Design

Staging Your Home To Sell: Don’t Let The Furniture Match the Art

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

You’ve heard this before: never buy your art to match the sofa. True, but if you are seeking some beautiful, reasonably-priced art to stage a listing or your own home, what if there is no sofa to NOT match? Hop on over to Gallery Interiors HUGE new art sale. Owner Mark Lafferty has gotten in a…

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Staging a Home To Sell With Pets: Does It Help Get The Joint Sold? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / September 15, 2011 /

Recall our tither about staging a home for sale with our furry friends — to do or not to do, and do we take them to the Dry Bar first? Well, here we see two little peek-a-boo angels who seem to be enhancing these photos. I’m becoming more convinced that I want my dogs in…

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Does Staging With Designer Pets Help Sell Properties? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 16, 2011 /

We had this chat a couple of weeks ago, and most of you said no, don’t do it! Don’t stage your home to sell with live (designer) pets! But Dallas Realtor Kristian Peterson says yes, do it! And in fact, he does. All the time. (Here are his babies, in a condo he is selling.)…

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Do Designer Dogs Sell Properties? Staging a Home to Sell With Live Pets – Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2011 /

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…

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Undecorating: How the Undesign Trend Affects Real Estate Sales

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2011 /

In case you have not noticed it, interior design seems to be awfully sleepy these days. Robb & Stucky is in Chapter 11. The “biggest recession since the Great Depression” killed off¬† at least a dozen shelter magazines, the survivors suffering along on rations of 30 percent fewer advertising pages these last three years, according…

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