Marin Home Staging Blog by Picture it SOLD! Home Staging

When staging a home, most sellers are aware that the process involves addressing the main living areas, bedrooms, bathrooms, and often the oustide. But one less obvious - and certainly important - area is the closets. Today's buyers crave storage space. If they come to your house and see closets...

If your client's home has a fireplace, it is usually the focal point of the room. It follows, then, that this important feature should add to the beauty of the living space, not detract from it. A relatively quick and easy way to achieve this is to paint the fireplace bricks. Many homes where I ...

I wrote last week about "What Today's Buyer's Want." It's interesting information. But if I don't use it in my staging to help attract buyers, it's just that - interesting information. As professional stagers, we not only have to stay on top of trends, but also be able to apply what we learn to t...

Picking up where I left off in my last post, I want to share more "Trends to Watch in 2008" regarding what buyers want in a home.  Again, I learned this information from Christine Rae, the author of Home Staging for Dummies and the keynote speaker at last week's first annual San Francisco Bay Are...

     This week I attended the San Francisco Bay Area's First Annual Staging Expo in Dublin.  The keynote speaker was Christine Rae, the author of Home Staging for Dummies (hopefully the book's title does not diminish her expertise and the great content within the book).  The topic was "Trends in ...

                                                                                                                                                                        Painting your home's exterior is one of the fastest and most dramatic ways to freshen your house. But if you are going to invest ...