Monday, January 09, 2006

Home Staging the Vacant House

Answer to email question:

We stage empty houses with suggestions. For instance, we always use a round table (for signing contracts) with four chairs, a mirror in the entry, a large painting in the living room with a rocking chair, lightweight round table skirted for adding texture, table lamp for extra light, and big potted plants. In the kitchen, a colorful pot and plant, colorful thick kitchen towel for texture and softness, sometimes a mirror above the stove or sink if no window, sometimes a curtain if the view is terrible...

Thick bath towels and rugs in the bathrooms.

Are you in Florida? If is't hot there, you won't need the warming textures we use for winter staging.

I use a lot of fabrics and textures to tone-down a vacant hollow-sounding home. We don't do much in the bedrooms.

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