When you walk into a room, it tells a story.

It tells a story through the furnishing you had chosen, the color palette you had spent days to pick, and the accessories and personal items that you placed in it. Most people probably don’t realize it, but the placement of your objects can make or break your room. Your furniture placement can decide how the conversations are being conducted at your dinner parties, the traffic pattern in your daily lives and the energy flow of your
home. Brilliant accessory placements can determine conversational interests, kind reminders of your love & passion the first thing you wake up and what’s welcoming you to a comfort zone when you kick off your boring work shoes from a day of office drama.

Now you have placed everything just perfect, but is your room flatlining? Flatlining your room will make your room looks… flat. Literally. There are no

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It’s funny how as I staging people’s homes for a living and constantly nagging them to de-clutter and get organized, I am shockingly disorganized and all my papers are basically tucked in various corners of my house and stacked skyhigh on my desk. Well, not anymore. I have actually taken some steps to reclaim my office space and reclaim my sanity (also, make it easier for myself next year when tax time comes!)Well, as I have always advised my clients to remember to breathe & take baby steps, I am following my own advices. There are some crucial steps to tackle this:

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“Dressing” the home up is one of my favorite things to do in my life as a stager. A home feels so bare if there are only furnitures! In my earlier career, I didn’t realize how accessories can transform a staged home, or a living home. The way I see it, art work has several purposes:

To a staged home:

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I staged/redesign a home last Friday for sale. I re-did their bookshelves as well. I think it has become my 2nd obsession at work. (The first one is making beds. Ironically I actually don’t make beds in real life!)

Check out some of the before & after pics:

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I staged/redesign a home couple week ago to live. (one of the services that we provide is redesign to live, which means that home owners can hire us to “stage to live” or “redesign (as seen on hgtv)” their homes. it’s quite different from staging to sell, actually.).

the main differences are

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