Joshua Tree Real Estate - Home Staging (Parts 7 & 8)
Wow .... busy day yesterday. Got up early to help with the park cleanup for National Public Lands Day. We were there to help register the nearly hundred people there. Then I went out with a group to pickup trash in the Hidden Valley area.
Then off to an appointment to list a 5 acre piece of property.
Then out to the Gramfest to help man the Joshua Tree Chamber of Commerce sponsored bar.
No complaining here though, if was a great .... fun day.
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Then off to an appointment to list a 5 acre piece of property.
Then out to the Gramfest to help man the Joshua Tree Chamber of Commerce sponsored bar.
No complaining here though, if was a great .... fun day.
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Here are parts 7 & 8 of the 13 parts of the article I found on Home & Garden Televison's (HGTV) website (www.hgtv.com), "Secrets of Stagers - 13 Ways to Make Your Home Look Like a Million Bucks" by Leah Hennen.
7. Let the Sun Shine In
"We almost always take off old, heavy drapery and put something light, airy, and gauzy in its place," says Russell. This ushers in natural light and makes a previously closed-in space seem larger. Simple sheers on a tension rod are great for screening an unattractive view and providing a bit of privacy but still letting in lots of light and visually enlarging a room. If you have lovely vistas from a set of windows, try doing away with treatments altogether. If privacy is paramount, top-down, bottom-up Roman shades will block the neighbors’ view of your bathtub but still let you gaze at the sky while you soak. Lisa LaPorta favors bamboo or parchment shades and simple curtain panels made from fine cotton twill or translucent linen – all of which let light stream in during the day, provide privacy at night, and add touchable texture to a room. Or consider investing in Christopher Breining’s favorite window treatments: Sheer fabric shades with built-in blinds (Hunter Douglas offers several options).
"They look great and offer so much versatility," he says. Other window-treatment tips: If windows are narrow, extend curtain rods a foot or so on each side to suggest width. If your ceilings are low, hang rods right at the ceiling line and consider window treatments with vertical stripes to create the illusion of height.
8. Light the Way
One of the things that make staged homes look so warm and welcoming is great lighting design. As it turns out, many of our own homes are improperly lit–either we have too few fixtures, or our lighting is too dim or too harsh (or all of the above). To remedy the problem and make your home more inviting, increase the wattage in your lamps and fixtures (aim for a total of 100 watts for every 50 square feet). Then install dimmers so you can vary light levels according to your mood and the time of day. This is a relatively simple project for a do-it-yourselfer, or you can hire an electrician for a couple of hours to do several at once. (And while you’re at it, be sure to replace those dingy, almond-colored light-switch covers with crisp white ones. New covers cost less than a buck apiece and are a quick, easy update.)
Don’t depend on just one or two fixtures per room, either. It’s just as important to layer lighting as it is to have sufficient wattage, Breining points out. So go for ambient (general or overhead), task (pendant, undercabinet, or reading), and accent (table and wall) lighting. "A combination of overhead, floor, table, and accent lighting creates great ambience," the San Francisco stager says. "Having lights on different planes provides good illumination and makes the room interesting." One thing that’s always in Breining’s bag of tricks: uplights. "You can buy one for as little as $5 at home-improvement stores and hide it behind a potted plant–it creates incredible drama." Another hint: Place mirrors, silver or glass bowls, or other reflective objects near lamps to bounce light around the room and make it glow even more.
Tomorrow: Make a Splash with Color
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