Lighting is important in staging a home
When a prospective buyer enters a home it is very important that the home look well lit. Lighting plays an important role in playing up the features of a home.
The major types of lighting include general lighting, task lighting, accent lighting and decorative lighting.
General lighting or ambient lighting provides a room with overall illumination. [...]
Keep it out of the landfill!
We all want to make a difference for the planet…but as eco-stagers how do we do that? Besides being a Certified Canadian Staging Professional, I am also an Environmental Science Technologist and have seen the impact that waste and toxins have on our environment first hand. I have been to many landfills and the amount [...]
“Changing Gears” article by Karen Hubert
Hiring a Real Estate Stager is Being Proactive in Today’s Market
As we say goodbye to 2008 and we begin 2009, we find using all services available to us for selling real estate, increasingly more important.
Real estate staging is one of the services that can be used by homeowners, builders, property developers and realtors to [...]
Color 101
When staging a house, using neutral colors is imperative so as to appeal to the maximum amount of potential homebuyers. Most of us know the basic neutral colors of beige, taupe, white, creams and lighter tans. The reason we use these tones is that many people could be turned-off of colors that are too [...]
Home Staging – Exceeding Buyer’s Expectations
As 2009 unfolds it’s no secret that it is a buyer’s market in most major cities. Vancouver is no exception. Now more than ever it is imperative that home sellers go the extra mile when presenting their property for sale. As buyers expectations escalate more people are turning to home stagers to help secure a sale. [...]
The HRTC and Home Staging
    What an opportunity homeowners in Canada have during 2009 to complete home renovations and then receive a tax credit! The latest federal budget that was recently passed in Canada has implemented a temporary Home Renovation Tax Credit (HRTC) which will apply to home renovation expenditures for work performed or materials/goods purchased, after January 27, [...]
Vancouver Stagers – Join the Green Design Revolution!
The other day someone asked me why, as a stager, I thought it would be important to clients or real estate agents that a Stager understood green. It is funny, their question made me step back and I realized that the question never occurred to me because I just thought folks would automatically see [...]