Whether we are staging a home, adding to our office or preparing an event, planning the arrangement of our furniture can be quite puzzling. While CORT offers services to help bring together approved stagers and consumers, for the do-it-yourself planner, we’d like to provide a few recommendations to help you artfully provide a look, feel and ambiance to your space of choice. In our previous home staging blogs, we emphasized a minimalistic approach. Minimalism has another distinguishable advantage: improving traffic flow. This will be especially important with large gatherings of people. Visualize the main path of traffic from the central focus and use of the room to individual exit points. Furniture that impedes flow might need an alternative placement to allow for an unobstructed route. Start big by arranging your largest piece of furniture first. In most cases, this is a couch, bed, desk or table. When planning your home furniture rental, visualize or draw out the placement in relation to the key focal point of the room but not cluttered around it, as this draws too much eye away from the ambiance. Provide balance with other large furnishings by keeping them separate and incorporating smaller, related items such as …
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Many of you may have caught a glimpse of CORT’s newest line of home staging furniture for offices in last week’s episode of The Celebrity Apprentice. For their most recent challenge, the contestants used our office furniture to stage a television commercial set. While the celebrities worked with minimal room on their set, it had us thinking about how all small office conditions could be best optimized and staged to promote the appearance of a professional and comfortable office environment. As we have mentioned countless times on the furniture blog, eliminating clutter is a crucial first step to maximizing your staging space. File away all loose paper and books on shelves and in cabinets. It is also important to hide all awards and personal accolades, as well as items with the current company branding. Depersonalizing the space will keep eyes from focusing on one particular part of the room. It is important that the office is seen as one continuous when taken in at a glance. Choose lighter, neutral tones for your walls and furniture to complete this home staging look. Keep the office looking as minimalist as possible, however it should still embody humanistic qualities. Neatly display office supplies, such …
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We’re back this week with more great do-it-yourself home staging tips on the furniture blog. Even if hiring a professional stager is not an option in your budget, there are plenty of techniques you can and should take care of on your own. You don’t need to have a brilliant eye for design to handle these basics of staging a home to sell. Don’t underestimate the power of a clean, de-cluttered, de-personalized home that looks streamlined and modern to potential buyers. There are no do-overs when it comes to first impressions, so make it count by showcasing your home’s best features and potential. CORT is lucky to be considered a friend of professional home stagers, because they count on us for great home staging furniture. This relationship means we enjoy access to expert tips and information. We recently invited our stager friends on Twitter to share some cool home staging tips for us to share on the furniture blog. We’ll share a couple of those today, and want to remind readers that we’re still accepting submissions! Tell us your favorite staging idea or about a recent success story, and you may see your tale featured in a future furniture blog …
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Last week, the goal of our furniture blog post was to inspire you to consider making small changes in home decorating and furniture arrangement. Trying something different can do wonders for the look and feel of your space, whether you’ve moved into a new home or you’re just hoping to refresh a long lived-in abode. It starts with learning as much as you can about how to position furniture in a visually and mentally pleasing way. Think about creating a healthy relationship between different items in a room, from clearance furniture to accessories and artwork. Consider the day-to-day function of a room before choosing which type of balance you want to achieve within it. With symmetrical balance, there’s two of everything. It’s a very restful strategy that works well in bedrooms (like placing identical night stands at either side of the bed). Meanwhile, add exciting visual motion and interest with an asymmetrical approach. Two flower vases of slightly different sizes placed next to each other on a countertop is its own worthy form of balance. Our next bit of furniture blog advice is to customize your furniture arrangement based on the shape of the space you have to work with. …
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As many of our furniture blog readers know, we at CORT are big fans of the home staging industry. A couple weeks ago we mentioned CORT would claim the top VIP sponsor slot at the Real Estate Staging Association international conference in Las Vegas this year. Well, the big event took place earlier this week (beginning Sunday Jan. 23 through Tuesday Jan. 25), and it was a great success. Home stagers from all over converged at the Treasure Island resort for three days of learning and networking with industry leaders. A panel of expert guest speakers enlightened the attendees on a variety of topics. Notable presenters included Dan Eason, Alice T. Chan and Jackson West, with a keynote speech by none other than Matthew Finlason of HGTV show The Stagers. Home staging topics ranged from inventory management, sales influence and growing your business, to creative discussions of color trends and use of accessories to make any home pop. There were ample opportunities to network at the conference, which was a learning experience in and of itself for attendees. Of course, CORT had a major presence at the event. Our home staging furniture is a fantastic, convenient option for stagers across …
