About Washington's Takoma Park - Dc

Wow - August was a busy month for us! We just finished our fourth home staging project this month. We have completed a 3 bedroom, 2 full and 2 half bath townhome in Fort Washington, 2 bungalow/cape cod's in Silver Spring and Takoma DC and single family house in Arlington, VA. This post will feature the work we completed on in the bungalow in Takoma DC - it was a bit of a departure from our usual more modern/contemporary staging but we feel we rose sufficiently to the challenge. Feel free to check out more work on our other blog.

Take a look at the space before we staged it...

below is how we worked own home staging magic to give the space life and possibility!

The piano pictures were a last minute ad, but seem to work really well in this house!

We enjoyed staging in the bungalow style home, common in Takoma DC, and looking forward to doing even more! If you have an empty house in DC area that needs staging - call us quick! We are almost out of inventory!

Even though many of the staging and home selling shows illustrate the positive aspect use of colors in selling homes, I rarely find that realtors and homeowners leave color on the wall while selling a home. So I was excited to be able to finally stage a home in rooms full of color! Thanks to my very active realtor/client in the DC market.

I only staged the dining room, living room and small back porch and was able to use the color to the homes advantage.

I believe the colors help to give the home an overall personality, even more than just using the furniture and accents. Selling homes with colored walls is not always a no-no, but sellers must be careful to use colors that are easily accepted by buyers! If the large mass retailers are using colors when selling furniture, that is one good indication that it is an acceptable color. Although I didn't select the colors, a certain retailer does come to mind - can you guess which one?

Last, if you are in the MD/DC area and struggling with whether to paint or not paint the walls before placing a home on the market, feel free to contact us at ra redoes rooms! We can help!

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ops...we did it again! We turned another drab and boring beige on beige space to life! This time, the massive fireplace sort of overtook the space, even though everything was the same drab beige color. So we infused color to give it life and function, in a recently remodeled single family home in NW DC. Take a look for yourself!

Before

After - with color and life!

See how much just a bit of color carefully placed can really bring a room to life! Staging brings rooms and homes to life! If you are in the DC area, ask us how to bring YOUR properties to life!