Interior Design and Home Decorating Mastery: The Ultimate Guide from zero to Hero

1. Introduction: If you are a homeowner, a landlord, or real estate agent, interior designer, just someone interested in the creation of learning the artistic sense of transforming a space into a home or exuding a certain ambiance that you'd like to project your visitors or your potential buyers. This course is a mastery level course in which you will be equipped with interior design skills, decoration skills, strategies, techniques, best practices to transform a space from one point to another, being scaled to a masterpiece, an artwork that is going to be appreciated by the potential buyers of that home or your potential guests and visitors, or even the inhabitants of the space, whether you have children and you would like to decorate the space for, or you would like to transform your living room to have a more oriented family experience. Or you just simply would like to present the best features of your current space for a potential or prospective buyer. This course has it all. So in order to get the best out of the course, we need to understand our objectives. What are the things we're going to be learning? What are the main milestones? Now we should be getting from this current course because at the end of the day you do not want to take a course that has no real-life value to you. Now, all of our courses throughout our academy feel free to browse our academy for more information. We do provide high-quality courses which will equip you with skills that you can apply to your day-to-day life. And this is one of them. Now, the key main objective that we're going to be getting out of this course. First of all, we're going to develop the understanding of the concept of home staging. Well, this Home Staging mean, why is it such an important part of real estate? Especially for interior designers, especially for a home decorators. Why do they focus on Home Staging as an important key fundamental approach to developing a certain space. And what I mean by space, any port within the real estate, living room, a washroom, irrespectively, if it's going to be occupied by individual, it's considered to be a space and requires to be decorated and hope stage. Then we're going to be learned. Going to learn about the home staging techniques and best practices. This is going to be very thorough, in-depth, practical information, interior design and decorative skills that you're going to be equipped with, compiled for you in a very comprehensive, at the same time, very specific manner where you are going to get the best of the best in terms of the juice of the juice of the information on the quality of information that you need to help you get equipped with the necessary knowledge that works in real life. Not just simply random pieces of information, the haves and the have no value. On the contrary, what you're going to be learning with these things, you can apply them to any occasion, whether you are staying home for a sale, simply decorating your house or your apartment, or you're providing an insight for a colleague or a friend and how to better decorate their spaces through which a certain ankle. Then we're going to learn how to utilize guidelines and interior design approaches to home staging. You can think about this as a blend between science and art in theory, design, and home staging. It's quite fun to deal with because you are going to see real life transformation. And if you are presented with two different spaces at the same time, just simply looking at them. You can tell a lot of difference. A lot of, you can get lots of information about the background of such a space. What kind of ambiance is a gloomy? Is it chill? Is it relaxing? Most probably you walked into a space and the first thing that you've done as well, look around because that space was mesmerizing and provided you with a sense of comfort. Now, all of these things apart coincidence, they are actually take it into account such that whenever you walk into that space, you should be experiencing the same ambience over and over again. And that's part of the head, the science behind the home staging and the interior design approach. While you learn skills, certain arrangements, color blends, patterns, accessories, usage of certain pieces of equipment and arrangements in order to reach a certain angle. And the angle is a certain ambiance and atmosphere. And this is where we're going to be teaching you in this current course. And finally, you're going to learn how to stage a home bias off for a sale, resale, and decorative purposes. Now, as I've mentioned, irrespective of your goals, you are going to be learning some unique, powerful skills, regardless walk of life you're at. If you are a homeowner planning on selling a home and this is your home staging business, e.g. or your interior designer working for a client. Or you're simply someone staying at home and you're planning on redecorating your space. This course will provide you with all of these skills that you can just simply apply to whatever domain that you are at. Now, let's transition to our course and get the ball rolling. 2. Your Project !: Your project for the course revolves around applying these strategies that we're going to be learning to an application within your life. Whether it's a living room that you're planning on transforming or if it's a project that you're working on for a client or if it's a property that you're planning on selling and you need to home stage or add some decoration and be responsible for the interior design approach for that specific area. Now in front of you, you do have various samples. You can use them as reference. You can draw inspiration from. It, can take a look at all of these images. These are the before images and the afterimages for the same spaces. Following the application of the key important concepts that you're going to be learning with the course. 