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Bringing staging secrets home
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Home stagers have critical eye for design JURA KONCIUS THE WASHINGTON POST Home stagers are the people who sweep through homes going on the market and make them look uncluttered and cosy without a huge investment of time or money.
What’s their secret? Stagers have a bag of design and organizing tricks that can be useful even to someone who has no plans to sell. They look to make a house or condo desirable to potential buyers and maximize price. They have practical ideas to refresh your stale living room or pump up your curb appeal. Stagers cast a critical eye on everything. They remove things. They group like items together, rearrange bookcases, toss out lumpy pillows and frame children’s artwork previously hanging from magnets on the fridge. They might gather all your scattered framed family photos,
edit them and display them on one shelf or tabletop. Here are six ideas from four stagers to get you started on an intervention in your own home.
CREATE A LIGHT AND AIRY BEDROOM
“Lots of bedrooms are small and have few windows,” says Tyler Whitmore, owner of staging and design firm Ta-da! Homes in Bethesda, Md., who advises people to take a critical eye to every room in the house and “think like you’re going to see the house, even if you’re not.” She suggests painting walls a light colour and bringing in a neutral rug. Beds are the largest piece in the room, so linens shouldn’t stand out too much, she says. On a recent job at a Cape Cod, Whitmore replaced a dark navy bedspread on a mahogany sleigh bed with a cream coverlet. The navy one, Whitmore says, “created a
big black hole in the middle of the room.” Replacing chunky, mismatched nightstands, she installed matching pedestal nightstands, reusing the existing crackled-glass lamps. She put a pair of framed European prints over the bed as a focal point. “It feels calm in here now,” Whitmore says. “It’s the retreat everyone is looking for.”
GIVE THE BATHROOM A FACELIFT
Laura McCaffrey, a real e s t at e a g e n t a n d h o m e stager with Evers & Co. in Washington, sees lots of unusual bathroom-tile colour combinations in Washington’s 1920s and 1930s houses: Yellow and black, grey and maroon, pink and green. Yes, it’s retro, but with age, tiles crack and bathtubs chip. Many homeowners don’t want to shell out big bucks to gut their bathrooms.
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COLLEEN DUFFLEY/Traditional Home
Oriental rugs represent a stylish alternative to carpeting and can be thrown over existing area rugs to help personalize the look of your home.
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Celebrate our new name with $15,000 and choices galore!
AUGUST 2014
$15,000 worth of upgrades for FREE?!
Joyce Tourney
RE/MAX Joyce Tourney Realty
Brenda Jacksteit
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Glenn Nichol
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Jerome Rink
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Elisha Demyen
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Keith Larson
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
• 234 UNIVERSITY PARK DR
Seriously...Free! So go ahead and spoil yourself. * Spend $15,000 of Dream’s money on your upgrades. To see the eligible homes and upgrades, please visit homesbydundee.ca or call 306.347.8100. Blinds/
Natasha Blaisdell
Window Allowance
Hurry this is a limited time offer.
RE/MAX Joyce Tourney Realty
Jim Osiowy
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
Terrie Dunand
RE/MAX Crown Real Estate
• 2350 2ND AVE.
www.remax-crown-regina.ca
Dec Deck Packa age 144 sq ft
French Pantry Door
Laminate Main Floor
Tile Backsp Backsplash Kitc in Kitchen
Beam Central Vac
Upgraded Lighting Allowance
Heate ed Floor to Ensuite Ensui
On Demand Water Heater
Maple and Metal Railing
Applia Appliance age Packa
Tile to Laundry
Kitchen Granite/ Quartz
Air Conditi Conditioner
Bathroom Granite/ Quartz
Hardwood on Main
Detac ached Gara age Off La ane
Garburator
Tile to Bathrooms
*Depending on the stage of the home build, some upgrades may not be available.
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