Art is very personal for every home owner…
The way you hang your art for personal taste is very different than PRES stagers do for staging.
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PRES Staging Students Transformed this Home!
We recently held our last PRES staging and redesign training class for 2013 and the students were absolutely amazing! When you get a group of women together we don’t always agree on where things should go, or what should go in what room – but we all agree that the…
Best Paint Colours For Selling Your Home
In the past 10 years the Exterior and Interior color trends have not changed much. Look around at any of the new developments or in home decor magazines and you will start to get an idea of what the trend is. If you are in the market now or the…
Do I Really Have to Remove all the Family Photos & Religious Icons?
Home stagers need to have tact and sensitivity when it comes to asking the seller to pack up all of their beloved family photos and religious icons. It can be emotionally challenging for some sellers and we must be encouraging and also empathic to help them do their prepack. My…
This themed ‘Romance Room’ got a spacelift!
Having a theme for rooms in your home can be a great idea and help you stay focused on the end styling result. As one of the PRES staging training homes our client offered her home for the one-day home makeover we call ‘redesign’. She had beautiful things and a…
Is Choosing Paint Colours for Commercial Exteriors That Different Than Residential?
PRES home stagers are often making residential paint colour choices for both interiors and exteriors. Making the right colour choices for the exterior can actually be more stressful than for the interior because it’s that true FIRST IMPRESSION! And if a buyer doesn’t like it…they may not even come in…
PRES LOVES Tomboy Tools!
Tomboy Tools are fantastic and they are pink! If you need and want tools made specifically for women these are for you. They are great for home stagers, decorators, designers, handy women and any women who likes to have her own tools. Laurie McLean of Handy Granddaughter is selling these…
Renting Art In North Vancouver is Easy Peasy!
Renting original art in North Vancouver just got easier! There are many great rental furnishing stores in the Lower Mainland, Fluff Rentals being one of our favourite since it has one-stop shopping staging home decor rentals for entire homes. However, if you are looking for a one-of-a-kind original art then…
Make sure you highlight the best architectural features when selling…
‘The way you live in your home, is not the way you sell your house’ has been a PRES staging mantra for over 10 years now. We were staging this gorgeous heritage home in Vancouver and wanted to highlight the best architectural features. Currently you don’t really notice them. The…
Remember the way you live in your home is not the way you sell your house…
The ‘real function’ of a room is the key to attracting a buyer’s eye! It’s a proven fact that most buyers are not good at visualizing what their furniture will look like in the homes they are viewing. This is why it is so important to create rooms that represent…