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My Solution to the Angled Fireplace....Pictures!

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Home Stager with Cincinnati Home Stager

This week I was busy with my team staging an owner occupied house....with many challenges! One of those challenges was the wonderful Angled Fireplace. Here in Cincinnati, we are seeing alot of new construction with this feature. I'm still trying to figure out why builders think an angled fireplace is a great design...I guess it works for them as far as creating a smaller space with angles and vaulted ceilings to give the "illusion" of a bigger room when it really is not.  I'm finding that my clients with these wonderful angles have no idea how to arrange their furniture so they do what most do...push it up against a wall. What happens now is that all the furniture is lined up against the walls with alot of floor space in the middle.....It feels cold and uninviting....and you are shouting across the room to talk.   My challenge this week was to make a family room feel warm and cozy with a great conversation area but keeping the focal point on that wonderful angled fireplace!   Once I rearranged the sofa and loveseat, I had a blank wall to the left...you can read more about this here: Furniture Arrangement and the Angled Fireplace....HELP!  Thanks again to my dear AR stagers for suggestions and pictures of how they met the challenge of angled fireplaces! 

Here's my solution that worked pretty well for this particular house:

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Teresa Meyer is the Owner and Lead Staging Designer at Stage a Star, Cincinnati's Premiere Real Estate Staging company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Teresa is an Accredited Staging Professional and recently awarded 2011 Midwest Stager Of The Year.  She is a member of RESA, Real Estate Staging Association, RESA Instructor and currently is the State of Ohio RESA President.   Teresa can be reached at 513-379-5488 or by email: teresameyer@fuse.net to answer your questions about the staging process and looks forward to assisting you in preparing and staging your house for the Cincinnati real estate market.

     

Stage A Star provides home staging services to Hamilton county Ohio, Butler county Ohio, Warren County, Ohio, Clermont county Ohio, West Chester, OH., Liberty Twp, OH., Mason, OH., Fairfield Twp., OH., Monroe, OH., Hyde Park, OH., Loveland, OH., Maineville, OH., Morrow, OH., Deer Park, OH., Indian Hill, OH., and surrounding Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas.

 

Comments (3)

James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL
Nice Job Teresa...I see you managed to work some magic and eliminated the TV!
Mar 31, 2007 09:11 AM
Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495
Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

Hi Teresa, WOW that room looks so inviting.  Great job!  How did you get the owners to ditch the monster TV?  I did a consultation yesterday and suggested they move that and their tacky recliners to a spare bedroom and set it up as a "media" room, if you could call it that.  They were horrified at the mention, afterall the TV has been there since the dawn of time!  Oh and they had it angled in the room blocking a window.  What a turn off to buyers.  But they're gonna keep it there because thats the way they like it.

 

Terry Haugen - STAGE it RIGHT!

Mar 31, 2007 09:14 AM
Teresa Meyer
Cincinnati Home Stager - Cincinnati, OH
Home Staging Cincinnati-OH.
Hi Terry...
I got really lucky with the monster TV....the client said she had watched enough HGTV to know the TV had to go...:) Don't you love clients that are completely on board with staging!
Mar 31, 2007 03:52 PM