3. What is Home Staging ?: Welcome back to the section of the course where we are going to kick things off by defining what is home staging. Now, homesteading has a certain purpose, but falls under interior design. It falls under decoration. It just folds under, making a space look nice. But when we refer to the term homesteading where being very specific because we have a certain end goal where Home Staging is the process of preparing a property such as a home or an apartment for sale in the real estate market, this is the key definition for home staging. You're going to have a real estate, a piece of real estate. And you're going to modify its appearance in order to make it appeal to potential buyers with the whole purpose of selling that space. Now keep in mind the skills that you're going to be learning in this current course. They are quiet, transferable. You can easily use them as part of your interior design project or for your own personal preferences. If you have a certain apartment, you need to decorate your living room. You need to adjust, refurbish your washroom. You need to add things to your space to make it look nice, make it look better. Or you just simply having guests over and you need to brush things up and add some extra vibe to your living atmosphere. Those skills, still, they do apply, but the term Home Staging is quite specific to the real estate market in which you are going to stage a house in order to sell it. Now, the whole objective of homesteading is actually to showcase the best features of that space in which you are going to organize the furniture. You're going to go ahead and deal with the lighting at some quality curtains, carpets, accessories, arrangement, Space Layout, all of these things one piece at a time. They contribute to the successful efforts of presenting the best features of that specific space with the whole purpose of trying to sell it. Now, I would advise that as we go through the lectures, just simply pause, go through the scripts which are written for you to help you guide the guide your efforts. As you develop your understanding and your knowledge-base. Keep a note pad on the side. Try to take some notes as you transition from one lecture to another with the whole intent that by the end of this current course, you wouldn't have quite a small booklet of key important bullet points. It can just simply referred to undergo whether you are a real estate agent, your interior designer, just simply a homeowner, trying to decorate things up a bit. These key points are going to be quite essential for your own knowledge base. Now, the whole home staging approach varies across a spectrum. We have the lower end and the operand. Now, the lower end of home staging is quite simple, where you try to organize furniture and tried to arrange things up a bit or clean up the space, the clutter the space. That's a form of Home Staging. On the other end of the extreme, you are taking into account of every single detail. The furniture, the lighting, the outdoor space, the garden, the backyard, the front yard, whatever it is that is related to that piece of the state. You are going to be taking into account, trying to modify it in order to extract the best potential feature from it. Again, with the hopes of making a sale, which is selling that space, selling that real estate to the potential buyer. So the ultimate goal is for home staging is to help sell the property faster at a higher price by making it more visually appealing and desirable to buyers. Now, you wouldn't be, you will be surprised that if you do have two houses, they're exactly the same. Let's go for at two bedrooms house, they are exactly the same. The layout is disabled literally everything the same. Just simply copy it and paste it. You would be surprised that one of them would be sold for $1 million more compared to the other one. Simply for the sake for the sole purpose or for the sake of properly being home staged. Because whenever the potential client walks into a house, a the first thing that they notice, it's not organized, it's not clean, the lighting is off. It provides them with a negative vibe and they do not see themselves living in that space. On the other hand, house be as soon as the potential client steps onto the yard, they see a green clearly cut long with some accessories or let's say fountain outside. The transition indoors, they see properly arrange furniture, some greenery, spot on lighting, clear clean windows, proper leverage, curtains, accessories here, and their wall art, which complements the furniture. And it provides them with that sense of comfort. And they see themselves living in that space. And that's the thing that you need to achieve. Your potential client should see themselves living in that space. Once you get to that point, congratulations, you managed to sell that space. So this is the whole purpose of homesteading at this current point. Let's recap the definition. Home staging is the process of preparing a property such as a home or an apartment for sale in the real estate market. Let's go through the details of the script which is written to help you complement the idea and complete the picture for you for the definition of home staging. The whole objective of home staging is to showcase the properties best features and create an attractive, welcoming, a memorable first impression for the potential buyers. This is the whole purpose. First impression is what counts the most specially when you're selling a property. This is achieved by arranging the furniture, decor, accessories in a way that highlights the properties, strengths creates a sense of space and light and helps potential buyers and envision themselves living in that space. This is your goal when it comes to home staging. Whenever someone steps into the property, the first impression that they should have, I wish I could live here or such a delightful space. I'm going to buy it. Why? Because it complements their vision. They see themselves being part of that space. So Home Staging, like I've mentioned, it's an extreme app. It has a lower-end than an operand. It can involve everything from decluttering and depersonalizing a space to update fixtures, appliances. And it can be done on a range of budgets and styles to appear to a broad audience of potential buyers. This is going, we're going to get into those specific details. How can you modify certain things in order to appeal to certain buyers? Are you