One foot out the door
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.
We’re in the process of selling our home, and our realtor rightly suggested that we may just have too much stuff. And much of it is, ahem, stuff that may not be to everyone’s taste.
Of course, we love it, and of course, she’s right. Our marital home is the result of combining two households in midlife, with an added layer of inheriting bits and pieces with sentimental value as grandparents and parents downsized.
So all our comfy, earth-toned, antique stuff went into storage, and was replaced with an amazingly angular collection of light-coloured, glass and metal, mid-century modern pieces that are … well, let’s just say, not conducive to relaxing?
After two weeks in this foreign landscape, we have grazed shins — things just…
