World building = Home staging

48 hours and all reused. I like staging because it feels more like my own art to me. It’s like world building in a story. There’s more freedom than interior designing for a client. Staging is like creating a temporary installation. Of course I don’t get exactly what I want because I’m working with select few pieces and they want something general and neutral for open houses. The furniture was not inventoried properly which I knew would affect us in the long run. But I’m learning still, right? Shouts to my neighbor Kat who literally let me pick through her things. Like how kind is that?! And come to find out she used to do staging. There’s so much more I wish could do—bigger rug in the dining area, my built in bench, real fireplaces, more flowers, a children’s room, curtains, a jute rug under the small nook by the stair. That powder room is not mine at all—yet. A more robust master bed, I don’t like the mixed brass in the kitchen. But all in all I think for a first try it was pretty good. I will ask Kat to mentor me.