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| Features | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Staging for the Right Audience | |
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| What Is Staging? | |
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| Out with the "You": Disengaging from Your Home | |
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| Saying Good-Bye to Your Home | |
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| Five Ways to Say Good-Bye | |
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| In with the New: Figuring Out Your Target Market | |
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| Looking at the Overall Statistics | |
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| Asking the Pros: Interviewing Realtors | |
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| Understanding the Generations | |
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| Baby Boomers | |
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| What Boomers Want | |
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| Generation Jones | |
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| What Jonesers Want | |
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| Generation X | |
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| What Gen Xers Want | |
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| Generation Y | |
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| What Gen Yers Want | |
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| Media Influence on the Generations | |
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| Deciding on Your Target Generation | |
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| Determining Your Market by the Time You've Spent in Your Home | |
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| The Next Step: Creating a Great First Impression | |
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| First Impressions | |
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| The First Look: Attracting Internet Shoppers | |
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| The Drive-By: Making the Most of a Buyer's Second Look | |
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| Staging the Exterior | |
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| The Approach: Driveways and Walks | |
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| The Front Yard | |
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| Creating a Staged Garden | |
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| The Fa�ade: Looking Good | |
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| The Front Door | |
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| Other Outside Entry Ideas | |
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| The Inside Entry: Creating a Sense of Welcome | |
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| Begin with Your Hall Closet | |
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| Provide Seating if Possible | |
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| Unclutter the Space | |
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| Make Use of Mirrors | |
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| Work with Color | |
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| Impressing Your Target Buyer | |
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| If Time and Money Are Short | |
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| The Next Step: Creating Space | |
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| Creating Space | |
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| Taking the "You" Out of Your Home | |
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| Prepacking | |
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| Why Not Show Your Home Empty? | |
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| If Uncluttering Seems Utterly Overwhelming | |
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| When Couples Differ in Uncluttering Ability | |
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| Help Children Unclutter | |
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| A Silver Lining to the Staging Process | |
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| Keep Your Eyes on the Prize | |
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| Everything You Need to Know About Boxes | |
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| What Boxes to Use | |
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| Supplies for Packing | |
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| Out with the Personal and Possibly Contentious | |
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| Removing Objects with Possibly Contentious Affiliations | |
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| Removing All Photographs and Portraits | |
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| Deciding What Furniture and Rugs to Remove | |
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| Removing Freestanding Bookcases and Entertainment Centers | |
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| Removing Rugs That Are Too Stained or Too Small for the Space | |
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| Removing Selected Furniture and Rugs | |
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| Clearing the Decks and the Depths: Advanced Uncluttering | |
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| Uncluttering All Lateral Surfaces | |
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| Tackling Closets and Drawers | |
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| Clearing Hallways | |
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| Uncluttering Mudrooms and Vestibules | |
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| Uncluttering the Kitchen | |
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| Uncluttering Bathrooms | |
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| Your Home Office | |
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| Uncluttering the Dining Room and Living Room | |
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| Uncluttering Bookcases | |
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| Uncluttering Bedrooms | |
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| Uncluttering Guest Rooms, Sewing Rooms, and Multipurpose Rooms | |
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| Uncluttering the Laundry Area | |
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| Managing Pets and Their Paraphernalia | |
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| Uncluttering Porches and Patios | |
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| Uncluttering Basements, Garages, and Outbuildings | |
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| Revisiting Your Clutter Hot Spots | |
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| Double-Checking Your Uncluttering Through a Camera Lens | |
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| Recognizing What You Have Accomplished | |
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| If Time and Money Are Short | |
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| The Next Step: Fixing and Cleaning | |
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| What To Fix and How To Clean | |
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| How Do You Know What to Fix? | |
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| Do a Walk-Through with an Observant Outsider | |
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| Get a Preinspection | |
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| Why You Can't Just Ignore What's Broken | |
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| Commonly Needed Repairs | |
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| Yards and Gardens | |
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| Gutters and Downspouts | |
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| Roofs | |
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| Air-Conditioning Condensers and Trash Cans | |
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| Driveways and Walkways | |
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| Decks, Terraces, and Fences | |
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| Windows from the Outside | |
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| terior Wall and Trim Paint | |
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| Interior Walls and Ceilings | |
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| Overhead Lighting and Ceiling Fans | |
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| Windows from the Inside | |
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| Staircases | |
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| Wall-to-Wall Carpeting | |
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| Flooring | |
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| Doors and Doorways | |
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| Kitchens | |
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| Bathrooms | |
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| Clean Is What Sells | |
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| Yards and Gardens | |
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| Roofs and Exterior Walls | |
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| Windows | |
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| Interior Walls and Ceilings | |
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| Overhead Lighting and Ceiling Fans | |
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| Floors and Carpets | |
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| Kitchens | |
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| Bathrooms | |
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| Laundry Rooms | |
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| Fireplaces, Radiators, and Other Heat-Related Objects | |
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| Basements, Attics, Garages, and Outbuildings | |
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| If Time and Money Are Short | |
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| The Next Step: Setting the Stage | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| Deciding Each Room's Purpose | |
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| Targeting Room Usage to Your Most Likely Buyers | |
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| Creating Vignettes That Charm Your Buyers | |
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| Avoiding Multipurpose Rooms When Possible | |
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| Thinking About Flow | |
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| Finding Each Room's Architectural Focus | |
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| Using Color | |
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| Complementary Colors | |
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| Warm versus Cool Colors | |
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| Moods Associated with Particular Colors | |
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| Color as a Generational Cue | |
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| Generational Preferences for Color and Design Aesthetics | |
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| Identifying and Remedying Each Room's Hierarchy of Colors | |
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| Creating Balance | |
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| Avoiding Heavily Imbalanced Room Usage | |
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| Balancing the Style Throughout Your Home | |
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| Balancing the Furniture Within Each Room | |
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| Choosing Artwork to Suit Your Buyers | |
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| Using Mirrors to Enhance Spaces | |
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| Balancing the Light and Dark in Each Room | |
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| Staging the Key Rooms in Your Home | |
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| Styling the Kitchen and Dining Room to Sell | |
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| Styling the Living Room to Sell | |
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| Styling Bedrooms to Sell | |
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| Styling Children's Rooms to Sell | |
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| Styling Guest Rooms to Sell | |
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| Styling the Home Office to Sell | |
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| Styling Bathrooms to Sell | |
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| Going Back over Your Home as a Whole | |
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| If Time and Money Are Short | |
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| The Next Step: Presenting Your Home to Buyers | |
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| Presenting Your Home To Buyers | |
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| Using the Power of the Camera's Eye | |
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| Taking Another Walk-Through with a Camera | |
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| Staying Involved if Someone Else Takes Your Photos | |
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| If You Have Just Two Weeks to Do It All | |
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| Keeping Your Home Presentable While You're Showing It | |
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| Index | |