All I did was.... take a dated kitchen and make it look move in ready.

Hi Maria, when I first saw the back of the frame of the chairs I sort of kept looking. Then I noticed the seats. Then I knew I had something to give the kitchen a  young, happy look to it. The clients did not want to remove the cabinets so this idea made sense to me.

Hi John, I have to agree with you about the cabinets. I still think they should have either come down or had a modern sideboard below them to ground them. The neighbourhood is filled with kitchens that people try to create more storage in. This route did the trick though and all that counts at the end of the day is that the house is sold. Happy clients, happy agents!

Hi Jane, exactly. I distracted the eye for a bit with the cow chairs.

Hi Maureen, I have a similar lay out in my own house. I have planned for  several solutions when I renovate. The agents really wanted the cabinets to stay as it provided so much more storage. It was definitely an awkward eye catcher.

HI Kate, changing the drapery to the blue colour really calmed down this distracting kitchen. You have an eagle eye to see the effect it had on the room.

Hi Kathy, I didn't know what looked more odd... the floatin cabinets or the white cabinets added at the end of the run. All I knew was that it added up to a huge distraction that buyers potentially would see no value to and only money to be spent to fix it to look better.  Once we found the brand new set of dishes I took the look from there and voila! an updated kitchen.

Hi Julia, exactly! Most  homes in the neighbourhood have very large families in them. They always need more storage space. That's why it was agreed by the client, the agent and my self to work with them. The results speak volumes about the final decision.   Don't you just love the fun chairs? I couldn't let those go unused in staging this house, especially when I was using the Barcelona style chair in the adjacent family room.

HI Wendy, I've watched your work and you have what it takes to figure out these curve balls when staging homes as well. Thanks for stopping in to see these "floating shelves". Not quite what Ikea had in mind!

Hi Tori, I find that there are practical people in the world and creative people. This family needed more storage in the kitchen. Being a practical family, they installed more cabinets at a height that suited them for their needs. No thought to design, just practical storage. You and I could never live in a home with cabinets installed in that way though. We would have them down the first hour in the house and another solution in place. Same result, more storage- it would just look a whole lot better.

Hi Kathy, those hanging cabinets were just so" in your face". They were dark and heavy looking and then the white cabinet at the end made one wonder what the heck was going on in that kitchen. We talked about painting the cabinets the same colour as the wall to make them disappear,, or removing them ,but in the end, staging with the dishes and the cow chairs seemed to get the eye to rest on something else that wasn't quite so odd looking.

Thank you for the feature, most appreciated.

HI Valerie, cow chairs just say fun don't they? The clients were very happy that there was no work involved plus no cost involved. The agents were happy as the listing moved forward in a couple of days. A win win situation for everyone.

Hi Kim, Those cow chairs had the desired effect, it added a happy note to the house and added something interesting to the mix.

Hi Michelle, Simple and effective changes bring results every time as you well know. People think you have to make drastic changes to stage a home, however, you can see from these photos, a few well placed items that the home owner already had did the job.

Hi David, Thanks for stopping in to see this simple staging. I equate it to paddling a canoe. ( I know, a truly Canadian activity)  You don't have to paddle madly to change direction. You just need to know how to place your oar in the water at the right angle to get to your destination. In this house, it was a few simple changes that made all the differnce to how the buyers percieved the property.