How to Use Design Psychology to Stage Your Home for a Top-Dollar Sale
A new business venture to help home sellers, home staging, assists property owners in preparing their home for the best possible sale. Home stagers visit your home and either tell you how to redesign it or actually do the work for you. These services do great work, but they don’t always understand interior design. They know what sells houses, but many home stagers could benefit from a little interior design and marketing psychology training to assure the homeowner of a top-dollar sale.
How does design psychology help stage your home for a top-dollar sale? Design psychology helps you with emotions: yours and your prospective buyers. You must learn to love your house at the same time you learn to let go of your home. When you remember why you bought your home in the first place and clean it up with love, your care radiates throughout. Your buyers pick up on the undercurrents in your home; they want to buy happiness and a new lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »
Home Design & Decor – Plan the Layout of Furniture in a New Home Using Design Software
Using HGTV’s home design software – or software from other companies that offer similar options – you can plan your new house (or your remodeling) right down to the layout of your furniture. That’s a great way to move forward on the new house you want or the remodeling of the house you already live in. You can also use it to plan how you want to decorate and change the house you have now, simply by rearranging the furniture, adding to it with new purchases, or taking some of it away.
Some people pay hundreds of dollars to have someone else tell them what kind of furniture and accessories to buy and where they should place those pieces for maximum effect. The problem with that is the designer is the one with the opinion that gets used, and the person who lives in the home often doesn’t have much say in where things are put. It seems much more logical that the person who lives there should be the one to choose where things are placed in the home, according to his or her own taste. Read the rest of this entry »
Build a Really Cool Home Theater on a Budget
One of the very interesting things about learning to build very high-end home theaters, is that you learn also learn by default how to build some very good budget theaters. Like everything else in life, audio and video equipment begins to have a rapidly declining return on investment or gain on investment after a particular price point. Just like going from a Toyota to a Lexus where you get a nicer car and spend a whole lot more money, in wall speakers are the same way.
In fact this is true of all aspects of building a home theater or media room. I am going to let you in on a few secrets that you can use to spend less and get a whole lot more out of your home entertainment experience. The first thing to understand is that room is 50% of the problem. If you have a large open family room that can’t reinforce sound, money spent on speakers really isn’t money well spent. Better speakers sound better in better rooms. Read the rest of this entry »