Design Love: We Need Your Vote!

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We had previously worked with this client on home staging for the sale of her condo.  When she came to us for help with her new penthouse in the sky, we were thrilled to take on the project with her.   

The brief was to create a mature, yet cozy space that would be great for the couple to lounge in. They like raw materials and selected barn board flooring as a developer upgrade.  Too much wood can be, well, woody, so we opted for natural materials and shapes to add texture and interest.  

We showed our client the boards last night and she loved them all.  Help her make the right choice: submit your vote in the comments below or tweet to @modernstagingca

Home Staging Check List: Kitchen

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Home Staging Check List: Kitchen

The kitchen is often considered the heart of the home.  It's where families meet, food is prepared, and conversations happen.  A good kitchen is important to most buyers.  A kitchen should be clean, functional, and if you have the time / budget, stylish.  

We see so many cluttered, tidy kitchens,  Back to our previous post about entrances and clutter, it is important to clear off the counters.  Overflowing counters, crammed with tired appliances and overflowing compost is a sure sign that there isn't enough storage.  This may be the case, but you don't want to advertise this!

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Home Staging Check List: Living Room

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Home Staging Check List: Living Room

Living rooms function differently for everyone.  Some families spend time in their living room, watching TV.  For others, it is a formal entertaining space.  You don't know who is going to walk through the door to look at your listing.  You can guess, but you can't know in absolutes.  

So how do you style your living room so that it attracts the widest pool of buyers?  Those who want to lounge, play, read, watch or rest?  

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Home Staging Check List: Entrance

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Home Staging Check List: Entrance

The Entrance is the introduction to the rest of the space.  How your entrance is decorated (or not) sets the tone for what potential buyers will expect on their walk through.  Here is your opportunity to start off well, with a nice, clean introduction.  Home Staging helps sell.  Don't skimp on the details. 

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Home Staging Check List: 6 Easy Steps to Stage Your Bedroom

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Home Staging Check List: 6 Easy Steps to Stage Your Bedroom

You walk into a home you are thinking about buying.  It’s a great layout, beautiful garden, totally turn-key.  Until you walk into the bedroom.  There’s a mattress on the floor, rumpled sheets, and a couple of tired looking pillows.  Is that. . .  could that be. . . are those . . . a couple of stray pubic hairs on the rumpled bedspread?!  Suddenly, this beautiful new (to you) house is looking less and less like your fairy-tale home, and more like a bad episode from the early seasons of Sex and the City.  You walk out, feeling like maybe the home wasn’t so clean.

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