Window Shop for Inspiration
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Do you ever feel like you're doing the same thing over and over again? That's how I feel about our family meals. We know how to make a handful of dishes relatively well and it's just a never ending rotation of the same things, week after week. Sound familiar - BORING!!! This could happen with our Staging design as well. We know what inventory we have to work with and how it could be set up. It can be a challenge sometimes to keep your design plans fresh. I was very conscious of this because I didn't want realtors to walk into one of my staged properties and say, "oh this looks just like what she did at the XYZ house". If we staged a property in town and then another property in a nearby city, I did not have a problem recreating the same look there, but NEVER in the same city where the same group of realtors would likely see the house. I was always reminding my team to change things up on every property we worked on. So what do you do when you run out of ideas? How about window shopping? I recently walked by Banana Republic and saw these two windows and had to take a photo because the first thing that popped in my mind was, that would be a great idea for Staging! If you can't tell what's in the background, they are clothing design sketches. This would be a great theme for an office. You can probably find some photos from magazines to substitute the sketches or even find a clothing design sketchbook that you can extract pages from. Framing the tear sheets would give you a more polished look. Need ideas for kitchens? Visit some gourmet cooking stores. Need ideas for bathrooms? Visit the bath department of a department store. I love visiting the china department at Bloomies or Macys to get ideas for tablescapes. Next time you're at the mall, look around and see where else you can find inspiration for your staging plans.
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