Staging in Vaughan and Toronto GTA we have many clients selling their homes that also own a business. We stage for their business  when they are producing new marketing materials online or in print. Here are a few examples of creative staging for a wood flooring company that wanted to promote their new line of custom flooring.  The first picture shows the loft room in the barn on the property where they produce the wood flooring being prepared for the photo shoot. The last picture shows the final result in a marketing brochure. If you know a business that requires staging for th ..read more

Staging in Vaughan and Toronto we generally suggest to stage the five principle rooms in a home. They would be the living room, family room, dining room, kitchen and master bedroom. We stage the foyer and bathrooms at no additional charge as an incentive to sellers to stage a second bedroom. We find if you stage an additional bedroom it adds to the emotional buy in by the potential buyers. We can present one more touch point for them to commit to a home.  Budgets are usually tight when it comes to staging a home as sellers can't understand how important it is to invest in the lifestyle of ..read more

Staging in Vaughan and King area and into Toronto we can be asked to market anything from a luxury home to a horse farm to a log home.  We must come up with looks that will attract your ideal buyers online and convince them to visit your listing to see the house in person.  Buyers generally have a list of "must have" items but we find most people still buy on emotion. They will often comment they knew the house for them as soon as they entered the property.  Here are a couple examples of the looks we can create to attract your ideal buyers for a luxury home.   We create u ..read more

We have found staging in Vaughan and the Toronto GTA area we are using more colour than neutral colours in our staging work for the last year. There is a trend for "maximilism" in our area and buyers see it every day in design magazines as well as on TV shows like The Marilyn Denis Show and Cityline.  With our exceptionally grey winters we are finding buyers are quite receiptive to a more colourful look as long as it is curated well and not overwhelming the room.  We still advise neutral wall colours like OC 27 Balboa Mist so buyers can move right in. But we find it is the use of col ..read more

Staging in Vaughan and the Toronto GTA we are asked quite frequently if it is really worth it to stage a vacant home. Home owners and agents alike ask why isn't it better to show a home vacant, doesn't it show buyers how much room there is in a home. We know from experience that buyers have a hard time envisioning the following...will my furniture fit in here or how would I set up my furniture in this room. In this home the first thing we asked the home owner to do was remove the office blinds in every room. Then we asked that the walls be painted a lighter neutral colour that buyers would lov ..read more

Staging in Vaughan and the Toronto GTA area we don't typically stage dining tables with complete table settings as most people never use their dining room except at holiday time. We will stage with a simple table decor like these table settings to create a warm and inviting ambiance in a room... What do you find is the norm in your area? Do you set the table with place mats, dishes, glasses, silverware, napkins etc.? Or do you find a simple, warm and inviting vignette sets the stage to attract your ideal buyers online? When you are looking to prepare your listing to attract buyers onli ..read more

We are so lucky to work from downtown Toronto in modern condos to the small towns like Alliston and Thornton with beautiful character Victorian homes. We provided a staging consultation at 10 Robert Street in Thornton and the home owner carried out the suggestions perfectly. Staging is about evoking an emotional attachment with a home. Buyers will always provide a list of wants but typically they buy with their hearts. A home is an emotional buy, you will hear a buyer say they knew it was the house for them as soon as they walked in the door. We like to create a look that you would see on Pint ..read more

Staging in Vaughan and the Toronto GTA we come across our fair share of homes that have an old piano where  the sellers don't know what to do with it. Either the piano hasn't been played in years and is there for sentimental reasons only or it is played but it really could use a style update to fit in to the design look of today. Here is a super idea we suggest to the sellers if they are not donating it or selling it before the house goes on the market. We prefer to show space in a room to potential buyers but you are going to love the transformation a bit of chalk paint can provide. Chal ..read more

Staging in the Vaughan and Toronto GTA area we come across the issue of scratched wood floors quite frequently.  Wood floors are the most popular flooring choice with home owners and they are hard to keep looking in good condition with daily living. We have found the pack of 3 furniture markets from a dollar store do a wonderful job of making the floors look good. The pack comes in light, medium and dark colours to suit most floors. Check out these results on one of our latest staging jobs.     Unfortunately they don't have a gray marker yet but we use a piece of walnut to ..read more

Staging in the Vaughan and GTA area we know the value of staging closets to attract your ideal buyers online. Very few people keep their closets in an organized way. We motivate sellers to stage their closets as it is an important marketing tool that gets buyers to say "this is the home for me" and put an offer in. Our analogy is simple. Ikea is one of the masters of keeping a home organized. They pay a large number of staff to keep the shelves in order each and every day as they know people will spend more money in their store if they can show them the answerof how to organize their hurr ..read more