Oh, the loverly moment when a pretty new dress is folded into tissue and slides into a glossy shopping bag. It’s a little present you’ll get to open when you get home. And even though you know what’s inside, the bag represents a déjà vu of the instant you decided that dress was just what you wanted, just what you needed.
Shopping bags are full of promises. Elicit that moment of anticipation for potential buyers by using pretty bags to stage your home.
- Center attention in an empty closet by positioning a row of three plain, colored medium sized bags with tissue blooming from their open tops, on a shelf.
- Draw attention in a partially full closet to the amenities you want to highlight by cleaning out that section and placing a single colorful bag (again, with the tissue sprouting from it) on that shelf or hanging from a hook.
- Make a vignette in the mudroom or back porch by hanging a a plain canvas bag from a coathook. Have a couple of intriguing accessories – a scarf? A pair of sunglasses? Trailing from the open bag…just as though you’d tossed the bag there as you arrived home from a fun trip.
- Vases packed away? Cut off the top of a 2-liter pop bottle and arrange in it a grocery-store bouquet. Drop the impromptu vase into a brown paper bag that’s just a little taller than the bottle. Scrunch the bag around the bottle so the top edge of the bag flares out. Wrap some twine or a ribbon remnant around the bag about two inches below the top edge. Voila! A rustic paper-bag vase that’s environmentally friendly to boot!
- Need to tidy your kitchen or bathroom cabinets of prescription bottles, spices and not-so-pretty evidence of everyday life? Collect sturdy small bags – the kind you get when you buy cosmetics – and use them to corral the small bottles and flotsam. You can quickly sweep all the bits in to the bag and put them in a cabinet or the medicine cabinet in advance of a showing.
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great staging ideas in the ForSaleByOwner.com Education section.
Image courtesy of Morguefile contributor si grafix.
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