How To Set A Dining Room Table For Staging

Habitation stagers, realtors, and even home owners argue over this point all the time. And so today I am sharing my ii cents on whether or not dining tables should exist set when staging a habitation.

By and large, when you're staging your habitation to put on the market, I recommend that you avoid setting the table, instead keeping the focus on the space, not your stuff. That is, after all, the entire concept behind staging to sell. You aren't selling your stuff, yous're selling the house! Then why add withal another distraction?

Potential buyers walk through a dwelling house in almost fifteen-20 minutes on average. Past setting the table, you are at present taking abroad from their feel of the infinite past directing them to the tabletop instead of the cute outdoor view, shiny hardwood floors, or gorgeous chandelier.

While a smartly dressed table can be amazing to look at, call back what you're selling…THE HOUSE! So dress your tabular array for a commemoration or holiday, not for a showing. Go along that colourful bouquet on the tabular array to draw the buyer's eye into the room, but don't over-indulge. Yous want to ensure that potential buyers remember the infinite itself, not your grandma'south china!

There are exceptions, though…

In my x years in the industry, I've only set a table twice in hundreds of habitation staging projects!

In both cases information technology was because information technology was a very high-end habitation with a large dining room. I wanted to showcase how elegant and comfortable a sit down-down dinner with many guests could be. After all, this would be an impossibility in almost homes.

We used the client'due south fine mainland china and glassware for domicile staging.

I felt information technology was especially important to set the dining room tabular array in these homes because their layouts made them platonic for entertaining. Plus, the target market for such high-priced, conservative homes in these "old money" neighbourhoods was senior executives and their families. They would well-nigh probable want to do some serious business and personal entertaining.

But over again, in smaller dining rooms, I'm non a fan of setting the table for home staging. I think information technology's distracting to come across plates and glassware when the table top visually takes up most of the room.

In my opinion, setting a breakfast island looks also gimmicky. It's clear what a breakfast isle tin be used for so I don't retrieve it'south necessary to set up a contrived meal scenario. Of course, if the counter height is really ugly, you lot can break information technology up a chip with placements, cereal bowls, etc.

As a general dominion, when staging typical family homes, my preference is a nice centrepiece on a dining tabular array rather than going with identify settings. I generally apply a bowl of fruit on a kitchen counter and a simple flower arrangement on the kitchen tabular array.

Overall, yous could say I'm not a fan of setting the table for home staging. There will undoubtedly be different opinions on this and I'd dearest to hear thoughts. Delight share your experience or point of view in the comments below!