When Doug the Wonder Agent first suggested the idea of staging my home to increase the odds of selling it, I was a little... hurt. As in, "what's wrong with my taste/my things/my arrangements?" My husband was equally unamused, considering that he is a professional artist and had gone to no small degree of trouble to make our home lovely. Then the lot of you sort of blew in like a cheerful flock of birds and I didn't have the time to be stuffy about it.
When you mainly used our things but more strategically displayed, I felt better. When all you left behind were the decorative plants and the pretty throw pillows, I had to admit the accessories gave the place a lot more style. Your arrangement of our furniture was actually much better than ours - for instance, we'd done the living room to maximize space, and you did it to maximize flow. Two very different things, but we threw a couple of parties with the staged layout and the new arrangement worked wonderfully.
We had tons of looky-loos before and after we met with you, but our first offer came two days after your staging, and I don't think that was a coincidence. Sadly, that offer fell through because the buyer failed to sell THEIR home, but we kept the staging, and a second offer materialized within days... and this was during the winter holidays.
It's a great offer, too, and we're heading to closing. We didn't expect either offer, to be honest - we were warned to expect six months of waiting in this market.
And I'm buying a tree for behind the couch and some red throw pillows :) Thanks for all your work, ladies!
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