We are in New Jersey visiting our newest grandchild, Ashlyn Rose Kelly. We decided to reprint a few favorite blogs as a refresher for our long time readers and an introduction for our newer readers.
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!
In some cases, the possibilities are obvious and the complementary staging falls easily into place. In many other cases, my training, expertise and experiences as a stager are really needed to find and highlight that house’s possibilities.
There is often a point in the staging process when I am not sure that can pull it off. It has become a joke with my husband when I tell him this may be the one that defeats me. He laughs because he knows that I will find that one hook or stage that one room which makes everything else fall into place. So far, I always do!!! And, each time I am reminded that home staging is always more art than science.
So, remember what Emily says and . . .
Dwell in possibilities!
Cindy
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