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Romancing a Space to Add Function: Home Staging in Connecticut

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Home Stager with Nestings: Connecticut Home Staging and Model Homes

Romancing a Space to Add Function: Home Staging in Connecticut

Nestings Home Staging recently Staged a lovely home in the Greenfield Hill section of Fairfield, Connecticut.  This particular project called for using the Seller's furnishings.  Fortunately, we had many beautiful things to work with.  So we edited, rearranged, and moved some pieces to different rooms.

There's a small room off the original master bedroom.  Given the age of the house, it was probably intended as a dressing or sewing room (as in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House").  It housed a crib and a small bookshelf filled with books and toys for visiting grandchildren.  It was cramped. 

BeforeBefore

To sell the house, the space needed another function - and one that was not only practical but would visually romance the target buyer.

Using a table and chair from other rooms, we created this:

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Nestings Home Staging Connecticut

Who doesn't dream of having a gift-wrapping room (like Candy Spelling's)?  This fanciful scenario also suggests that a vanity or desk would work equally as well in this former sewing room.

Blog Post Bonus:  A quick make-over for this chair:

Side Chair

Circa 1940s side chair with maroon needlepoint seat.

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Cover the seat with a colorful coffee table book!  What's better than Lily Pulitzer?

Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Julia -- simple and creative ---- a great transformation -- the owners/sellers should be impressed and the prospective buyers will  be able to look at a room with an entirely new perspective of "possibilities of what can be" in what may be considered a lost space.

Mar 09, 2012 03:17 AM
Maureen Bray Portland OR Home Stager ~ Room Solutions Staging
Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR - Portland, OR
"Staging Consultations that Sell Portland Homes"

Very clever, Julie!  The view out the window is now highlighted instead of being hidden by a crib.  The buyer will now see the possibilities in using this room in various ways.  Cute table and chair by the way!

Mar 09, 2012 03:28 AM
Cheryl Holy
Rooms Reborn Certified Homestager - Waco, TX
Home staging & Redesign

What a great idea!  It is so fun when we get inspired to create something unexpected with the owners own furnishings.  That has enabled me to get the decorating job when they buy there new home if it is in the same area of course.  I am sure you have had the same luck!

Mar 09, 2012 04:49 AM
Joanna Cohlan
Fresh Eyes For Your Home - Chappaqua, NY
Designing, Decorating & Staging Westchester Homes

Julia, how clever is that-a gift wrapping room with a lovely chair along side it-I love a coffee table book on a chair and the bags with ribbons!

Mar 09, 2012 04:51 AM
Julia Maher
Nestings: Connecticut Home Staging and Model Homes - Fairfield, CT
Connecticut Home Stager

Very eloquent, Michael - Thanks!  That's just what I meant to express.

Oh Maureen - I love vintage furniture too!

Cheryl - I have been fortunate to  get design work from Staging clients too.

Hi Joanna - Even the gift wrap ribbons and bags were theirs!

Mar 09, 2012 05:05 AM
Roger D. Mucci
Shaken...with a Twist 216.633.2092 - Euclid, OH
Lets shake things up at your home today!

What a clever idea Juli.................very well done.

Mar 09, 2012 05:14 AM
Anna Dovger
Add Value Home Staging LLC, 281-704-6607 - The Woodlands, TX
Home Staging -The Woodlands, TX

Julie, very creative idea, who doesn't want to have a separate wrapping room? Or may be a shopping therapy room where you put all your bags after the trip to the mall ;-)

Mar 09, 2012 06:50 AM
Peggy Hughes/pha logistix, inc.
pha logistix inc - San Francisco, CA
SF NYC LA

Years ago I set up a gift wrapping station in my garage... now I just have a small section in my closet .... I really miss the larger space :(  Clever way to "stage" the chair!

Mar 09, 2012 10:25 AM
Sally Weatherley
EXIT STAGE RIGHT - Vancouver, BC
Vancouver Home Staging, Home Stager Vancouver, B.C

Julie - Talk about tugging at the ol' heart strings.  What a lovely presentation.  The soft blue ribbons are very pretty and almost, dare I say it, a little Martha-esque.  Great job!

Mar 09, 2012 11:53 AM
Janet Jones
Just Your Style Interiors, LLC - Kihei, HI
Home Staging, Interior Redesign Kihei, Maui, Hawaii

Hi Julie--I said a great big, "Awe" when I saw the after picture.  It is so creative and also so fitting with the home.  Shows potential buyers a great option for using that space.  And as Maureen commented above, now the view out the window is shown as a feature, too. 

Mar 09, 2012 04:06 PM
Julia Maher
Nestings: Connecticut Home Staging and Model Homes - Fairfield, CT
Connecticut Home Stager

Thanks so much, Roger!

LOL Anna!  Or I could showcase my shoes - and paint the floor red to match my red bottoms!

Peggy - I'm down to a box in a closet myself!

Yes, Martha was whispering in my ear, Sally!

And that is quite a view, too, Janet

Mar 09, 2012 11:20 PM