Home staging: renting or buying furniture?
Home staging tip: If you are a homeowner planning to put your house on the market and you are aware that some of your furniture is not really “staging material”, your best options are either renting or buying the pieces that you need in order to make your home look more appealing. The owner of this […]
The alternative to the kitchen dining set
This house sold in 6 days for $85,000 over asking price Home staging tip: Instead of using the traditional table and chair dining set when you stage a kitchen nook, use a stainless steel work table and style it with some kitchen accessories. This solution will still give the buyer the right perception of the […]
Rugs, dining tables and rules
Home staging tip: If you decide to use a rug under the table in the dining room, make sure it is big enough to allow the chair to be pulled out. Do that by adding about 20 inches to the size of the table. Home staging by Francesca Tosolini Furniture and accessories by Staging and […]
Painting wood paneling
This house sold in 7 days for $69,000 over asking price Home staging tip: With its dark wood paneling and orange carpet, the room above was screaming 70’s. Fortunately, it wasn’t necessary to remove the wood paneling to provide a brighter and more updated look, because it can be easily painted. Not only that but […]
Staging a home while you still live in it
This house sold in 5 days for $52,000 over asking price Home staging tip: It is quite challenging to live in a staged home, however, you don’t need to give up all your habits while you do that. For example, if you use the coffee machine every morning, you don’t need to store it. My […]
Playing with geometry
Home staging tip: Picture this: one corner, one square end table, two (almost) square armchairs and one rectangular rug. Seems quite simple right? Believe it or not, it took me more than twenty minutes trying to figure out how to arrange and balance these 4 elements together. Why? Because there was always this little space […]
