Home-staging is the first step to do when you start selling your house or apartment. The goal is to make your home looking neutral and attract as many potential home-buyers as possible. 

The keywords are uncluttering and packing. The space should look clean and fresh, and not too personal. That doesn't mean that cold and empty rooms. There should absolutely be pieces of furniture to create cosy atmosphere and show what can be fitted there.

In this apartment I changed the functions of some of the rooms, packed a lot of items to store, brought some pieces of furniture, paintings and pictures, textiles and decorative items.

One absolutely gorgeous way to create some cosiness are fresh flowers and herbs.

It's good to keep in mind that you are not selling your home but a space which a potential buyer will see as their own home.

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(FI) Asunnon stailaus myyntikuntoon on ensimmäinen askel kun aletaan myymään asuntoa. Tarkoituksena on tehdä kohteesta mahdollisimman myyvä, neutraali, jotta se houkuttelee mahdollisimman monia potentiaalisia ostajia.

Avainsanat ovat järjestäminen ja pakkaaminen. Tilan tulee olla järjestyksessä, siisti ja raikas eikä liian persoonallinen. Tarkoituksena ei ole tehdä huoneista kylmiä ja tyhjiä. Huonekaluilla luodaan tunnelmaa ja näytetään mitä tilaan mahtuu.

Tässä stailaamassani asunnossa vaihdoin joidenkin huoneiden funktiota, pakkasin kasoittain tavaroita varastoon, toin huonekaluja, maalauksia ja tauluja sekä tekstiilejä ja muita koristeita (minimaalisesti!).

Leikkokukkien ja tuoreiden yrttien merkitystä ei voi väheksyä. Ovat ehdottomasti piste i:n päällä.

On hyvä pitää mielessä, että kyseessä ei oel oman kodin myynti vaan asunnon, josta voi tulla potentiaalisen ostajan koti.

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Below you can see a glipmse how the apartment looked before home-staging // Alla näet kollaasin miltä asunnossa näytti ennen stailausta myyntikuntoon.

Möbel Kunst - A Vintage Heaven

Wow, look at this place! Möbelkunst is a real vintage heaven! A 1.000m2 of design classics under one roof.

A few days ago needed a chair and some other props for a photo shooting and popped in to Möbelkunst in 10th district, Budapest. If I was a millionaire, I would buy all my furniture here. I just love those vintage and industrial pieces. This is not a cheap place to shop but you can also rent pieces with 20% of the sales price. Of course, renting is not an option if you want to have a piece to yourself.

There are a lot of film studios and international film-making in Budapest. Möbelkunst is one of those places where they can rent authentic vintage pieces.    

Vautsi, katsokaa nyt tätä paikkaa! Möbelkunst on todellakin vintage-taivas! 1.000m2 design-klassikoita saman katon alla.

Jokunen päivä sitten olin etsimässä sopivaa tuolia ja muuta kuvausrekvisiittaa ja piipahdin Möbelkunstissa Budapestin 10. kaupunginosassa. Jos olisin miljonääri, ostaisin kaikki kalusteet täältä. Siis niin ihanaa vintage- ja industriaalikamaa. Ei mikään halpa paikka ostoksille, mutta täältä voi myös vuokrata sisustuskamaa maksamalla 20%:a ostohinnasta.  Vuokraaminen ei tietenkään ole vaihtoehto silloin kun haluaa tuotteen itselleen, mutta rekvisiitan hankinnassa mainio mahdollisuus.

Budapestissa on paljon elokuvastudioita ja täällä myös tehdään paljon kansainvälisiä leffoja. Möbelkunst on yksi niistä paikoista joista studiot käyvät vuokraamassa autenttista rekvisiittaa.

Are you fascinated by vintage and industrial style?

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Kiehtooko vintage-tyyli sinua?

Flowers & Numbers

I have this funny/weird birth time 06.06. at 6am. Lots of 6s.

Anyway, my birthday was on Monday and I decided to make the number six in flowers. These were the different varieties, all made of organic, natural flowers which I found outside. Which one is your favourite?

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#5

Gluten free lemon cake is one of my favourite!

Do you have a lucky number?

Small Bedroom

This small bedroom had an iron-wrought bed and shiny orange walls, which were actually handpainted with a special (and expensive) technique. It was not possible to re-paint the walls nor to put there any wallpaper. Instead used simple, thin basic white panels by Halltex to hide the plastic looking and overwhelming (restless) effect of the walls. 

The owner had already bought a dark Ikea Malm bed and 2 high chest of drawers beside the bed. There's storage place under the bed, which is a great idea for a small bedroom. To keep the bedroom fresh and airy added white curtains and white linen duvet cover. The owner has a loads of photos, posters and souvenirs, which he wanted to put on display, and anyway those are the pieces that makes a place home.

The colours of the posters give nice warm look and feeling. 

Here are some tips to keep in mind when furnishing a small bedroom:

• Light colours enhance the feeling of space,while darker hues tend to close in. Lighten up tour walls and furnishings.
• ditch the king size (or evven queen) bed and use space-saving furniture. If storage space is an issue, under-bed storage containers can free up a lot of space.
• Visually expand the room by using mirrors.

You can find more great inspirations fro a small bedroom at Freshome!

PS. This was the starting point:

Still kept the warm tone - at least slightly!

Something Black For April?

Spring and April is so full of gorgeous shades of pastels - why not add some black pieces to sharpen up the whole interior at home? Made two moodboards by picking up black pieces of furniture and other decorative objects. The first one I did at Polyvore and the one below at PickMonkey by using HM Home items.

Friday Flowers

Friday flowers!

I know it's already October and should have chosen more autumn-ish flowers for home, but the delicate tones of these flowers were so alluring...

Have a fantastic weekend!

More Easter Eggs

 It doesn't always have to be yellow for Easter.

 Paper eggs in ivory and hues of grey.

 Our Easter Bunny: Smorking Labbit.

 Got carried away and hung them everywhere...

The folded paper eggs are hand-made in Hungary.

A piece of velcro keeps them in shape.

Bought them at Karcsi Papirbolt,

for their webshop click here.

Thanks, Kata, for the great service at Karcsi!