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Art for Staging a Home

Art for staging a home is frequently different from art that's collected for personal reasons.

When someone collects art, it's because there's something about the piece that speaks to them. It may remind them of a place they've visited. They may love the ocean, or the mountains, or cowboys. In time, their art collection expands and creates a unique and personal imprint of their life and interests.

Staging art has a different purpose. It's used to fill empty walls with the right color, subject matter, and style to make a buyer want to buy a home.

If you're collecting art for you own enjoyment and not planning on selling your home anytime soon, art and mirrors can give you suggestions on how to hang your art for maximum impact.

If you're purchasing new art to stage a vacant home for sale, the following tips will help you select the right pictures to entice the buyer to want to buy your home.

Top Ten Tips - Choosing Art for Staging a Home

Color matters. For greatest visual impact stay with one predominant color
Similar frames will give your art more punch
Stick with a consistent theme in the pictures
Think of the art and the furniture it's closest to as a unit
Hang pictures so they're visually within four to six inches of nearby furniture (more on this in art and mirrors )
Select the size of the art to fit the wall, or cluster several to fill a very large wall
Mix up the sizes small, medium, large
Add something fun and unexpected
Don't overdo it. Leave some empty space
The purpose of your staging art is to lead the buyers eye around the home and make them want to buy it!

Art for an Urban Contemporary Home

This newly remodeled home in the heart of an exciting urban re-development in Denver, Colorado boasts high contrast and highly desirable finishes like dark wood cabinets, slab marble counter-tops and stainless steel appliances.

The perfect staging art to complement this type of home includes black and white urban photography:

Simple botanicals:

And abstracts:

Does the Style of the Art Matter?

Yes it does. Whenever possible, allow the art to complement the style and setting of the home. When there is no specific style, stagers and decorators usually choose abstract florals or abstract landscape art. See some examples below.

Art for a Colorado Cabin

Selecting art for a Colorado mountain cabin to reflect the rugged landscape and the history.

Abstract Landscape Art for Staging a Home

If your home has no distinctive style, abstract landscape art is usually a good choice.

Art for Staging a Bathroom

Abstract florals look great in a bathroom.

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