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Decorate-Redecorate Offers Home Staging Training and Directories

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Selling a home right now can be difficult, but staging a home will make it much more appealing to a wider range of buyers. Decorate-Redecorate offers home staging training in addition to directories that can help home owners stage their homes to present it well online through pictures as well as to those that walk through the home.

Huntington Beach, Ca. (IPRWIRE) Wed, August 8th, 2007 — Decorate-Redecorate (http://www.decorate-redecorate.com) is happy to provide home staging training for homeowners as well as comprehensive directories of trained professionals that can do the job for the home owner. The market is very slow right now, and sellers have to get competitive if they want their home to sell at a price that is fair to them. Many homeowners assume that they cannot afford these services, but they will cost far less than keeping the house on the market for months at a time and lowering the asking price.

The problem that many homeowners have is they don’t realize how individual their tastes are. Just because our home looks good to us doesn’t mean that it will appeal to everyone. Through home staging training realtors as well as homeowners will learn that as much as 50% of the furniture in a home may need to be removed. Basically, the home has to be depersonalized. Neutral colors need to be used, and knick knacks need to be packed away, because these make the house look more cluttered and smaller. The seller needs to create the illusion of space while detracting from the less than appealing qualities of the home, and accentuating the great things.

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