How Smart People are "Borrowing" Home Staging Instructions for Dinner Party Planning

Home Staging Instructions can be a huge help to hosts and hostesses who love to be ready to give dinner parties.

What are they all about?

Think of them as techniques for One Day Decorating. It might take a little longer than one day, but it's the opposite of a major months-long decorating project. And it's not expensive either. In fact you will spend most of your time just rearranging and editing possessions you already have.

Home Staging is the art and technique of eliminating clutter, editing and arranging your furniture and accessories, and making a stellar first impression with curb appeal.

It’s usually used to help sellers get their house into tiptop condition before putting it on the market, so it draws top dollar.

But the more I read and learned about Home Staging, the more I realized that some smart people who use it have no intention of moving. In fact they just "borrow" from it.

These smart people are treating Home Staging as a quick and easy decorating and organizing tool. They are putting its techniques to work to make their homes more livable. They're using it to create a living environment for themselves that is fresh, clean and clutter–free.

Some home sellers have even changed their minds and taken their homes off the market when they see how inviting their home had become after being staged.

So that’s why I added this Home Staging page to the Dinner Party Planning website - to give you another tool for stress-free dinner party planning.

Keep reading to see hou can actually get a nifty, easy-to-use list of Home Staging Instructions that you can print out.

Eliminate a major obstacle to stress-free dinner party hosting

Imagine if you had your home in the state you really wanted it – all the time? (Well OK, most of the time…)

How much easier it would be to entertain your family and friends if your house was the way you really want it to be. You wouldn’t have to pass up inviting people for spur-of-the-moment brunches, dinners or just to watch the big game and have snacks.

Here’s just a taste of the many techniques you can "borrow" from Home Staging

You get great checklists to make sure your lighting is working for you. Here's just a sample of the specific tips you can put to immediate use:

• get your windows sparkling
• clean your light fixture shades,
• dust light bulbs
• add a lamp or two if you need more light at night
• make sure your hallway is well lit so guests feel that the hallway welcomes them, especially in the gloom of winter
• how to group and display your treasures

Home Staging shows you how to approach this tricky question. It helps you to be ruthless about getting rid of things that don’t really serve any purpose, or furniture that you always secretly hated (maybe a piece you inherited from Aunt Martha.)

The beauty is that the instructions don't just preach at you – they show you very specifically how to do the pruning. For example, you'll get to see the benefit of renting a storage unit if you need to prune in stages. After a month or two in the storage unit, chances are pretty good you will realize it really is time to get rid of those extras.

Accessorize artistically. You’ll love the techniques for arranging your treasures to their best advantage. For example, you’ll see that items look best grouped in odd numbers. You’ll realize that effective arrangements take height into consideration, and how to do that. You’ll have more confidence about high to hang your art.

The Home Staging Technique You Won't Need

But if you’re not planning to move, you can just ignore the part that says to remove your personal photographs and so on.

Instead borrow the home staging instructions to group and display your personal photographs, trophies and other family treasures the way you always wanted them to look.

Get easy Home Staging Instructions

It feels like fun instead of work

And if you enjoy learning about arranging your space, it’s just plain fun.

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