Home Staging Redesign

Redesign Your Home for Staging — Most likely you have set and decorated your home according to your needs, activities, and your specific taste. Remember, buyers do not necessarily have the same purpose, needs, and desires for home setting and decorating selections as you. You may want to consider the paint color and decorations that are appealing to majority of your potential buyers.

Color coordination throughout the home makes it look bigger and more appealing. You may also consider removing all the items that make your home personalized. Follow the rule of “less is more.”

The best way to evaluate your home is to have a trained designer who has in-depth knowledge of products, materials and finishes, in addition to creative eye and artistic flair, to look at your home objectively. This consultation will give you lots of important information that may help you in your future home setting and decoration as well. A designer may also help you with the lighting placement which plays a significant roll in a staged home.

Creating new spaces, for staging purpose, does not have to reflect your personal taste and style. It needs to be attractive, and to have an open flow so you can comfortably walk through the house. The furniture needs to be proportional to the space to create cozy and inviting spaces. In some cases the number of displayed furniture need to be minimal to visually make the rooms feel larger.

But if you are remodeling or building a new home for your own use it is different than staging a home. You want your living spaces reflect your personal taste and style. It needs to be comfortable and functional in addition to being aesthetic and attractive. Your home needs to fit your way of living as well as other members in the household. Good design satisfies the needs of all ages living in a home. A designer's job is to address all these issues.

In addition, the look and feel of the environment we create can have a great influence on our mood and sense of health and happiness. Designing spaces and interior design is not all about creating beautiful spaces, with beautiful color, furniture, fabric, and decorative accessories. It is also involves applying fire, safety, and building code requirements, as well as all the technical aspect of selecting safe materials for building safe and functional pieces and spaces. A functional home needs to start with good space planning, and to utilize good lighting, air circulation, temperature control, acoustics, sufficient storage and organizational system.

Also, designing for people with special needs, requires applying proper specifications for height of the countertops, light switches, knobs and cabinets, accessibility to the closure for windows and window treatments, the traffic flow and the sufficient spaces to maneuver around and across the rooms. The following are examples of what are not good choices for a person on a wheelchair. Top loading clothes washer, high cabinetry, stove controls located up high or on the back end of the stove (fire hazard reaching over open fire), carpet and area rugs (wheels leave skid mark, and not easy to maneuver on).

Whether you are staging or remodeling, you also want to take the style and period of the house under consideration. In most cases, overall interior of the house should reflect the style of the house.

no matter what type or what size your design project is, consulting with an experienced designer who has aesthetic, practical and technical expertise, can help you to create the spaces you imagine and desire, for your life style, or for the purpose of staging and selling your home.