When a property is going to be occupied while it is on the market, other than needing to keep things a little neater than you may be used to, staging should have minimal impact on your day to day life. Good staging should not just make the home look appealing, it should show practical (if somewhat idealized) use of the spaces. This can include finding creative ways to function with the daily clutter of our lives.
Can providing lockbox access for your stager earn you a better look? YES! When our designers are on a tight time frame to meet an agent or homeowner at a specific time it can cause rushed pulling. Allowing us the flexibility can gain us that additional 15 minutes to make sure we’re bringing just the right things, and not just the things that were close enough.
Area rugs are not just a key part of staging, but can make the difference between a cohesive welcoming look and a disjointed cold assemblage of furniture. Not only do area rugs help ground and group furniture, but in large open concept floor plans they can help define spaces. When used in formal dining rooms they add warmth and friendliness. Area rugs are also a great way to introduce a color scheme to an otherwise neutral palette, or an excellent tool
Happy holidays from the OnStage team! Are we really at the end of December? Gone are the days of the slow sleepy holiday real estate season. We’re staging like mad and properties are still flying off the market. Our current schedule has us booked into the end of the first week of January, so please keep us posted on your upcoming listings. On a similar topic, we are excited to be adding to both our design
We always say that there is a fine line between decorating and staging, but what exactly is that line? Mainly, decorating is design meant to appeal to a small group or even just one person. Staging is design geared to appeal to the widest audience possible. For example, when decorating someones home it can be ok to treat each room with it’s own look, style or feel. In staging, we aim for a cohesive consistent look
How much furniture, art, and accessories can you fit into a 20,ooo sq ft warehouse? We’re about to find out! After years of storing our inventory list in 3 collective brains, we are joining the modern age and cataloging and inventorying our “stuff”. Tedious, somewhat painful, a little mind numbing, and did we mention tedious? But, in the end we’ll be organized and efficient! Undertaking this monumental task will allow us to be able to deliver
The strangest attitude that we encounter is that only large high price point properties need staging. We find that low price point/ smaller properties often benefit the most from staging. We recently staged a one bedroom 550 square foot home in North Portland’s Cully neighborhood. The homeowner decided to try selling the home vacant. After two months on the market and practically no showings he followed his Realtors’ advice and had us stage the home.
In today’s competitive real estate markets, no longer is home staging a luxury. It’s an investment. Our perfected and proven home staging process will sell your home faster, maximize potential offers, and reduce the stress of the selling process.
OnStage Seattle
720 Thomas Avenue
Renton, WA 98057
Serving the greater
Seattle & Tacoma areas!
OnStage Portland
3006 N Wygant Street
Portland, OR 97217
Serving the greater Portland &
Vancouver, WA areas!
In today’s competitive real estate markets, no longer is home staging a luxury. It’s an investment.
Our perfected and proven home staging process will sell your home faster, maximize potential offers, and reduce the stress of the selling process.
Serving the greater Portland & Vancouver, WA areas
