Your home staging efforts are almost complete. You’ve de-cluttered your main living areas. The front yard has that illustrious curb appeal. All of those extras are stored neatly out of sight–until a buyer wants to see the garage. The natural pit-stop for all things clutter-related, the garage is perhaps the most challenging room for home staging, because here, there’s nowhere left to hide. So how exactly do you stage a garage when it is being used for storage? In recent weeks the furniture blog has focused on home staging, so here are some tips for doing just that. First, get rid of anything you know won’t be kept. Go ahead and sell, donate, recycle or give away anything not being kept. Home staging will be much easier if you first reduce the volume of stored items by 50%. For those items left over, use the walls of the garage for storage. A large set of furniture rental shelves placed flush against the wall will house boxes while looking orderly. One secret of home staging is that anything that is well organized tends to blend in with the background. By that logic, find stacking boxes that are all the same shape, …
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Are you running out of time for your home staging project? There is so much to do and so little time! And most of all, everything has to be perfect. You may have been told before that there is a fine line between perfectionism and procrastination. It is easy to get overwhelmed by a large project with limited time. If you are paralyzed with thought, take a breath and read on. Hope comes in the form of a little organization. Make a list of every home staging detail that needs to get done before the first showing of the house. Take time to write absolutely everything down. Then, number tasks by varying levels of importance. Label high priority things as 1, and luxuries and details as 3. Create a sliding scale of priority and then approximate how long it will take to do each task. Finally, compare it to the number of hours or days that you have, and set your crunch time schedule! Eliminate tasks that are low priority as you lose time. Don’t do away with low priority tasks altogether. Keep hustling through your to-do list so that you can get to the lower priority stuff when …
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