selling an apartment or a house to high-end buyers? Are just middle-class families were trying to just mobilize from a big house to a smaller house. So all of these things are taken into account in order to help you make choices. Which ends of the spectrum are you going to be falling on? Are you going to do the minimal homesteading efforts or we're going to go above and beyond in terms of your home staging efforts. And finally, to wrap things up for the current lecture, the ultimate goal of home staging is to help make a sale. You are going to be selling that space. This is your main purpose. Now keeping in mind that the skills that you're going to learn that could be applied once again to your own projects as an interior designer, or just simply a homeowner trying to modify your living space for the better. But the whole intent of home staging is actually modifying a space or real estate in order to make it appealing for a potential buyer with the hopes of making a sale. Now, this wraps it up for the current lecture. Feel free to replay the lecture to highlight key important points and take some notes along the side. And let's transition to the next lecture. 4. Improtance of Home Staging: Welcome back. Now to kick things off, take a look at this current image. What is your first impression? Take a look at this project. How does it look like? What is the vibe that you're picking off? Well, if the first impression that you're having, it looks quite clean, organized, properly spaced out. The furniture is picked in a ridiculously great way. The accessories such as the plants, look at the telescope, look at the tissue box, the vase at the middle, which complements the sofas, the windows. How clean are they? And they showcase the scenery. So all of these things The helped create that first impression. Now, this is a sample work for Home Staging efforts. And why is it such an important thing? First of all, it properly stated homes, the insured faster sets. When you are actually home staging, you're increasing the chances of making a sale successfully. Look on the other hand, if everything is quiet, this organized, luckily, curtains are down, you can't see the potential scenery, the chances of success, they go down the plummet because you're not making a good first impression. Higher selling price, like I've mentioned in the previous lecture, you could have exactly the same space, but let's swap this furniture with low quality furniture. Block the scenery. Turn off a couple of lights here and there. Obviously, what's your, what's going to happen? It will be presented as low-quality space, hence, the price will be lower. But on this current case, everything has been fine-tuned and cranked up to the maximum possible Home Staging limits. This will ensure higher selling price. It increases the buyer's interest for sure. The moment you just laid eyes on this current picture, what was your first impression? It will provide you with a sense of relief, a sense of comfort, and this is what you're trying to achieve with your potential buyers. As soon as they transition into the space, they should feel that sense that you're trying to provide to them, which is comfort. Hopefully they can see themselves big part of the space for the long run. Finally, home staging provides you with a competitive advantage. The real estate market is quite competitive. You get many real estate agents, many options, apartments, houses, villas, buildings. The list is endless. So in order for you to stand out, every single effort that you add, in order for you to stand out will help increase your chances of success. And one of them is Home Staging because it's a form of art. It's a skill. It's a knowledge that not many professions they do have. And it's a sense of taste That's very difficult to teach sometimes, no matter how much information you provide about interior designer in the visual should have that artistic AMD or that sense of art in order to combine colors or arrange pieces in a way which are quite preventable. So the thing you are going to be learning in this course will definitely help you step up your game and get to that level where you are home staging based on science, home staging based on skills and strategies that actually do work. Now, rather than just simply trying to guess what is the best fit in terms off your home staging efforts. So this lecture emphasizes the importance home staging. It's not something which should be taking quite lightly when you're trying to make a sale or trying to arrange an apartment or a house in order to present it properly. Again, think about the example of having guests coming over. You get really important guests. They are coming over. And then you have two options. Either you're going to leave your living space completely unorganized, and then you're going to be welcoming those guests. And obviously you're not going to make a good impression. On the other hand, you're going to do your best. You're going to decorate. You're going to clean things, organized the space in order to make it presented in the best way possible, which is going to be more accommodating to your desk guests. This is the basic real-life example that every single human on this planet tends to apply. With that consideration. It's taken by default. That's something that we tend to do whenever you have guests over. But those skills, they could be grown, there could be developed, there could be enhanced in order to help you transfer them to various practices such as Home Staging, interior design declaration. So this concludes it for the current lecture in order to help you understand the importance and significance of home staging. Now we are ready to transition to the next lecture. 