After touring the main floor and upper floor of a large bungalow for our home staging consultation, the seller opened the door to the stairs heading to the dungeon .... ummm, the basement. It was currently being used as a rented studio apartment (shhh! Not a legal one) and the renter would be moving out. A dark and dreary space, it came complete with a boarded up fireplace and the kitchen windows opened to a view of the underneath side of the back deck. Yuck!
They wanted to stage the main floor and master bedroom, but thought it might not be worth staging the dungeon basement at all. Somehow I managed to tactfully point out the general creepiness "undefined nature" of the room and the need to really make it feel cozy, inviting and useful. After discussion with the broker and sellers, it was determined that a TV den or family room would be the most valuable use of the room for potential buyers in the neighborhood.
Here are the before and after photos. The home is in the Piedmont area of Portland, Oregon and it sold in 3 weeks!
You can see more home staging and interior design work at Pangaea Interior Design.
Cool ~ very cool!The value you added to that property is outstanding!
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