It’s all about feelings

  Even though “It’s all about feelings” really sounds like a love song, I picked this title by thinking at the reaction one can get by looking at these two before and after photos. It’s unquestionable that the feeling you get from the two images above triggers two completely different responses: chaos and stress the […]

What’s a vignette?

  When it comes to secondary bedrooms, as a stager I think that it is ok to leave them empty. Sometimes, however, it is nice to “dress them up” with a few accessories to make them more appealing. This, for example, was an equestrian property, so we asked the seller to provide some items to […]

Breaking the square

This is probably the smallest family room I have ever staged, and yet it was furnished in such an elegant way that I was immediately stricken by the beauty of its details. Needless to say that the leather loveseat was taking too much room, therefore we moved it to the office where we needed to […]

Tiny tricks for big results

  Most of the times, when you enter into a house, you either walk into a foyer or a seating area. Sometimes though, like in this case, what you find in front of you is a dining room. When I first saw this room, as an outsider (remember this is what home stagers are: they […]

Redesigning a Microsoft office

Decoratively speaking, offices usually are very boring places. This is why my goal was to inject some sparkle into this office, and although I was happy to receive total creative freedom, I was also worried because I didn’t know the person who was working here: he was out of town and we wanted to surprise […]

Going with the flow

People love space and most of all traffic flow from one room to another. Open up a room by removing anything that interferes with it (like the sofa in this case). Home staging tip: “Avoid having furniture that interferes too much with the traffic flow of a room”. PS: Listing by Sharon Berry