Donna Dazzo's (ddazzo) Blog

If you ever doubted that home staging may not be the worthwhile investment everyone on the West Coast seems to think it is, updated statistics show that it is. Home staging is basically presenting a house or apartment in its best possible light so that it is attractive to the broad range of buyer...

  What exactly is flow, and more specifically, traffic flow, in a house or a room?  Simply, it's the ability to walk easily from room to room in a house as well as through the room without bumping into furniture or coming upon an empty space. Homes that have a good traffic flow sell faster than t...

Home staging does work! A two-bedroom apartment in New York City needed to be sold, and sold quickly, because the owners were being relocated down south.  And it happened in 8 days!     But, let's start at the  beginning of this amazing success story.     The furniture in all of the rooms was not...

I couldn't believe my eyes! Here was an apartment featured in the Sunday New York Times' "On the Market in New York City" column.  As I viewed the pictures of this and the other two properties online with my home staging eyes, I cringed at the thought that  someone thought it was okay to photogra...