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Everyone has tastes, and everyone has an opinion about other people’s tastes. However, in home staging, all that personal taste is out of the window.

In home selling, sellers often get defensive. It’s completely OKAY to LIVE with your orange tigger print on regular leopard print, but just because you like it doesn’t mean buyers will too. One of the biggest myths that I hear is that “oh, it’s all about the type of furniture I put in” or “I just need to cram in as much furniture as possible to show how big the room really is” or “as long as I declutter and depersonalize and stack everything neatly, it’s fine.”
Frankly, we are in the business of selling houses and square footage, not furniture. Furniture only really has about 15% in impacting the overall staging effects of the sale, majority has to do with a) the FEELINGS of Functionality of space and b) Being at Home, given pricing and location are both excellent.

Home staging has nothing about your taste or mine, what it matters is if the house appeals to buyers to get the best prices and sell in the least days on market.

It is OKAY to stage your own listings for sale, BUT please do make sure that when you do, you are not just piling furniture into the space. That’s the #1 lethal mistake that I see when people stage their own listings. Do it right, stage it warm and classic, more importantly, make it feel like home without the feeling of feeling bogged down with mundane everyday life stuff like taking out the trash or putting the toilet seats down.