One foot out the door

Lawn sign saying “open house”
Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay

Staging is an important psychological tool — but it ain’t comfortable.

Yes, staging: the process of de-personalizing a home to make it more attractive to potential buyers.

It involves renting trendy furniture, erasing all signs of the people who actually live there, and making it possible for new folks to imagine themselves in a spacious, sparsely furnished and impossibly tidy environment.

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Recreational writer, collector of antique corkscrews, urban gardener and management consultant to social profit organizations. Proudly Canadian.

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CorkscrewAnnie

Recreational writer, collector of antique corkscrews, urban gardener and management consultant to social profit organizations. Proudly Canadian.