That is right and I am telling!! You know I am right and it is time to own up to it. In an editors' meeting for the Real Simple magazine office, there was a discussion on beds. They concluded that:
- Only 1 in 7 people in the room knew how to make hospital corners (hint - it has nothing to do with pushing patients in the hallways)
- No one really knew what a neck roll was for nor what you would do with a neck roll ( use has nothing to do with choker necklaces)
- No one knew if a duvet was the same thing as a comforter ( duvet does not rhyme with Corvette)
Well, real estate stagers know all that and much much more.
- Blow up beds - we don't put blow up dolls in the blow up beds, however
- How to make boxes look like mattresses
- How to use two box springs to make one bed
- The artful arrangement of bed pillows, including neck rolls
- How to casually, but tastefully toss a throw at the foot of the bed
- That old shabby and out dated bedding gives prospective buyers the idea that the house has not been well cared for
- That buying a home is often based on an emotional response and a beautifully presented bed can capture their attention
Are we bed obsessed?
Yes!!!!
Is it healthy?
It is for our clients!!
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I have to admit...it is the bedrooms I love the most too!
Here's my last (ignore the lumpy pillows):
Dane Caldwell - Downtown Toronto Decorator Home Stage
Dane,pretty - what lumps????
Elaine Manes IRIS ~ A Wonderful Space, LL
The walls are not quite as orangy as they look in the photo, but the 1/2 end wall was purple and we painted it a putty color. This room glows at night and is very inviting.
Yes, bedrooms are fun for me too. However, I've made a decision based partially on the comment above about kids jumping on beds.
I am willing to take the risk on using airbeds in the most modestly priced homes with a limited budget. But model homes are getting the real deal from now on. I saw a couple of tour homes last summer that had obviously been attacked by numerous kids before I got there. The metal pole bedframes were exposed - something that you just don't want people to see on a tour of homes.
Cindy Bryant~Houston's Home Staging & Home Stagers By Redesign
I usually use boxsprings and mattresses of the regular type but 2 boxsprings wrapped with a puffy quilt and then made up looks good and is sturdy. They sure weigh less.
It is hard to compete with blogs on stripping for Realtors.
MARY LOU TEAGUE /HOME STYLE AND STAGING KNOXVILLE, TN
WE all have our favorites, but I think beds may be #1 for many.
Hi Kathleen-
I just staged a vacant that sold in 8 days (photos will follow), and the owner thinks the Master bedroom and bath staging sold the house (even though it was upstairs)! The emotional connection for buyers is really strong in the Master bedroom!
Kathy
Kathy Riggle Houston Home Staging-Staging Smart NSold
We will all be waiting to see those photos (stagers are photo obsessed, too)
Congrats on that quick sale - whoohoo
Kristina Mosloski, KFM Staging & Design
It does take talent , funny the duvet part
Karen Hubert,CSP Hamilton and Area Home Staging
Me too every wrinkle, every pillow - just sooooooo
Maybe we really are house fluffers.
Guilty, guilty, guilty!!!There just something soo-oo so satisfying about fussing and arranging and re-arranging and stroking andpetting oopspattingobsessing oops precious........Kathleen,
I agree with many...there is a strong emotional reaction t Master Bedrooms. Even I, a home stager, have turned tail and ran when house hunting and being faced with a "unclean" master bed...it turned my stomach and I could not get past it. A otherwise beautiful house lost a sale, to me, all do to a bed.
Realtors, make sure your sellers know what all of us stagers know!
by Deborah Pearce - Living Spaces - Kelowna Home Staging & Interior Design
Give me the ring. I will take care of it for you.
Julia Worthington Martin
If a home stagers gets turned off then the sellers are really in trouble, e go where no on dares to go.
Here is a photo from a recent consult ,
that's right - bones, that was the best part.
I think all buyers like a welcoming master bedroom. We stopped doing boxes under the air matress and instead use our storage bins. When it is time to destage, the bins are already on site. The bins are also more secure so I don't worry about a bed falling. Master bedrooms and master baths are my favorites too.
Maureen Bray ~ Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR
I always do a master as well, sometimes the bedrooms are all basically the same so I pick the room with the view (hopefully there is one)