Home Staging

What Accessories Does a Stager Use?

Stagers bring in a vast array of items to spruce up the house. Here is a small sampling of items professional stagers often use to dress each room. How they are utilized is limited only by the creativity and vision of the stager.

• Mirrors
• Plants
• Silk Flowers
• Floor and Table Lamps
• Area and Throw Rugs
• Small Love Seats
• Ottomans
• Afghans
• Pillows
• Inflatable Queen-Size Beds
• Baskets
• Plastic Tables & Chairs

Professional Staging Tricks & Tips

The idea behind staging is to allow rooms to show themselves. "If your home is vacant, it's soulless,". "Without staging it could remain on the market for many months."

Try these simple ideas to improve the look of your kitchen, the "heart of the home."

• Apply orange oil to cabinets that appear dry, which will renew their original luster.
• Put out large bowls of fruit such as polished apples, bright oranges, luscious grapes.
• Arrange colorful and fun cookbooks on the counters.

Bring the outdoors inside through the use of greenery and plants; in creating clean, crisp spaces and arranging furniture with plenty of room to walk around.

Bathrooms are essential to dress well. "Bathrooms should look open, airy and delightful." One trick is to add baskets filled with spa treatments such as:

• Towels, tied with ribbons
• Scented soaps
• Creamy lotions
• Moisturizing & facial jars

The back yard needs staging, too. For patios and decks, bring in plants and potted flowers, and add additional color by setting the picnic table with bright, plastic dinner plates.