The Difference Between Home Staging and Home Decorating

Home staging is not, I repeat NOT, home decorating.

Redecorating a home focuses on the seller and their personality. It makes the home more comfortable and usable for you and your family.

Home staging is not concerned with your comfort. In fact, some of the things you'll need to do when staging your home are downright inconvenient for you.

For example, keeping the kitchen counters free of EVERYTHING can mean keeping the coffee maker in a cupboard. In my house, at least, that'd be a major inconvenience.

Pet food bowls need to disappear off the floor too... a most inconvenient situation for fluffy the cat, wouldn't you say?

And family photos and other mementos that might remind a buyer that you actually live there need to be removed too.

Doesn't sound like home decorating anymore, does it?

And all this is hard to do if you love and live in the home. That's why it is often helpful to hire a professional , who will see the home with a visitor's eyes, to stage your home.