Posts Tagged ‘entertaining’
How to Host Overnight Guests While Your Home is on the Market
Having your home on the market can be a stressful time because you have to keep it in tip-top shape and be ready at any moment to have a buyer take a tour of it. It’s exactly not the most ideal time to host an overnight guest. However, sometimes circumstances don’t give you another option.…
Read MoreHow to Make Guests Feel Comfortable When You Don’t Have a Guest Room
If you love to entertain family and friends but don’t have the space for a designated guest room, you may feel self-conscious about the prospect of inviting anyone to stay. The truth is, though, that you don’t have to have a private guest room to make your guests feel comfortable and taken care of in…
Read More6 Home Staging Tips to Make Your Home Ready for Guests at Any Time
If you love to entertain, you know the value of having a guest-ready home. It’s a wonderful feeling to be proud of your personal space and want to show it off to your friends and family. However, if you’ve been wanting to entertain but feel like your home isn’t up to par, it can be…
Read More7 Easy and Affordable Last-Minute Halloween Party Ideas
Halloween is right around the corner and suddenly, you have a party to plan. Whether time got away from you or you just decided you want to throw one, you now have a list of things to do to get everything ready before the guests arrive. Of course, you want things to look as festive…
Read More7 Elements for Creating a Beautiful Thanksgiving Centerpiece
The most important piece of décor on your Thanksgiving table is the centerpiece. After all, the main event at Thanksgiving is the feast with family and friends and the centerpiece is at the literal center of it all. There are a lot of fun and creative ways to make a Thanksgiving centerpiece your own. Nature…
Read MoreHow to Make Your Next Event the Best Ever
Are you planning an event at your home soon ─ such as a party, wedding or reception ─ and aren’t sure where to begin? As professional home stagers, we hear questions like this often. We have also had the pleasure of staging a variety of special events over the years. Today, we’re going to shed some light…
Read MoreHome Staging Webinar: Conversational Seating
In this week’s episode of Megan’s Home Staging Webinar, she is talking about one of the most important parts of designing a beautiful and functional living room: furniture arrangement. The wrong arrangement will instantly make a living room feel uncomfortable and unwelcoming. It doesn’t matter how beautiful the décor may be, if the seating arrangement…
Read MoreHome Staging Webinar: Tablescapes & Place Settings
This week in Megan’s Home Staging Webinar, she is focusing on one of the most special areas of the home: the dining room. It’s where we gather with our family and friends, especially over the holidays and special occasions, and the table is the center of all the action. When staging a home, we always…
Read MoreOutdoor Entertaining: Summertime Tips to Make Your Next Event Unforgettable
Whether it is a birthday party, a neighborhood get-together, or perhaps even an open house if your home is on the market, outdoor entertaining is essential during the summertime. If even the very idea of hosting such an event stresses you out, relax—it doesn’t have to be a daunting task. In fact, I recently came…
Read MoreSeven Tips for a Great Home Wedding
Are you considering hosting a wedding at your home? (Or considering holding YOUR wedding in someone else’s home?) An at-home wedding can be a fantastic choice, as it often costs substantially less than renting a facility, and it gives the wedding planners a great deal of flexibility with regards to décor, layout, and scheduling. However,…
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