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This luxury listing has all the bells and whistles. The view is spectacular, the amenities are endless, but what stands out the most are those beautiful cathedral ceilings.

Here are 5 tips and tricks to make every luxury listing feel like home — large area rugs throughout to anchor the space, trays with beautiful florals, greenery everywhere, all white towels in every bath for a spa-like feel, and a conversation area set around a focal point.

1. Downplay the Drama of Square Footage

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Even in a seller's market, every home must be staged. Since most buyers start their home buying process online, those MLS photos are extremely important. Leaving your home vacant or unstaged can make it feel cold and empty, like there's no personality…meaning, a home buyer will scroll right by it. Every home deserves to feel warm, inviting, and welcoming

2. Carefully Stage the Common Spaces

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Luxury begets luxury. We always suggest to our clients that every room in the home should be staged, including the outdoors. If the home seller doesn't want to spend the money staging their entire home, we will meet in the middle and suggest the most important rooms to be staged to make the most impact on the MLS listing. With carefully placed home decor and furnishings, every room will capture and influence the emotions of every potential home buyer.

3. Make the Main Suite Spectacular

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One room we pay special attention to is the main suite in the home. The master suite is the oasis where every person wants to retreat and rejuvenate at the end of the day. Because of this, we want to convey a lifestyle that every buyer aspires to, like coming home from a hard day at the office and retreating to your spa-like bathroom to relax, read a book, or enjoy a glass of wine.

4. Scale Furnishings to Room Size

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In a luxury home, we pay particular attention to selecting the right size and scale of furniture so the space feels comfortable and well-used. We want to make sure when designing for these luxury homes that the furnishings are not too small because we want to avoid a feeling of awkwardness at all costs. On the flip side of that, if the furniture is too large, it will interfere with the flow of the room, which won't make any sense to the potential home buyers

5. Choose High-End Home Furnishings

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What sets us apart from other stagers in the area is that we carefully select the style and quality of the furnishings we use in all of our luxury listings. It's imperative that the quality matches the style of the home, otherwise it just looks poorly done and actually decreases the listing's perceived value.

Staging a luxury listing, as well as non-luxury listings, plays a significant role in the home buying process and we never want to interrupt that. Our end goal is to always to appeal to the high-end buyer when staging a high-end luxurious home.

Ultimately, a large, luxury home won't sell itself, even in a seller's market. However, with proper home staging and the tips shared above, our team will make it feel warm, cozy, and inviting to every potential buyer who walks in — resulting in a quicker sale and potentially selling for even more that the listing price.

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Warmly,
Theresa