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When Preparing Your Home For Sale - Aim for a Cohesive Look

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Home Stager with http://atlantahomestaging.net

When Preparing Your Home For Sale - Aim for a Cohesive Look

As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I'm often asked by sellers what "look" they should aim for that works well when selling a home.

The short answer is to when possible, keep it as consistent throughout. Why? Let's use paint color as our example. Let's say that the living room is a celery green, the dining room is red and the kitchen is yellow. Each time you introduce a "new" color, your eye stops, registers the new color (all subconsciously) and carries on. With the use of one color, there is no stopping. Your eye continues to flow and as a result, can help make the space appear "visually" larger. 

Yesterday, while staging this home in Austell, Georgia for an Atlanta investor - the walls were all painted the same color. So... what I elected to do is to carry that thought process of "keeping things consistent" with using like-colors in the furniture and accessories throughout.

Here are a few of the before and after pictures.

Living room before home staging.

Living Room Before Home Staging

Living room after home staging

Living Room after home staging

Guest Bedroom:

Guest Bedroom Before home staging

Guest Bedroom after home staging

Guest Bathroom Before Staging:

Guest Bathroom Before Home Staging

 

Guest Bathroom

 

 

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Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

 TOP 10 Professional Stager of the Year in the

United States 2013  - RESA


This Atlanta home stager understands what it takes to separate your home or listing from the others on the market. Armed with a massive inventory, we can add the furniture and accessories befitting the style of the home as well as the demographics of the buyer. We also provide our after pictures at no additional charge. 

 

Atlanta Georgia Home Stager Kathy Nielsen

 

Our Atlanta home staging services have helped hundreds of sellers secure a contract quickly. Visit our website at http://atlantahomestaging.net to see first-hand the solutions for selling your home, listing or flipped property. Contact us today to schedule your appointment by emailing Kathy at Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com or by calling 678 522 8392. We've got the furniture and accessories your home needs!

 

 

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Comments(14)

Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Kathy- Good advice.  The eye needs to flow. I love the ironwork over the sofa.  The rooms seem to flow and gives a calming air.

May 05, 2011 03:31 AM
Janet Jones
Just Your Style Interiors, LLC - Kihei, HI
Home Staging, Interior Redesign Kihei, Maui, Hawaii

Kathy--such great advice.  I so often am dealing with homes where each room has it's own "personality" and color theme and nothing relates to anything adjacent to it--even flooring.  Your living room is fantastic.  I agree with Kathy about the ironwork over the sofa. 

May 05, 2011 03:46 AM
Laura S. Baker
First Weber Inc - Lake Mills, WI
Realtor (920) 728-4118, First Weber Inc

Cohisive,... and absolutely stunning Kathy!  You have given some excellent advice here Kathy and worded it beautifully.  These rooms feel relaxing and inviting and flow wonderfully. 

May 05, 2011 04:15 AM
Janice Ankrett
Burlington, ON
Staging Professional

Kathy, I couldn't agree with you more! If the house has flow it shows so much better.

May 05, 2011 06:04 AM
Maureen Bray Portland OR Home Stager ~ Room Solutions Staging
Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR - Portland, OR
"Staging Consultations that Sell Portland Homes"

Kathy, buyers will easily remember this home ... it's the one that looks "spectacular!"  Love the color palette you used!!

May 05, 2011 02:28 PM
Sally Weatherley
EXIT STAGE RIGHT - Vancouver, BC
Vancouver Home Staging, Home Stager Vancouver, B.C

Kathy - Love the black, white and beige - it's just gorgeous.  A very sophisticated colour palate. 

May 05, 2011 06:46 PM
Diana Young
Staging Seattle, King & Snohomish Counties - Edmonds, WA

Another beautiful staging, Kathy!   I agree that it helps to keep the look throughout a house cohesive both with color and style and to be mindful of the style of the actual house - i.e. craftsman, mid-century modern, etc. when selecting furniture and colors.

May 07, 2011 01:42 AM
David Peterson
Synergy Staging ~ specializing in vacant home staging - Portland, OR
Home Stager Portland OR-Synergy Staging-Portland Oregon

I love the look you created here Kathy. We try to tie colors throughout a house as well. Your pictures really capture the color and pattern theme without looking stagey.

May 10, 2011 08:15 AM
Michelle Drewry
Signature Real Estate Group - Henderson, NV
Realtor - Signature Real Estate Group

I love the clean sophisticated style you created - not too overdone. 

May 10, 2011 12:41 PM
Bill Gassett
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Hopkinton, MA
Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

Kathy I just have to tell you that I am always more than impressed when I stop by and check out your work!

May 10, 2011 11:51 PM
Kathy Nielsen
http://atlantahomestaging.net - Marietta, GA
Atlanta Georgia Home Stager

Thank you, everyone, for your very kind comments! The owner loved how it came out.

Kathy

May 11, 2011 01:11 AM
Karen Searle, Home On Display
Peterborough, ON

Beautiful - I love the metal piece of art you used instead of a painting about the couch.  Great for interest and texture!

May 11, 2011 03:11 AM
Hrisco & Associates
Hrisco & Associates - Roanoke, TX
Roanoke Homes for Sale - Roanoke Neighborhoods

Hi Kathy, great staging done on this home.  About a year or so ago I was in the process of being certified by Haverhill Institute of Staging & Design, but did not finish the process.  It is on my to do list, just one more feather in my cap for me to add additional value to my clients.  But in the mean time.  Have any of you stagers ever considered or tried virtual staging for clients outside of your locality?  Also, I plan on re-blogging, wanted to reblog the reblog I found this on, but it will not let you do that.

May 11, 2011 09:09 AM
Wendy Tomm
Beyond the Walls - East St Paul, MB
CCSP, RESA-PRO, BBB - Wpg Realtors
Consistency pays off and you did a wonderful stage.
Sep 10, 2011 04:16 AM