.
This Bergen County, NJ house had typical "before staging" bedrooms: they looked small, crowded, and "under-dressed". In the master bedroom, the sellers removed two of the three large antique pieces of furniture, flipped the bed to the opposite wall away from the door, bought new … (12 comments)

staged homes: What's wrong with these MLS photos? - 09/28/10 03:31 PM
Here are 2 more examples of unflattering photos I stumbled across on the MLS -- and sadly, most of the photos I see on-line don't do their houses justice -- that clearly would benefit from simple staging: Lose the balloons, the little doo-dads above the cabinets, all the photos on the fridge, the photo and electronics on the end table, and most of the clutter on the counters. Get rid of the 2nd layer of curtains -- depending on the view -- and swap out the leopard print pillows for something more sophisticated and less taste-specific, like ivory and beige-patterned pillows. The … (5 comments)