Article from WXYZ Channel 7's website, based off the segment on Staging that I participated in. I Staged the guest room and baby's room:
7 On Your Side: Staging Your Home
By JoAnne Purtan
Web produced by Sarah Morgan
October 7, 2005
There are books, websites, even TV shows devoted to home staging. That's the practice of re-decorating to make a house more attractive when it's for sale.
But, home staging can also make a home more livable when it's not for sale.
To prove the point, a team of home stagers took an attractive colonial and spent four hours and about a hundred dollars to really spruce it up.
The suburban colonial was already nicely decorated, but with a little work, a group of local stagers turned it into a show place.
The dining room was already dramatic, but Tammy Dameron and Marianne Sweet have a plan, de-traditionalize.
They’re keeping the integrity of the antique furniture, but going to put in a mix of contemporary accessories.
In the newly redecorated kitchen the goal is to subtract clutter and add color.
The center of this house is the living room. The home owners have already said they dislike the rug and are willing to lose the armoire. The stagers said there’s more that needs to be done.
Upstairs the team tackled 3 of the 4 bedrooms, the nursery, the guest room and the master bedroom.
They want to introduce some more texture to the room and just really give it some punch.
Every house needs staging. Mainly just a fresh eye to come in and re-arrange the furniture and try different pieces of furniture in different rooms to see what is the best floor plan or traffic flow, depending on what they want to use the room for.
So what’s difference between staging for sale and staging for living?
The back of the couch is to the kitchen, if it was staged to sell, the couch would have been turned to open up the room.
All the personal family photos were left out and on display, but if it was being sold, they would have been put away.
The stagers made the rooms less symmetrical. They took leaves out of the heirloom table, finessed the window treatments and the beautiful piece that was almost hidden in a corner moved to a place of prominence in the foyer.
In the kitchen, the counters were cleared, and a colorful valance replaced the white panel curtains.
The most dramatic change may have been in the living room. The furniture was re-arranged, the fireplace accessories were pared down and the dog-crate corner has a classy new look thanks to furniture from the foyer.
The guest room now has the feel of an expensive bed and breakfast. The position of the bed was changed and the armoire from the living room is now a welcoming hutch filled with goodies for guests.
The baby’s room was already cute, but now it has a little play area and accessories are grouped in a unique way.
The master bedroom had been quite traditional, but the newly created artwork and a no-sew valance give it an updated look.
7 On Your Side: Staging Your Home
By JoAnne Purtan
Web produced by Sarah Morgan
October 7, 2005
There are books, websites, even TV shows devoted to home staging. That's the practice of re-decorating to make a house more attractive when it's for sale.
But, home staging can also make a home more livable when it's not for sale.
To prove the point, a team of home stagers took an attractive colonial and spent four hours and about a hundred dollars to really spruce it up.
The suburban colonial was already nicely decorated, but with a little work, a group of local stagers turned it into a show place.
The dining room was already dramatic, but Tammy Dameron and Marianne Sweet have a plan, de-traditionalize.
They’re keeping the integrity of the antique furniture, but going to put in a mix of contemporary accessories.
In the newly redecorated kitchen the goal is to subtract clutter and add color.
The center of this house is the living room. The home owners have already said they dislike the rug and are willing to lose the armoire. The stagers said there’s more that needs to be done.
Upstairs the team tackled 3 of the 4 bedrooms, the nursery, the guest room and the master bedroom.
They want to introduce some more texture to the room and just really give it some punch.
Every house needs staging. Mainly just a fresh eye to come in and re-arrange the furniture and try different pieces of furniture in different rooms to see what is the best floor plan or traffic flow, depending on what they want to use the room for.
So what’s difference between staging for sale and staging for living?
The back of the couch is to the kitchen, if it was staged to sell, the couch would have been turned to open up the room.
All the personal family photos were left out and on display, but if it was being sold, they would have been put away.
The stagers made the rooms less symmetrical. They took leaves out of the heirloom table, finessed the window treatments and the beautiful piece that was almost hidden in a corner moved to a place of prominence in the foyer.
In the kitchen, the counters were cleared, and a colorful valance replaced the white panel curtains.
The most dramatic change may have been in the living room. The furniture was re-arranged, the fireplace accessories were pared down and the dog-crate corner has a classy new look thanks to furniture from the foyer.
The guest room now has the feel of an expensive bed and breakfast. The position of the bed was changed and the armoire from the living room is now a welcoming hutch filled with goodies for guests.
The baby’s room was already cute, but now it has a little play area and accessories are grouped in a unique way.
The master bedroom had been quite traditional, but the newly created artwork and a no-sew valance give it an updated look.
