August 2022

How To Style A Picture Perfect Dining Table

By |2022-08-19T14:31:10+10:00August 19th, 2022|Behind The Scenes, DIY, DIY Home Staging, Home Improvements, Home Make Over, Home Staging General Interest, Home Staging Tips, Styling Furniture|

From round to oblong, rectangle to square, and from glass top to timber, we style dining tables of all shapes and sizes everyday when staging homes for sale. They look great, photograph beautifully, and are the kind of tables you’d see on the front cover of your favourite interior design magazine. So how is it done? What is the secret to achieving a showstopping, picture perfect dining table that adds a wow factor to any living space?  Well, we’re about to take you behind the scenes and tell you all our tips and tricks, giving you the key to [...]

The Importance Of Incorporating A TV When Staging A Home

By |2022-08-07T11:45:59+10:00August 7th, 2022|Behind The Scenes, DIY, DIY Home Staging, Home Make Over, Home Staging General Interest, Home Staging Tips, Selling Your Home, Styling Furniture|

When it comes to staging a home for sale, there are many design and styling rules that companies follow to ensure that when the house hits the market it reaches the right target audience, increases the number of potential buyers, and highlights the home’s best features while detracting from the less desirable attributes. From the selection and placement of furniture and artwork to the addition of accessories, there are many things to consider and incorporate when staging a home. While there are multiple furniture and decor pieces that all home staging companies use, there are also a few items [...]

July 2022

Foxy at Home | 83 Pear Street, Greenslopes

By |2022-09-09T15:25:52+10:00July 5th, 2022|Behind The Scenes, DIY Home Staging, Foxy at Home, Home Improvements, Home Make Over, Home Staging Tips, Vacant Home Staging|

What is Foxy at Home? Let us take you behind the scenes of styling homes for sale. At the end of the article we share the names of our furniture suppliers and retail shops, keeping absolutely no secrets when it comes to helping you fall in love with your home again! Recreate The Look 83 Pear Street, Greenslopes Featuring a spectacular view of Brisbane’s skyline, a stunning sunroom, high ceilings, and an amazing open plan living space, this beautiful, recently renovated two bedroom house in Greenslopes was a dream to stage! Being surrounded by greenery and [...]

June 2022

Cushion Do’s And Don’ts To Consider When Styling Your Furniture

By |2022-06-29T15:06:07+10:00June 29th, 2022|DIY, DIY Home Staging, Home Improvements, Home Make Over, Home Staging General Interest, Home Staging Tips, Styling Furniture|

When it comes to styling beds, couches and other furniture items in your home, the addition of pillows and decorative cushions has the power to transform a space and take it from drab to fab! From patterned to solid colours, textured to plain, small to large, and square to round, cushions allow you to achieve any desired style seamlessly and without too much of an investment. In our opinion, pillows and cushions are a non-negotiable, must-have accessory to include when we stage properties or when you style your home. If you follow us on Instagram or our other social [...]

January 2022

Cost Comparison of Home Staging – DIY vs Professional

By |2022-01-11T15:58:01+10:00January 11th, 2022|DIY Home Staging|

A beautifully presented home is one of the most important aspects of your marketing strategy, with 44% of Australian Buyers admitting to having paid more for a home just because “they really liked it”. * *Click here to read “Psychology Behind Home Buying”. However, preparing a home for sale can be a costly process, leaving a limited amount of money for the staging, which makes a lot of homeowners resort to low-cost options. --- Most people assume that DIY (Do It Yourself) Home Staging is the perfect solution for selling their home on a limited budget. After all, they [...]

June 2021

DIY Home Staging in 7 Steps

By |2021-11-29T12:57:03+10:00June 30th, 2021|DIY Home Staging|

When you’re putting your house on the market, a great presentation is the key to boosting your home’s value. The question whether home-staging actually works is almost irrelevant these days, with cities like Sydney and Melbourne making professional home-staging an ingrained, non-negotiable part of the selling process. Why should you stage your home? When making a significant decision such as purchasing a house, people tend to think they are acting from a logical standpoint. Truth is, they often don’t. They buy emotionally, whether they like to admit it or not. Staging helps buyers form that necessary emotional connection by [...]

January 2021

How To Style a Bedroom on a Budget | Without Looking Cheap

By |2021-06-23T09:08:35+10:00January 12th, 2021|DIY Home Staging|

The favourite part of our job is seeing the look on the homeowner’s face when they enter their newly staged house. It’s a mix of surprise, amazement and joy, shortly followed with “I should have had my property styled years ago!”. --- The next stage is pondering… “I wonder if I could recreate this look in my new home…”. Well guess what. Yes, you absolutely can! And there’s no need to spend thousands of dollars (even though we did, but that's because we want your house to sell quickly and for a good price). I [...]

8 Tips to Depersonalise Your Home Before Selling

By |2021-01-07T10:22:36+10:00January 6th, 2021|DIY Home Staging, Home Staging Tips|

When preparing your home for sale, decluttering and depersonalising your space is an important step in the home staging process. If you want to sell quickly and at the highest price, you need to enable the potential buyers to visualise themselves living in your house. Any visible personal items (e.g. family portraits) would cause friction in their imagination and be a constant reminder that the house they’re looking at belongs to someone else. “A properly staged house should feel warm, welcoming & homely, without the “footprint” of the previous owner.” We have put together eight tips [...]

May 2017

When Is The Best Time To Sell Your Home?

By |2019-02-12T16:43:06+10:00May 24th, 2017|DIY Home Staging, Selling Your Home|

Recently, I’ve attended several consults to help prepare a home to be listed for sale during spring. Credit to these homeowners, they are very prepared and giving themselves plenty of time to present their homes well. But I thought I would take the opportunity today to talk about why spring, with its’ flowers in bloom, green lawns and new foliage, isn’t necessarily the best or the worst time to sell. I would like to share with you, why there is no best time to sell your house, with each season bringing its own strengths.   Spring Let’s start with the [...]

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