The Moving Blues
What is a home stager’s worst nightmare? One might imagine that the hardest part of the job is a sofa that won’t fit through the door or newly refinished hardwood floors that have not yet dried before the open house event. Actually, our home stylist Sydney often tells...
The Cosmetic Difference
If you don’t happen to be buying or selling property, watching the way the migration of home-owners moves around the greater Sydney area can be an entertaining pastime. It’s not football, but it has its moments. The suburbs we think of as Sydney’s Inner West are...
The Boomer Market – Dream Bigger
If your sales team -- your selling agent and your Sydney home staging expert -- tell you that your home could be very attractive to baby boomers you’re in luck. Among the home-buyers in Australia today, baby boomers – those born after the Second World War and before...
Stay Calm and Stage Smarter
If you read the newspapers, you might imagine that the real estate market in Sydney has come to a screeching halt. You might think that the bottom has fallen out of the housing market and the sale prices for houses in our area are in free fall – but you’d be wrong....
Staging Your Small Space – The Furnishing Element
While not every older person is looking to simplify life, or join the race to catch up with all the fun they missed while they were raising their children – seniors are generally looking for something of a lifestyle change. They recognise that with retirement come...
Saving Time – Saving Money
Keeping a tight leash on housing renovation costs can be a big challenge. Often, homeowners who are preparing their houses for sale find themselves up to their ears in cost overruns. Those who are conversant in the work of styling properties, on the other hand, know...
Refocus Your House’s Appeal
As planning commissions quibble over how many apartment buildings must be added to Greater Sydney, bureaucrats realise that our growing city is in need of more and better housing options. Senior citizens who are busy with property styling Sutherland Shire homes in...
Leverage Your Little Space
Today’s baby boomers are retiring, leaving their suburban homes, and looking for new digs nearer the city. Downsizing seniors want to exchange maximum upkeep with fewer household chores to keep them chained to the house on weekends. They want more freedom to enjoy...
Optimal Colours for Your Home and How They Affect Your Mood
Colour can dramatically affect our mood and behaviour. With such a powerful impact on our mind and body, colour is an important factor to consider when deciding how to design, decorate and paint the interior spaces in your home. People’s different colour responses and...
Judging a Book by its Cover
We often talk about the importance of ‘street appeal’. The first real-life look a potential buyer get of your house is a critically important part of the love story that happens between a buyer and his house. (Cue Roberta Flack singing “The First Time Ever I Saw Your...
How to Find the Right Home Stylist
While the housing bubble in Sydney hasn’t quite burst, it is slowly deflating, which means homeowners have to do everything they possibly can to attract a maximum number of buyers and to sell their properties quickly for a top price. Many are flocking to a home...
How House Stylists Primp Your Home to Sell
There’s no doubt that the Sydney property market is a fickle beast that has slowed down considerably over the past months due to the banks tightening their lending standards after the Banking Royal Commission. This means homeowners have to go to further lengths than...
Increase Your Property’s Resale Value Using Advantage Styling
It can be a challenge to understand exactly what generates a home's value when there are so many different factors behind the final figure achieved. However, there’s one thing agents and home stagers know about the psychology of selling: it helps enormously to use...