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In many of our furniture rental blog posts, we refer to the broad selection of styles available in CORT’s huge inventory of rental and clearance furniture. We believe in good design and offering pieces that deliver in terms of both form and function. With such a diverse customer base, it’s crucial that we stock furniture pieces that suit many different tastes. Ultimately, we have American furniture designers to thank for dictating the interior style trends we embrace every day. The contemporary furniture design field is converging to discuss the state of the industry this month at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. The series of panel discussions, called “The Home Front: American Furniture Now,” will run through April. It will be guest curated by Surface Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dan Rubinstein and feature speakers ranging from retail store owners to architects and educators. The goal is to allow voices representing varying sides of the industry a chance to engage with each other and the public. The first discussion, featuring a round table of retail taste-makers, took place on Jan. 13. It was an opportunity for designers to understand how to get noticed by retail venues, in terms of …
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Here at CORT, we appreciate all the ways furniture improves our lives. This furniture rental blog focuses on the various services and modern products we offer to make your life easier during transitions. We provide exceptional rental and clearance furniture, plus a wealth of related services to business owners, relocated employees and home sellers, to name a few. Furniture is what makes any housing scenario, even the most temporary, feel like home. We want to show our appreciation by sharing interesting news coverage in our furniture rental blog. This week, our story focuses on some truly revered pieces of historic American furniture. Lawrence, Wisconsin furniture restoration specialist William Robillard is currently working with a crew to restore government furniture in the U.S. House of Representatives. The goal of this two-month project to keep these pieces of American history looking top-notch through the years. He recently spent a day working on the desk of House Speaker John Boehner. “The margin for error is approaching zero,” Robillard told The Post-Crescent, a Wisconsin newspaper. “There’s an expectation that the work you are doing is of the highest level.” The team is working busily in the lower level of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, …
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Since 1996, we’ve been serving our country by providing government furniture rental to various agencies. CORT has a specific sales team dedicated to working directly with these accounts, supporting all sorts of government initiatives that require temporary furnishings. The flexibility and convenience of renting is unbeatable for government agencies, businesses and families alike— we’ll simply pick up the furniture when it’s no longer needed. It’s also more cost-efficient than purchasing furniture, as long-term asset costs are significantly lower when you rent. CORT has delivered on over 4,000 government furniture leases to federal agencies and the military, so we understand the special requirements and unique challenges of these operations. With all that experience, we’re able to expertly manage all facets of a project, from space planning to installation. From start to finish, trained CORT professionals are dedicated to providing the best service. Whether the need is for furnishing training centers, recruitment centers or judicial trials, CORT can help. Government furniture rental is also ideal for getting government offices through renovations, temporary projects or delay of permanent furniture delivery. Beyond the workplace, we serve government officials and other employees with residential furniture rental. These individuals enjoy free private sector housing location, free …
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CORT is in the unique position to serve the broad-scale logistic needs of large organizations requiring national business furniture. Our furniture rental services expertly serve single families, government agencies and major corporations alike. We have the resources and experience to support businesses in everyday needs, or during transitions. For example, earlier this year we served the U.S. Census Bureau by furnishing hundreds of temporary offices in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Over 80% of Fortune 500 companies rely on CORT for office furniture rental and more. Our national account furniture program is designed to make complex logistics as simple as possible, backed up by our Personal Service Guarantee. Our national business furniture accounts have access to an expansive inventory, flexible terms and value pricing that only a resource-rich company like CORT can provide. Everything is simplified with one point of contact assigned to each account, to make addressing any need straightforward and efficient. A National Account Coordinator can help with anything from relocating an employee to setting up for a trade show or other special event, anywhere across the country. Signing up for our national business furniture rental program is hassle-free. Establish a line of credit with us once, …
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Incorporating furniture rental into your company’s relocation services package can make an impact on the success of an employee deployment. To encourage your top talent that relocation for a special project (or otherwise) is the right choice, provide relocation services that will ease this tough transition for the employee and his or her family. You may be surprised to learn all the ways that furniture rental can help alleviate the stresses of an international move. In terms of logistics, convenience and comfort, CORT furniture rental is a service that every company should consider offering in relocation policies. Most likely, the living space your employee is moving to abroad will be smaller than the one they are leaving behind. Beyond the high costs of shipping bulky household goods and furnishings, there is a chance these items won’t fit proportionately in the new home. Furnished housing or furniture rental solutions from CORT take the pressure off the employee in terms of locating and coordinating home furniture, accessories and other goods. CORT has a global presence and plenty of experience delivering professional relocation services. Because we’re used to working with and accommodating different cultures, we’re in the unique position to connect relocated employees …
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