staging

thank you so much for the welcome back comments.

for those of you who don't know, there is no adoption news to report. We are waiting and watching and hoping and praying.

in light of the decision to move in the direction of listing our house on the market sooner rather than later, we had a stager come to our home yesterday to give us some tips.

what is a stager? well, according to the movie leap year (which I haven't seen but heard about when I told a friend that a stager was coming to my house),
it is a con-artist.
a person who gives ideas about how to make your home sell faster by giving potential buyers the impression that your home is spacious, clean, and well organized. what paint colors to use, what accessories to add, what furniture to delete.

sounds great, right?

she walked around each room, making comments along the way, balancing nice things and well, reality. she walked in every closet. she took pictures.

there are so many things you don't see until somebody else sees them.

did I tell you she took pictures? of my closet?

The nerve.

Seeing our closet in pictures is much worse than seeing it in person each morning and evening.

Ouch.

Let's just say we have our work cut out for us. We have "the list", a detailed, room by room analysis and job descriptions. So needless to say, Joel is currently painting, and I took it upon myself to go from store to store buying "prettiness" for our "space".

I'll keep you posted.

but I probably won't share the pictures.