baskets: Home Staging Trick: Baskets as Wall Art, Part 2
- 09/18/08 05:06 AM
I'm always working on a budget while carrying out a home staging project. I want to maximize every dollar spent so the house can look really impressive when I'm done. To that end, I need to be creative about the design. In home staging, as in home decorating, not every wall needs a piece of artwork. But at the same time, you don't want to leave the walls too sparse. If you do, what's "missing" in the room will overtake what's "present" in the room. Here was a recent challenge at a Marin home staging job. I had a wall that … (3 comments)
baskets: Big Wall, Small Picture: A Home Staging Solution
- 08/31/08 06:12 AM
It's a common challenge, both in home staging and at home. You have a wall that needs artwork, but the surface area is just too large for one standard-sized picture (say, 2'x3'). If a picture is too small (visually) for the space, it doesn't look right just "floating" there. What are the solutions? The most obvious is to buy either a larger picture or a grouping of pictures to fit the space. But say you don't want to spend the money, or happen to really love the too-small picture because the colors are perfect for that particular room. Then you have … (5 comments)
baskets: Baskets as Wall Art: A Home Staging Idea
- 08/06/08 09:40 AM
When you have a large, blank wall, filling it with a picture is great, but it can be expensive to buy a big piece of art. A clever alternative is to hang baskets in a display. It's relatively inexpensive and creates a great focal point in any room. I used this idea in a recent home staging project. The above picture is from a mudroom. Instead of installing a big shelving unit, which would've been costly, I wanted to give the idea of storage, so baskets were an easy home staging solution. You could do a display in any room, though: … (5 comments)
I'm always working on a budget while carrying out a home staging project. I want to maximize every dollar spent so the house can look really impressive when I'm done. To that end, I need to be creative about the design. In home staging, as in home decorating, not every wall needs a piece of artwork. But at the same time, you don't want to leave the walls too sparse. If you do, what's "missing" in the room will overtake what's "present" in the room. Here was a recent challenge at a Marin home staging job. I had a wall that … (3 comments)
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