ShareA general rule is that people pay for square footage, so the bigger you can make your space feel the more money you can command. This doesn’t mean that empty rooms look bigger, because this is not true at all. With no furniture, it is hard for buyers to judge the scale of a room [...]

ShareStaging first gained most of its appeal and credibility with vacant homes. As a general rule, buyers have a very hard time imaging what a house “could” be like. Realtors saw that vacant homes were stagnating on the market, and so staging was brought in to address the issue. This is also why home builders [...]

SharePeople underestimate the power of focal points. Everything in the room cannot have the same weight and level of importance, and so focal points help to establish a sense of order for the eye, and tell it where to took. Without focal points, rooms look haphazard, confusing and flat. If not planned out or at least [...]

ShareEveryone has heard that they have to de-clutter. What can I say that’s new? Perhaps not much, I’m more interested in finding a way to motivate you to do it, because it is so incredibly important. But the reasons why it hasn’t been done in all the time you’ve lived in your home are probably [...]

ShareHere are some examples of rooms that have used a bold colour very successfully, in this case it is yellow. Colours that are bright, saturated, or deep do not need to be the main character in a space to feel their impact. When used in very planned and small doses, you can enjoy their energy [...]

ShareStaging first gained most of its appeal and credibility with vacant homes. As a general rule, buyers have a very hard time imaging what a house “could” be like. Realtors saw that vacant homes were stagnating on the market, and so staging was brought in to address the issue. This is also why home builders [...]