We Gave a Home Stager $100 — Here’s What He Bought on Bed Bath & Beyond
When it comes to preparing a house for sale, home staging plays an important role in the overall rebranding effort. From ditching a dog’s hair-covered pet bed to saying goodbye to the framed photos from your grandma’s birthday party, a stager’s role is to create a fresh space where potential buyers can imagine themselves living. Certainly, that means clearing out plenty of personal items. However, an empty home is also unlikely to allow potential buyers to envision their life there, and that’s why stagers bring in new items that create a warm, welcoming environment with a delightful slice of style.
In the spirit of freshening up a space for the winter we have ahead of us, I recruited Boston-based stylist and stager Sean William Donovan of Sean William Styling to go shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond (fka Overstock). I asked him to fill his virtual cart with $100 worth of items he’d pick to transform a space to maximize a seller’s return on the investment and spark a bidding war in no time. He may have gone $5.50 over budget, but we won’t hold that against him. Here are the picks he went with.
