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I think some times homeowners and realtors do not want to use home stagers because their homes / listings will never look like the ones in the glossy home staging brochures. Not every home is a $1.7 town home with and elevator and spa like bathroom. In fact most of my business comes from your average home in the burbs that requires some tweaking. A lot of the time we are working with an extremely limited budget and the goal is not perfection - it is cozy, or quaint, or realistically just a lot better than it was before.  Given an unlimited budget any home can be transformed, I like to see what can be accomplished for little or no money.  I don't often post pictures of this kind of work because they are not shocking, or spa like or dramatic. They are reality. The following before and aft...
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By Maureen Maureen
Rockland Home Staging recently staged a colonial in Rockland County NY where the kitchen was just not working. It was very neutral but it looked washed out.  The cabinets are that bleached wood that is almost pink and the walls were painted a pail peach.  It really wasn't such a bad color but it did nothing for the room.I decided to break one of the most sacred home staging rules and paint the kitchen RED.We chose a really warm rusty red.  We only painted two of the walls, near the cabinets red.  We painted the others a really nice putty color then accented that wall with some artwork that had the red in it.  We also tidied the place up and installed new stainless steal cabinet hardware.  The old hardware was brass with a white center.  It really gave this tired kitchen a fresh new look...
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