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From Messes to Eye Candy!

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Home Stager with Creative Concepts-Home Staging and Contracting, Salem Oregon CCB #180695

Last week a local blog (Desperately Seeking Salem) advised:

 

 

“you will want to read this local business’s excellent blog about what it does to make messes into eye candy.”

 

 

Eye candy . . . mmmmmm.  I like it!

 

While it’s not a description I’ve ever used when describing interior design or home staging ideas, I think it’s a perfect description of our business!

If you’re wanting to:

create a home that makes you smile when you enter the door

or

a house that is appealing to buyers,

 

changing those messes into eye candy can be easy and affordable!  It’s just knowing how and what to improve – and that’s our speciality!  This recently staged home is a perfect example.

The above faux paint job screamed 1990 when you walked into this beautiful master suite.  Painted over by the owners for less than $20, a few colorful towels and decor — now it looks like an asset, not a “to do” project.

In the great room, the wall color was beautiful, the flooring neutral, but these two colors did not go well together.  This is especially a problem when the room is vacant because it gives buyers the feeling of “why doesn’t this home say welcome”? 

Ever enter a room and it just doesn’t “feel” right?

By adding some contemporary decor and furniture, the focus was now on how the space could be used! The room now was warm and inviting from the first impression.

This home was on the market for about a year and a half before we were called for a staging consultation.

Located in Albany, Oregon where the average days on market are 142 and 11 months of inventory are currently listed, the odds were against this home in getting a quick sale – even if the owners implemented each of our recommendations.

We met and armed them with a detailed “to do” list, which they implemented within a week.  We the returned, providing a basic home staging package of furniture and decor.

 

 

 

An offer was received in two days.

It’s always hard to resist candy — even if it is just eye candy!

 

What can you do to make your space irresistible?

 

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Comments (9)

Cindy Garruba
North Fork Home Staged to Sell - Riverhead, NY

Margaret, I am not surprised the home sold so quickly after you worked your magic!  Great job!

Oct 22, 2010 03:31 AM
Sally Weatherley
EXIT STAGE RIGHT - Vancouver, BC
Vancouver Home Staging, Home Stager Vancouver, B.C

Margaret - Sure glad these home buyers had a sweet tooth and gobbled up this eye candy!  Vacants can look so cold without furniture, accessories and candy wrappers accessories.  Great job.

Oct 22, 2010 03:57 AM
Loren Castillo
eXp Realty - Portland, OR

You did a great job with this house, it made all the difference.  Great eye!

Oct 22, 2010 11:46 AM
Margaret Oscilia
Creative Concepts-Home Staging and Contracting, Salem Oregon - Salem, OR
Home Stager, Salem Oregon

Thanks Cindy - It's always so much fun to work with home sellers who implement our suggestions isn't it?!  This sale was so quick it was like magic!

Sally - LOL!  You're so right -- especially when the rooms weren't picture perfect!  I know you make sweet treats for your home sellers too!

Loren - Thanks for stopping by and commenting -- we were so thrilled for these home sellers who just needed a little advice and staging help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct 22, 2010 02:03 PM
Kristine Ginsberg
Elite Staging and Redesign, LLC - Short Hills, NJ
NJ Home Stager

Great job - especially the living room!

Oct 22, 2010 02:32 PM
Kathy Nielsen
http://atlantahomestaging.net - Marietta, GA
Atlanta Georgia Home Stager

I'm sure the home owners were extremely grateful to have received an offer so quickly. And all thanks to you, Margaret.

Congratulations. Your home staging is being featured in the group Staging Before and After Pictures.

Kathy

Oct 23, 2010 01:01 AM
Kathy Burke
Sensational Home Staging~~Danville, CA - Danville, CA
S.F. East Bay Home Staging

WOW.....great investment!  Congrats on the offer and what an endorsement for staging!!

Oct 24, 2010 11:12 AM
Linda D. Pufford
Stage with Divine Style - Home Staging - Novato, CA
ASPM, Marin/Sonoma Home Stager

Margaret,

Congratulations on the quick sale...  Wow 2 days when it was on the market so long.  What a great success story for you and how you make the homes you stage irresistible!!!

Nov 06, 2010 04:55 PM