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Staging Your Long Beach Homes

Are you considering selling your Long Beach Home?  Have you considered the value a professional home stager will bring to the table? You should.  With so many homes for sale on the market in Long Beach it has never been more important for your home to show well.  This is the third in a series of articles on staging your Long Beach Homes by Diane Concialdi of  DC Redesign.  This portion of the series addresses bringing your home to life with color. Here you will find great tips for you to consider prior to placing your homes for sale on the market; we hope you are enjoying the series.

Define Your Long Beach Homes with Color!

Each year we are presented with a new palette of color choices for apparel, home furniture design, décor, appliances, automobiles and more.  Home decor changes for 2008 are a warm range of colors with a rustic feel combined with modern, natural products such as bamboo and anything clean and green.
 
If you're uncertain as to what colors to choose for your room palette, here's a tip:  pull colors out of your favorite tapestry, pillows, curtains or piece of artwork. Designing a room this way works every time. Don't forget black; it completes the look and pulls it all together.
 

Colors in softer grays, putty, stone and granite colors or browns, greens and sunset colors like oranges and yellows create an earth-like landscape for your home.  Use soft pewter-blues with tan hues to create the feel of the beach or colors in greens. Tone-on-tones for whites, beiges or lighter browns and neutrals combined with a wall in a dark richer color add dimension to your rooms.
 

Start with darker colors for floors, move upward for the lighter colors on the walls and don't forget the ceilings. Using the same color for your entire room including the ceiling also works!  Paint has different sheens so be sure to use the right one.  Flat paint camouflages imperfect walls; eggshell and satin give a more formal look and high gloss should be used for woodwork and doors.
 

Use the same color schemes for adjoining rooms to flow from room to room. Colors such as coffee bean, tangerine or kiwi work well for kitchens and stimulate your appetite; just remember - the color of foods!  Blues for dining rooms suppress the appetite and make dinners less enjoyable. Bedrooms require warm deeper shades to create a calm and peaceful atmosphere for a good nights sleep.

• We look better when surrounded by color and feel happier.  
• Buyers choose homes that make them feel happy. 
• Color your home, stage it and price it right. 

Would you like to get an idea what that color you have been thinking about will look like up on the wall?  Try the tool over on valspar painter, its fun, easy to use and will really give you a feel for the colors you are considering.

Stage your Long Beach Homes to sell.

Diane Concialdi
DC Redesign  
(714) 815-3506

Read the rest of the series: 

• Redesign Home Staging for your Long Beach Homes
• Staging Your Long Beach Homes

 

Staging and Home Improvement related articles:

• Remodeling Your Long Beach Home?
• Curb Appeal On A Budget
• Summer in Long Beach California - Reduce Your Energy Costs and Stay Cool
• Self-Healing Homes
• Why Stage Your Long Beach Home or Condo?
• Long Beach Backyards-Ponds and Nasty Swimming Pools
• Long Beach Home Kitchen Remodels
• Long Beach Home Bathroom Remodels

 

Read also:

• Chasing the Market Down - Are You Guilty?
• Long Beach Homes-Issues for 1st Time Home Buyers
• Selling YOUR Long Beach Home - It' Tough Out There - Are YOU ready for this real estate market?
• Selling YOUR Downtown Long Beach Condos-State of the Market
• Stage YOUR Long Beach Home to Sell