How to stage your front door
Home staging tip: First impressions start even before the buyers set foot in your house. Front doors should either be in excellent condition or freshly painted, with no wreaths or excessive decorations on and around them. Flowers and plants are a great choice, as long as they lush and healthy. The entry mat should be brand new […]
The thing about rug placements
Home staging tip: Rugs have to follow some sort of pre-existing alignment in order to provide a visual balance. In this room, the rug doesn’t follow the direction of the walls, however, it is in line with the direction of the seating arrangement. Home staging by Francesca Tosolini Listing by Maria Danieli Photos by Francesca Tosolini
Two birds with one stone
Home staging tip: Light is an essential element especially for rooms that are dark even when it is sunny outside. In this case, we replaced the two bookcases that were displaying personal photos (a no-no in home staging) with two identical lamps and consoles. This way, not only we added the well-needed light, but we also made […]
What’s missing?
Home staging tip: Home staging problems are opportunities, solve them with creativity. By now everybody knows what a home stager is and does, but only a few people know that sometimes stagers need to be very creative in order to solve some (decorative) problems. If you look at the “after” photo above, you may […]
Staging adjacent rooms
Staging adjacent rooms is tricky because you have to make sure that the style and colors flow properly from one space into the other. In this case I used light blue as the main accent color for the sofa in the living room and for some accessories in the dining room. For more information about this listing contact […]
Show me the contrast!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my job, it’s that contrast is sometimes more important than color. Take this master bathroom for example: the overall color scheme was very neutral and light. For this reason I purposely introduced some dark brown elements such as towels, decorative boxes, candles, art, etc. As you can see […]