nbr: another decorate-y ? leave room empty?

Re: nbr: another decorate-y ? leave room empty?

• skoorbnibor member

  November 2009

  hannah&ben:

   

  The only thing I can see reasonably turning it into is a sitting room type deal... maybe with a big comfy over sized chair and a coffee table or ottoman and maybe a little bookcase? The walls are pretty sloped since it's a cape so we can't really hang anything on them (the one straight wall has a nice window that takes up a good amount of space).
  

  Ideas?  I really appreciate the help with this stuff!

  ETA: or should we make it another office? i don't know!!
  

  I would do this, or even do a small desk instead of the bookcase....

  our house was staged when we bought it... I dont know that it made a difference to us, but it did give us ideas.... of what we would do and what we wouldnt!!! 
  

  
  
  

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• lckytabby3

  November 2009

  I would stage the room as something but I dont think I would go and by furniture for it unless you know you are going to use that stuff in your new house.  Do you have things you can pull from other rooms to make it seem like it is a used room.

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• kammy

  November 2009

  I would definitely stage the room, but it only takes a bit of furniture (don't overfill any room).  If it's attached to the master, I think either an office or a sitting room is fine.  You can pull extra furniture from other rooms in the house (so that they are not overfilled).    For an office, all you need is a table/desk, chair, and maybe bookcase.  Can DH maybe not take all the furniture to his new office right away?  Or just a chair, end table, and bookcase or some other small piece makes it a sitting room.

  We bought and sold last year (ugh!  horrible timing!).  I would like to think that when I look at houses I am not distracted by the furnishings, but all you have to do is watch one hour of HGTV to see how people looking at houses for sale really focus on things that are not being sold with the house!  (open houses where people are commenting about the furniture or artwork instead of the actual room)
  

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• chocolatechip06 member

  November 2009

  I would stage the room. Decorators always say that buyers do not have an imagination so you need to tell them the purpose of the room. Good luck!

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• emmyloustu

  November 2009

  lckytabby3:

  I would stage the room as something but I dont think I would go and by furniture for it unless you know you are going to use that stuff in your new house.  Do you have things you can pull from other rooms to make it seem like it is a used room.

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• GuitaristsGirl

  November 2009

  I would definitely try to give the room a clear purpose, whether it be office or sitting room, or maybe even dressing room or nursery (depending on the rest of your house, of course).

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• TxJen1972

  November 2009

  I'd definitely stage the room.  Just a simple sitting room or whatever you can do the easiest and not have to spend any money on.

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• skoorbnibor member

  November 2009

  hannah&ben:

  So I'm doing all this crap to get our house ready to sell... our house is nice.. and clean... it's just not really decorated... we never loved it here so we never really did anything like that.. just moved in furniture, painted the kids rooms and were done with it..

  Anyway.. so we live in a cape cod.  The entire second floor is the master and it's 2 rooms joined by a short hallway... you walk up the steps and enter into what is currently my DH's home office (which is actually a nice space, it has lovely modern dark wood furniture).. then you hang a left, walk through the little hall (which has a longish sideboard/dresser thing along one wall) then you enter into our bedroom.

  What is happening now is DH just got an office space outside the house... so the pretty office is now gonna be an empty room...

  So, my question is, should we leave it empty?  Or does that freak buyers out? Like "what is this random empty room"?  The only thing I can see reasonably turning it into is a sitting room type deal... maybe with a big comfy over sized chair and a coffee table or ottoman and maybe a little bookcase? The walls are pretty sloped since it's a cape so we can't really hang anything on them (the one straight wall has a nice window that takes up a good amount of space).
  

  Ideas?  I really appreciate the help with this stuff!

  ETA: or should we make it another office? i don't know!!
  

  
  
  

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