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The following photos of bathroom, cloakroom, and en-suite master bathroom are all part of an empty London property that I interior styled for a client who is selling his house.
Home staging a large London house for around £20,000 that may go on the market for around £2-£3 million, can often increase the selling price by much as £100,000, as it offers prospective buyers a view of an aspirational lifestyle within the property.

The ground floor cloakroom, although the smallest room in a house, is a very important room

I added an interesting stylish mirror, and a small grey circular table on which to place hand towels and lovely smelling White Company hand lotions and soaps.

Its often the smallest details that attract interest

The view of the master en-suite bathroom into the bedroom.
His and hers luxurious chunky oversized white towelling dressing gowns add interest to the doorway into the bedroom.

The master bathroom has generously sized floor towels, piles of strategically placed and carefully folded bath towels and hand towels, fake plants and White Company soaps and lotions. These styling touches together with candles, grouped on the side of the bath suggest that the prospective buyers will have a lovely room to relax in at the end of the day.

The family bathroom has the same neutral colour scheme as the rest of the house, as this bathroom is also shared by the 2 guest bedrooms.

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I styled and home staged this empty room into a colourful and fun kids bedroom in my clients’ London house.
One of the important criteria was to show that the bedroom space could fit 2 single beds, as often prospective property buyers aren’t able to imagine an empty space and how the furniture might fit into it,

 This is an alternative view of the bedroom

This is the bedroom after styling


The red and yellow colours of the bedroom were inspired by the vintage Mickey and Minnie prints I found on Portobello Road. The pretty flower print and gingham bedsheets were from White Company. I added small touches like kids toys and books scattered on the shelving and a wooden bike and added a vintage car outside the bedroom on the landing.

 

Next to the kid bedroom was a small room which could have been transformed into a nursery with a cot or a kids study. I chose to make it into the kids study.


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This is the 2nd smaller guest bedroom in the recent London property I homestaged. The room space lent itself to a small 4’6″ double bed to keep the bedroom still feeling spacious.

This is the view of the room before styling.

I removed the short curtains as I felt they added nothing to the room.
I chose neutral taupe shades for the bedroom accessories, softened by blue accessories, blue flowers and touches of blue in the artwork which created a softer, less masculine feel to the room.

here is a closer view of some of the styling details on the bedside tables and bed.





 

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My American client’s empty Fulham house had 5 bedrooms to homestage, style, creating a lifestyle to help sell the house at its optimum price as quickly as possible. The master bedroom was on the top floor (see earlier blog posting) with 4 bedrooms of varying sized on the 1st floor.

I turned this bedroom into the main guest bedroom as it was large enough to comfortably fit a king size bed.

I called this my world traveller guest bedroom due to the Globetrotter vintage trunk and artwork.


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This is how the master bedroom of my clients Fulham house, looked when it was empty before I styled it to sell. Home-staging the property to create an aspirational lifestyle, can increase selling price and decrease selling time.
The bedroom is very large space, big enough to fit a Superking bed and additional furniture as many buyers prefer 6ft beds in the master bedroom.

The above photo is of the bed area with a doorway on the right to the ensuite bathroom.
The photo below is of the reverse view from the bed end of the bedroom.

The next photos are the final staged views photographed in a very sunny bedroom (it must have been the only sunny day this Winter)!
I chose a light grey divan bed with a high headboard to create a statement and 2 slightly “distressed” side tables that teamed in with the Farrah and Ball-Charleston Grey paint tones on the walls. The White Company bed linen had a grey border, and I layered extra large pillows, cushions and throws to give depth, texture and interest to the bed.
Bedside lamps were tall to balance proportions, and as the room was swallowing up furniture, I added an ottoman at the foot of the bed. I chose to go more modern and minimal in my selection of both the bed and the ottoman as I felt the bedroom lent itself to that feeling, more than a button-back.

I leant the large free-standing mirror at an angle into the corner of the room and balanced the opposite corner of the room with a comfy tub-style chair and soft cable-knit cushion on it.
The room is calm and tranquil, somewhere not just to sleep, but also relax and look out through the huge glass windows at the night time sky and roof-top views.

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This the view of the clients empty Kitchen before staging. I felt that the kitchen had no heart with no island, workbench or table and had become simply a walkway to the far room which will be the dining room.
So this is what I did…..

I added a long narrow vintage zinc-topped table found in Portobello Road, to create a work space between the stainless steel kitchen cabinets worktop and the fridge. I felt a central island table would have taken over and would have made the kitchen space feel smaller.
I sourced an industrial style metal and wood stool to compliment the table
Styling details I added are vintage wooden crates with fake ferns to create extra interest in a “dead” corner.
Other styling details you can see from this angle are a wall clock, a metal bowl with some fake pears to add a flash of colour, herb pots on the window sill, an inscribed cheese board on top of the ovens. The picture below is a different view of the empty kitchen before staging.

Styling details: A retro kitchen scales picking up the duck egg blue that can be seen the dining room, a Dualit kettle, cook books, a wall clock with the same blue shade and herbs in metal containers.
In this final photos you can see a glimpse of the hall and the vintage industrial style wood workbench

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#homestaging #interiors #styling #property how I got the look for client’s drawing room study area

The far end of a double drawing room can often be under-used and can be simply utilised as a walk-through area. I wanted to make sure that prospective buyers could see that it was a valid usable living space so created a study and reading area.
Vintage desk and desk sourced from inexpensive antique/bric a brac shops in Notting Hill and Fulham, London,
Anglepoise lamp from Auction sale rooms
Leather chair from Barker and Stonehouse
Artwork original 50’s prints from Surface View

The photos below are views of the room before styling.

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The object of home-staging an empty property to sell, is to maximise its selling price with a completed sale in the shortest possible time.
Creating an aspirational lifestyle and illusion of interior space and ceiling heights, whilst hiding any noticeable build or design flaws that may affect the buyers price offer is also important

This drawing room is long and narrow, with irregular wall alcoves.
the owners made the fireplace and TV the main feature so the room needs to be styled to address this.
the furniture I chose couldn’t be too large so that the room still appeared spacious.
A neutral colour scheme has colour from the artwork and flowers, picking up the lilacs and yellows from the coloured coffee table panels

This calm and restful drawing room feels homely and stylish, neutral but not bland, with some individuality.

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With the success of having styled Celebrities for the Red Carpet,
Styling “real” people in their day to day life, helping them to both look and feel good from inside out,
and writing the book “Discover the New you- Celebrity stylist secrets to transform your life”
I am now focusing on Interior styling and Home staging properties in the UK

With over 25 years in the styling business, I have picked up loads of clever tricks and tips to create stylish interiors whatever your budget- low or high. Mixing the inexpensive with the expensive, and finding unique pieces that work together with personal items or antiques, or creating an aspirational lifestyle in an empty home.

The property below is a client’s empty property which I home staged to create a show home for sale, that felt lived in and unique, appealing to the prospective target demographic audience in SW London.

These photos are the living room, before and after

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