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How to Prepare Your Home For Sale During The Holidays
You can have too much of a good thing.  That applies to items in your home, especially seasonal decorations.  Kathy Nielsen, from Home Staging Atlanta, has some great advice that applies to home staging in Lethbridge Alberta as well. 
How to Prepare Your Home For Sale During The Holidays
I'm all for decorating during the holidays. In fact, I have boxes and boxes in my attic of Halloween and Christmas decorations. However, should I put my home on the market during the holidays, I'd use about a fraction of what I have. There's a reason behind it. When I decorate, I "add" to what's already out. In other words, I'm not packing, I'm adding more things.  
Now as much as I'd hate to call my holiday decor "clutter", the simple truth is that it is. And as we all know, clutter eats up real estate. Not good when selling. My advice - if you bring a holiday decorative item in, replace it with something that is already out.
My second piece of advice - Use accessories that follow the season, as oppose to the holiday. 
Here's an example of the accessories we chose to showcase the living room in a vacant home we staged in ... more

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