Home Staging Befores & Afters

Finally.
Here's a few of the Befores & Afters of a recent Staging:
This was the Great Room BEFORE:
Nice quality stuff but it lacked warmth.

 The same room, different view: Again, notice the mostly empty space under the TV.  No lamps. Kinda bleh.

 AFTERS:

 First, we re-arranged the furniture; pulling it off the walls to warm it up.
Removed the candlescape and added the floral on the coffee table, the throw on the sofa, and a lamp on the end table, plus a living floor plant behind the sofa.

The homeowner went and bought some cool pillows at Pottery Barn and that livened it up too! Oh oh! See back on the wall there?  That's where those 2 pictures went up.

 

I wish I had a pic of the TV wall--we took off the colorless pictures, re-hung them somewhere else, and added an X-Large metal plate on a stand, and three XL candleholders with great rust-colored candles.  The homeowner loved it.

She said this experience has changed how she will shop for future homes--instead of just buying little things here and there trying to fill up spaces, she'll purchase larger items for specific spaces.  

 Okay Different House:

BEFORE:

Besides the obvious clutter and set-up, note the two types of curtains off to the Left.  One is a tabbed-top striped 84" length and the other was a pocket-rod style, sheer in a blue that matched nothing else, 60-ish" length.
There were 4 chairs in the room & an old navy blue covered hideabed, plus a leather loveseat.  The matching sofa was in a front livingroom.  As you can tell, the TV was the focal point of the room as it was set-up.  This is no bueno. A woman does not live in this house, btw. The homeowner did not want anything hung on the freshly painted walls, though. So we did what we could.

AFTER SHOTS:

Got rid of most of the furniture,

left the leather loveseat and brought in the sofa from the other room.

Removed the blue sheers.

Re-arranged what was left.

Added a few accessories.

Now, I would've loved to have added an

area rug, but the homeowner didn't have it in the budget. 

Most of the accessories are ours,

some were bought from Goodwill (the center candleholder $3.99),

some were from a "divorce sale" we were invited to,

and some was stuff the homeowner already had.

Okay, so my apologies for the poor lighting in the pics. I can d/l onto this hamster-infested pc, but can't get into Picasa no mo'.

But I does what I cans. Another happy homeowner/seller was born.  We wore him out with all of our TO-DOs; he worked hard and the results were worth it.
**Post-script: both of these homes, along with all the others we've staged this season have SOLD, much to the homeowners' delights!