Synergy Staging - Portland Home Staging Blog

There are many times when stagers must work with specific items in a home .  Our Portland staging company recently staged this Canby home that was custom built in the 90's. This lovely home had been freshly painted, had a great layout and was vacant. Almost vacant...

The owners of this home requested that the custom window treatments stay.  As a result we had to ensure that the furnishings in the home tied in well with the treatments yet modernized and minimized them as much as possible.

Here are some pictures of the home after it was staged.

Have you done projects where you had to work with items of a specific taste?

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This vacant single family  home was professionally staged by Synergy Staging.  Join the Realtors, Investors, and Homeowners who call Synergy Staging to make their properties irresistible and sell quickly!  Read what our clients have said about their experience with our company.  For more tips or to see our latest home staging projects, read our Portland Home Staging Blog and visit us on Facebook.  Please call us at (503) 557-2244 for a free no obligation quote so we can help your home sell faster in 2010.

We recently had the opportunity to stage an occupied house in Portland two times and thought we'd pass along some interesting things we experienced.

Last year we were asked to do a consult and staging at a small occupied home in NE Portland.  Here are a few before and after pics from the first staging.

Bedroom used as a dining room

Second bedroom used an office

The main level had a living room, two bedrooms (see above), a bathroom and kitchen.  The lower level was a fully remodled daylight basement that was the master suite and bath.  The problem was there was no actual dining room, only a tiny nook in the kitchen. 

After much debate, the owners decided that keeping the dining room (in the bedroom) as they had it was how it would be staged.  While this layout worked great for the couple who lived there, the floorplan was a challenge for potential buyers.  We added a lounger in the office since the owner worked at home and needed to keep the office space as is.

The home was on the market for five months with no offers.  Granted, the asking price was too high according to the owners, but nonetheless, not even an offer.

They finally decided to stay put and take the home off the market.  Fade to black...

... or so we thought.

Three months later we got a call from the owners saying they'd bought a house in Lake Oswego and needed to sell as quickly as possible.  This time it was decided to stage what had been the dining room as a bedroom.  And the asking price was more realistic with the current market.

A full price offer was accepted in one week!

So was it the bedroom or the price?  We'll never know for certain - but it was an interesting experience being able to stage the same space twice with vastly different end results.

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This occupied home was professionally staged by Synergy Staging.  Join the Realtors, Investors, and Homeowners who call Synergy Staging to make their properties irresistible and sell quickly!  Read what our clients have said about their experience with our company.  For more tips or to see our latest home staging projects, read our Portland Home Staging Blog and visit us on Facebook.  Please call us at (503) 557-2244 for a free no obligation quote so we can help your home sell faster in 2010.