Our 2012 Seattle Home Staging Statistics & Fun Facts

2012 Seattle Staged To Sell Home Staging Statistics

A Happy New Year to all of you and welcome to 2013! As usual, THANKS to an outstanding and dedicated team as well as YOU, our clients, we had an amazing 2012. It is always exciting for us to look back at this time of the year and see how we have grown as a company and as people. I'd like to take this opportunity to share some of our 2012 successes with you. Let's start with some 2012 fun … [Read more...]

Emerald – 2013 Pantone Color of the Year is About Harmony & Prosperity

Seattle Interior design colors of 2013

  2012 Pantone color of the year, Tango-Tangerine, was all about  intense and firry energy . In 2013 as we say good bye to this bold color, we are saying hello to the new Pantone color - Emerald 17-5641.   Emerald 17-5641 is a rich, bright, and uplifting color symbolizing growth, prosperity, rebirth and harmony. Green is associated with positive energy in which it gives us the ability to … [Read more...]

Seattle Home Staging – Preparing a Magnolia Home for Sale

Staging a Seattle home in Magnolia

Recently we were asked to stage a unique and updated traditional home in Magnolia, one of Seattle's charming neighborhoods. For us at Seattle Staged To Sell, staging homes in Magnolia is just a blast.  After our initial visit, we identified both the challenges and the highlights. This is how we addressed them all:  Challenges:  This Magnolia home had one bedroom on each floor - this … [Read more...]

Holiday Decorating Tips for Homes for Sale

Holiday decorating tips for homes for sale

Holidays are about families, getting together, buying presents, and expressing our sense of style and merriment with our holiday decorating. Most importantly, we want to be having fun while doing all these things. However, such activities can be somewhat challenging, and perhaps even unpleasant, if trying to sell one's home during the holidays.   It's true that the process of selling your home … [Read more...]

All Year Around Garden & Curb Appeal

winter gardens for homes for sale

Just because it may be wet and cold outside, that doesn't mean that you can’t have outside focal points and interest in your gardens.  Nor does it mean that you can't achieve an attractive curb appeal. It’s easy to have a year round garden here in Northwest. There are many steps that you can take and there are an abundance of plants and shrubs that you can choose from to brighten up your … [Read more...]

Why We LOVE Our Seattle Based Home Staging Business Model

Seattle Home Staging

Not all homes are alike and this is why here at Seattle Staged To Sell, we design and stage each home uniquely and stay away from a formula design where house after house, the design basically remains the same with little or no variation. It is true that using such a formula would save a lot of time and labor, but we prefer to take our time and spend the additional labor costs to achieve the best … [Read more...]

Seattle Home Staging – Preparing Houses For Sale

Seattle home staging

Seattle home staging prepares homes for sale and helps home owners to achieve their sale goals and sometime even surpass it. When you are preparing your home to put it on the market for sale, you need to keep these facts in mind: Your home will be competing fiercely with the other houses on the market. Homes going on the market is like being on a beauty pagent and the prettiest one wins. Ask … [Read more...]

Staging A Magnolia Neighborhood Contemporary Home

Staged Magnolia house with water views

Lately we, at Seattle Staged To Sell, have been busy staging lots of homes in one of Seattle's favorite neighborhoods, Magnolia.    Our latest staging project in Magnolia was this contemporary home with the views of Ballard Canal. As residents of Seattle, we consider ourselves lucky that we have the choice of having so many different water view homes. For me personally, I love active … [Read more...]

Queen Anne Neighborhood Craftsman Home Staging – A Builder’s Own Home

Staged Craftsman Style home in QUeen Anne

Queen Anne Neighborhood Craftsman Home Staging - A builder's own home where every detail has been taken care of beautifully! The Queen Anne neighborhood, a sought after Seattle darling of areas, sits on a hill close to the downtown area with a lot of old charm of its own. An abundance of Craftsman Style homes is one the most charming aspects of this neighborhood. However, I have come to know that … [Read more...]

A Heartfelt Letter from Our Mercer Island Home Seller

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or some home sellers, it can be difficult to sell their home and close a chapter of their lives. I think most of us can identify with this since we all have gone through similar emotions for one reason or another. This was true for this Mercer Island home seller, our dear client Andrea.  For myself, as an example, it was hard to replace the baby cots with "all grown up" beds as my daughters were … [Read more...]