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Is there anything better than walking into a fresh, clean space? One of our most frequently used staging items in the kitchen is lemons. Lemons evoke a clean, fresh feel and if they’re real, they can be made to let off a gorgeous scent. This hack...

When we live in a home, we make it functional to suit our personal needs and lifestyle. When we sell our home, we want to make it functional and suit a broad range of lifestyle needs. For instance, it may have worked to turn your garage...

If you have wall-to-wall carpet in your property and updating with wood or vinyl isn’t an option, we highly recommend having your carpets professionally cleaned! Having your carpets cleaned helps to not only enhance the look of the room and removed dirt and stains, it also...

Our goal in staging is to highlight the features of the home. One of the biggest features a property has to offer is windows. Buyers want to see big, bright (and clean) windows. A challenge we are often presented with is curtains. While curtains are certainly...

It happens often: we’re about to get in line to pay for groceries and we remember ‘light bulbs!’. So we grab a pack of 4-60W LED energy savers. But when we get home, they don’t match! As stagers, we see mis-matching LED bulbs quite often. While...

Do you have an “I’ll get to it” list? Don’t worry, most homeowners do! However, there are some little details that can overlooked. Switch and electrical plates can become brittle, cracked & discoloured over time. Maybe they’ve been painted over and are now peeling or have...

A quick weekend tip for preparing your home to sell, or if you’ve caught the spring cleaning bug: don’t forget the light fixtures! Spring cleaning or selling your home is a great time to remove the dust, marks or little critters that may have collected over...

Updates: one of the tricky topics stagers (and real estate professionals) sometimes need to navigate with a seller. It’s easy to redecorate a home, have 20 years pass buy and not realize your property is out of date! The truth is, updating your property keeps the...

We see a lot of properties where the TV is the focal point and has been installed on the wall or fireplace mantle as such. This is the current trend, so we’re never surprised. More often than not, clients are posed with the task of arranging...