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Insider Tips on Staging a Living Room

By Julea Joseph, guest contributor

Make sure you show off the living room in your listings. Here are some simple lessons in staging your living room to give a great impression.

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Choose an on trend color palette that will appeal to buyers and showcase your home's amenities. Tone on tone creates flow and space.

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A simple, opened room arrangement explains the room's purpose, and also sells square footage.

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Add lifestyle defining accessories to create a story of how one could use the room. Create layers to give the space warmth and character.

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Make sure to update, uncomplicate and unify interior decorating selections, such as window treatments and hardware.

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Abbreviated doesn't have to be boring.

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These simple lessons in home staging should inspire a vision of the art of home staging.  There is always the smart choice of hiring a home staging professional who can provide you with expert vision, those desired on trend ideas, and proper packaging of a home.

This post originally appeared at Tales of an Interior Stylist. Reprinted with permissions. Copyright 2017. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Julea Joseph is the owner and lead designer at Reinventing Space in Chicago. Visit her website and blog at Julea.com.

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