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RECENT BLOG POSTS
  What exactly is flow, and more specifically, traffic flow, in a house or a room?  Simply, it's the ability to walk easily from room to room in a house as well as through the room without bumping into furniture or coming upon an empty space. Homes that have a good traffic flow sell faster than t...
02/13/2010
Home staging does work! A two-bedroom apartment in New York City needed to be sold, and sold quickly, because the owners were being relocated down south.  And it happened in 8 days!     But, let's start at the  beginning of this amazing success story.     The furniture in all of the rooms was not...
02/07/2010
I couldn't believe my eyes! Here was an apartment featured in the Sunday New York Times' "On the Market in New York City" column.  As I viewed the pictures of this and the other two properties online with my home staging eyes, I cringed at the thought that  someone thought it was okay to photogra...
02/01/2010
A few weeks ago, I shared with you what was in my staging kit.  I asked you what was in your kit that wasn't in mine.  I received over 40 comments on my blog and decided to consolidate your ideas into a list for all to easily see. Some of you decided to share the form of your staging kit.  Here t...
01/09/2010
Just kidding!  Of course I'll show you mine, even if you don't show me yours.  But would love to get your input on what I'm missing. I originally put together this list from a training program I took at Home Staging Resource and then added to it by reading all of the great blog posts here on Acti...
12/10/2009
Did you realize that over 90 percent of the information we receive is through our eyes?  Did you know that the paint color of a room can affect your perception of that room?    RED makes a room appear smaller, but it comes into its own when set against cool colors (blue and green).  ORANGE also m...
12/02/2009
When your home is for sale, it is now a product that needs to appeal to the greatest number of buyers.  Walls, along with the floors, are the bones of a home and they need to be in good condition and neutral in appearance so that they do appeal to the greatest number of buyers. People are heavily...
11/19/2009
We have all either seen or heard of that TV show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" where adults try to answer questions that a fifth grader could answer.  You assume the adults would know the answers because...well they're adults and have had more years of life and learning under their belt....
11/09/2009
Do you know the Top 10 Mistakes home sellers make about how they present their homes to prospective buyers?  And most home sellers also make the overriding mistake of believing that buyers "can see past this".  Well, it's simply not true.  Only 10% of prospective buyers can visualize the potentia...
10/24/2009
When selling a home, it is very important that it be light and bright.  Buyers do not respond well to dark spaces.  Here are a few home staging tips and tricks to brighten up your home:  Remove screens from windows - this lets more of the natural light through Wash the windows - seems to be commo...
10/16/2009
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