If the first thing buyers see when they enter your home is a bathroom, keep the bathroom door closed. Toilets and drains take energy from a room, so keep the...

Buyers generally decide whether they will buy a home in the first seven seconds they spend there, so you want them to see the best room first. Create a clear...

While clearing out the packed coat closet, consider what season your home is portraying, which helps people picture themselves moving in now. If there are lo...

Of course you adore your kids and those pictures from your wedding no matter how many years ago it was. But it’s difficult for people to envision themselves ...

What’s one of the best parts of the room? Maybe it’s the big windows with lake views. So why is there a sofa blocking that great source of natural light? Mov...

Furniture that runs from one end of a wall to the other shrinks the room. The key is to reveal more wall and floor space. For example: if you have a sofa on ...

Along with staging comes CLEANING, CLEANING, and CLEANING until your home sparkles. One of my favorite cleaning products are those "magic erasers" for easil...

If you have been using a spare bedroom as a dumping ground for odd pieces of furniture and boxes of junk, it's time to clean up your act. Each room should ha...

The dining room is often a blind spot in decorating the home. Between dinners, a large dining table can look bare and uninviting, so styling it up with visi...

If the colors on your walls don't look fresh anymore, it is time to repaint. Over time, the paint on your walls will fade and there may be uneven sunspots on...

Have you noticed oftentimes that retailers like Ralph Lauren, Anthropologie all have plants or flowers in their retail stores? That's because greenery and ho...

When buyers look at homes, guess what they always do? They peek in cabinets and CLOSETS. This is why jamming everything you’ve decluttered from the home int...

Let there be light! Updating lighting fixtures makes a major difference in nearly any space, and this is particularly true for homes that are not newly built...

Give your shelves some style. Remove 25 percent of your books entirely, and then rearrange what’s left so that some books are vertical and some are stacked h...

Buy rugs that actually fit your rooms and your furniture. For a living room rug, avoid one that’s too small; make sure at least the front legs of your sofa o...

To stage your bathroom, go with monochromatic hues. Put all-white towels in your bathrooms. Colored towels don’t feel spa-like and they can seem dingy and ad...

Using Reflective Surfaces is one of my favorite tricks for making a room look larger. A well placed mirror brings the eye further into the room immediately w...