Imagine you are looking at this beautiful property in Evanston, Calgary that used to be a show home. You enter the living room and see the large fireplace and windows. They are so grand, it makes the rest of the room look tiny. It would feel overwhelming in the room, like they didn’t belong. The feedback the sellers kept getting from possible buyers was: there was no room for a sofa. Buyers love a living room with a fireplace to make a room feel cozy but not if their furniture won’t fit. This was a vacant property before we staged it.
 

To properly stage a large fireplace within a small room, it’s important to keep it in perspective with the other features of the room. Stage it to ‘fit’ and therefore sell. Ideally, buyers don’t want to be left wondering how to deal with a potential problem, ie their furniture won’t fit. So you can make their lives (and therefore your sale) easier by staging the solution for them.
 

With the addition of the proper furniture, placement, and strategic use of colour, the space is bound together as one unit, creating ease and comfort. Staging allows this large fireplace to work as the feature it’s meant to be. You can see that the mantel is actually higher than the stair railing going up to the next floor. In fact, even on a step ladder, we couldn’t reach to hang the artwork. Instead, it’s leaning on the ledge.
 

Did I mention? This property sold the weekend after staging was complete. We staged Friday and it sold Sunday.
 

For more examples of the power and impact staging can create in a space, take a look at the Set Your Stage Facebook albums featuring many before and after photos of the various homes and condos that we’ve staged for sale.