Staging a rarely used room sounds easy, right?  Not so when it comes to dining rooms.  This room presents beauty, but is plagued with excess baggage.  Like too many chairs around the table and extra ones in the corners, lots of storage in the china cabinet, extra furniture, too many plants, toys, etc. 

When selling a home there should be only four chairs at the dining table.  Move all extras to the basement.  If the china cabinet is a catch-all for collections, art the kids made, stacks of dishes and one glass after another, you need to pack all these items and then “merchandise” your shelves with only a few large items.  Usually items that are solid as opposed to glass.  Glass pitchers and goblets in front of a mirrored backgroud, sitting on a glass shelf, and displayed behind the glass door lose interest.  You can display a dinner plate in the groove provided for this purpose in each “quandrant” of the cabinet and accent with goblets or tea cups and saucers in front.

Removing all extra furniture (tea carts, small chests, etc.), toys and storage, minimizing wall hangings, removing any tablecloth, placing a nice bowl of fruit or vase of flowers and setting the table for entertaining will entice buyers to imagine a calm, romantic dinner.  Your staged dining room with be briming with beauty - without the excess baggage.

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