Since creating the “to be continued” blog, I’ve been closing each post with the words “dwell in possibilities.” I must confess that I borrowed this phrase from the great poet, Emily Dickinson. I saw her quote and realized that it summed up what I am doing as a professional home stager and interior designer.

I am most grateful to Ms. Dickinson for her insightful and inspiring phrase.

Regardless of the size or price range of a house, my objective is to find the possibilities in that house. I am looking for those unique features of that house and finding possible ways to accentuate them for the potential buyer. I am analyzing those unusual spaces that buyers find difficult to understand upon first glance and finding possible functional uses for those spaces.

In the end, my mission is to help the potential buyer see how they could dwell in the possibilities of this house!


Thursday, January 19, 2012

Back to the Basics - Accessories

Truly memorable images - Audrey Hepburn’s string of pearls and black gloves, Audrey Hepburn’s sunglasses, Audrey Hepburn’s long black dress. 

Yes, the costumer started with near perfect beauty but added elegant touches and flourishes to make immortal the images of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  

In a similar vein, staging accessories can be the jewelry that brings color to the simple, yet elegant master bathroom.  They can be the sunglasses that draw the potential buyers’ eyes to the fireplace focal point.  Staging accessories can make the sterile kitchen appear to be the place for fun cooking and entertaining.

Today, we finish our Back to Home Staging Basics with an examination of Accessories.

With home staging, the furniture arrangement takes on the utilitarian tasks of making sense of each room and facilitating flow.  The home staging accessories take on the fun tasks of bringing out color, feeding the imagination, and creating the “Wow!” factor of the house.

Think about the possibilities that accessories suggest in the following rooms and spaces:

Kitchen – open cookbooks, bowls of fruit and vegetables, cheese and bread on a cutting board, copper pots and pans, apothecaries loaded with pasta and dried beans, http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/JeffersonStaging.html

Dining Room – table set with color dishes and glasses along with yellow sunflowers http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/Pepper-Grass-Staging.html

Master Bedroom – luscious, colorful and fresh bed linens accented by floral print and bedside tables http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/Birch---Catoosa.html

Master Bathroom – elegant hand towels, painting above bathtub, greenery accenting the tub, http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/Camelot-Court-Staging-2.html

Bookshelves – matching colored books like an English library, Toby mugs, sports trophies, bocce balls http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/76th-Place-Plus.html

The art of staging involves the placement of accessories to help the potential buyer understand the function of the space, to feel comfortable being in the space and most importantly, to imagine living the next chapter of their life in that house.  Accessories bring out the possibilities of the house – and when they work their magic, great results happen.


Dwell in possibilities


Cindy
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