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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband needs staging. He gets very stressed about the sizes of rooms and how functional they will be, and appropriately sized furniture that vaguely resembles what we will have helps him enormously. He will serious argue for a week about whether a table and chairs can actually fit in the open kitchen, even if we measure it and map it out and I show him how they would fit. If you just put a table there, we don't even have to have this conversation and can just focus on the actual house itself.

I think some people like staging to inspire them in how they might decorate or use space, but for us it is truly just a very practical way to get a sense of size and layout, much easier than an empty house. And yes, a bunch of antique furniture won't work as well because the scale is often very different and it gets used differently. It really is easier if they just put some bland west elm/ikea stuff in there, because then we get a sense of how a normal sized couch looks agains the long wall, or whether that kids room can actually fit two twin beds comfortably.[/quote]

Educate your husband to know that stagers use tricks like beds that have a smaller footprint than a twin bed that are put in bedrooms other than the primary.  My husband was always swayed too too much by the flash vs the substance. This happened twice when our realtor try to do quick deals when there was little inventory like a house with a basement that was so wet it was like having a pool.  I had a real fight getting him to drop interest in a house owned by a decorator that had such poor maintenance that if you looked beyond the paint and furnishings you'd see all the damage she hid. This was when the sellers market was not hot and the house was overpriced. Everything was falling apart or damaged. The realtor tried to push these houses on us knowing we might fall for the paint over the flood damage.[/quote]

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