Denver Design – Mile High Staging for Function and Sale
Jan 4th, 2010 by admin
Capture a Rocky Mountain High Décor with 3 Step Color and Style
Lifestyle in Denver trumps design on most days, but in the end, great color, style and function win in every home staging project. Can you imagine settling into the home of your dream only to realize there’s no functional sense to your home?
“We wanted to stage our home for sale, but we knew the design had to be functional, because we had to live there at least for a few weeks,” explained Dianne Carter, new staging client for a Denver metro real estate office. “Staging for function meant our dream would be a living showcase.”
What Dianne Carter understood that many home stagers misunderstand is the value of making the staged home functional. Sharing 5 steps of color and style that will allow a home owner to live in the staged design means functional living becomes part of the design.
1 – Wrap up Lifestyle and Color with Functional Design
White fills up much of the seasonal color changes, either white hot summer skies or white ice and snow of winter, the color white makes Denver memorably, but most home owners want to capture a different part of the Denver weather scheme. A favorite among home owners included autumn colors with crisp winter whites, but not everyone loves Aspen leaves.
Consider stepping into a home in cool mountain colors, dressed in soft blue grays, warm watery greens and sparked with sappy russets and gold. Would color bring the mountain lifestyle home? Capture the sky blue of a spring sky, lush forest green of the pines and the magnificent purple of a columbine in a fantasy style modern designed home. No matter how rugged and chiseled the lifestyle, if the colors capture a memory and bring the home owner back to their favorite moment, style fits.
2 – Wide Open Spaces Collide with Décor Style
Leave plenty of wall space to allow for stashing supplies and equipment when sportsters come in from a long weekend. Arrange furniture away from the wall with a few corners and hiding spaces for weekend staples. Plenty of seating allows for company on Bronco weekends. Add extra tables for food and fun when entertaining guests. Use trunks and box tables to store equipment and hide away any supplies for the long term.
Fold away dining tables that leave hardwood dancing surfaces let the party come indoors when the clouds roll in.
3 – Include Lifestyle in Decorating Style
A bike may be wall décor, or a ski-board the only picture in the dining room. Creating décor around the basic lifestyle lived in the area may mean optional decorator items. Useful decorator items that don’t include sporting equipment may include paintings or photography taken by the home owner, sculpture created in the mountains, or nature art collected on hikes and other adventures. Wildlife aficionados may opt to bring home trophy antlers and heads, or a bear skin rug. These lifestyle art types have a whole different outlook on decorating a home.
Capture the Lifestyle to Decorate a Home
Before a new home owner can grasp the concept of decorating their home, they must first find the lifestyle they want to live. Decorating around a mountain lifestyle means adding in part of the mountains, more than color, include the style and design of mountain living. Bringing in the sports and interests a person shares, along with applying lessons learned and inviting friends to join the family means incorporating a lot of action into decorating style.
