(2012-04)

Staging isn’t really meant to make your house warm and inviting.  Rather, it’s a process of dumbing down your living space and making it as bland and generic as possible, so that potential buyers, most of whom lack imagination, can imagine themselves living there.

That’s why real estate agents say, “de-clutter, de-clutter, de-clutter!”  Any little distraction can queer the buying process.

My agent is great, and I’m doing my best to follow her advice and get rid of any distractions.  But I love my house, and have too many things I like to look at, which I guess makes me the real queer.

-R