5. Home Staging Misconceptions: Welcome back. Now, in this current section we are going to take a look at some common misconceptions when it comes to home staging. Now, the greatest misconception is it's too expensive in order to properly Homestake. Well, it's not. If you are able to identify key elements as part of home staging, you are able to utilize minimal budget. I completely changed the appearance of any space that you're dealt with. You need to have the proper knowledge, the things that you shouldn't be modifying and tweaking in order to completely transform that space with minimal budget. You don't need an expensive or unjust, a great budget in order to help you transform a space or real estate through Home Staging. On the contrary, UQ able to work with any budget that you're dealt with. Like I've mentioned, the home staging of the spectrum. You have minimal efforts, extreme efforts. Now, the basic thing that can do just simply organize the clutter and clean, which is tentatively free. On the other hand, you can just simply buy accessories and tried to get the best quality carpets, pillows, et cetera, which is on the expense of n. So again, it works with any budget. You don't have to worry about being quite too expensive. On the contrary, tried to allocate a certain budget no matter what it is, and you can just simply work with it. It's only for luxury homes. And this is quite a big misconception that home state and just simply applies for luxury real estate, where you are planning on selling a premium and a piece of real estate such as a castle or multistory level villa or wherever. This, again, this is a misconception because think about it this way. Every single individual on this planet at one point in their life are going to have guests. And obviously, whenever you are going to be having guests, what do you do the reflexes to try to arrange your space so it doesn't apply to a luxury homes. But what do we do? We notice as luxury homes, they tend to, it's taken more seriously. In terms of home staging, what do you have a luxury apartment or the home staging efforts are pushed to the limit. Finest accessories, finest loading, finest fixtures and finishing in order to help them ensure make that sale and even a lower quality of space, which is not on the high end or the luxury end, could fall in the same domain of Home Staging. Putting the effort to make that space look better and provide a better impression for your potential buyer. Because at every segment of the real estate market, you do have potential virus. It's unnecessary. This is a great misconception where what's assumed there's no need for home staging or it wouldn't make a difference in terms of increasing the chances of success, whether or not you're going to be making a sale. Well, this is wrong because I think about it this way. Whenever you as a person, we walk into a store and you would like to buy a product, obviously, you're going to find a product that meets your expectations that's properly packaged and that provides you with a sense of comfort that this is the right choice. You could have a great product in front of you, but it's not packaged properly. The package is broken, the seal is off, it looks outdated and all that stuff will provide you with a negative impression even though it could be the best product for you. So it's quite essential for the success rate of your sales efforts to properly home stage the real estate that you have. It's a hassle. Well, this depends how complicated you want to make it. When it comes to home staging, things could be as simple as cleaning, organizing the cluttering, or you could be quite too picky with every single measurement that you make it too complicated. Well, let me break it to you. Homesteading shouldn't be that complicated. It's an art. It should be fun to do. It should be quite exciting to do. It should enquire, require some sort of a playfulness interests in making that space better. Take a look at this current image, e.g. now, from a first glance, it looks quite expensive or it's a luxury space. But if you look closely, you would realize that there's nothing much to it other than this fireplace over here. And the rest is just basic furniture which has been arranged properly. The space has been cleaned out. Take a look at the sofas. Take a look at the pullover rug over here. Take a look at the centerpiece. Take a look at the scenery or the view. Take a look at the lighting and the shelves and the accessories. Now, all of these wouldn't cost much to transform a space. However, they have been combined properly in a systematic way. That whenever you, you've taken a look at this current space, you would realize, or you would develop that impression that's very luxurious, or it's very expensive to achieve the same end goal. But once again, take a look at the picture. What kind of furniture do you have which is not present than any other space across the world? Let's say you've got sofas, it got carpet, so you got centerpieces and get a Windows, which is the minimal, minimal furniture, which would then any space regardless of luxury and spaces or not. So luxurious spaces, these are the basic essentials within any residential space. But it has been taken care of quite properly, cleaned, painted, properly organised, arranged, assembled in a way we're colors blend and they complement each other. The views are not obstructed. The lighting adds up to the space has been calculated properly. So all of these things, even though the smaller, trivial, but together, they transform the space entirely. And this is what we're trying to achieve in this current course. You are going to learn all of these things which will help you take in a raw space which has no sort of liked or that spice to it and completely transform it to something extra ordinary. At this current point, we have developed our understanding of the misconceptions that revolve around home staging and how essential it is for our interior design and the creative efforts with the intent of selling a property. 6. Principles of Home Staging: Back to the section of the course and now we are going to dive into the details of Home Staging, interior design and decoration. Now we're going to tackle the principles of home staging. What are the key essential concepts? I've laid them down for you in a very systematic way such that you'll be able to remember them, note them down, and just simply refer, refer back to them for the ease of convenience, whether you are working on your project, you have something hands-on and you need some interior design skills and recap of that knowledge that you have learned in this course. This will pave the way for years. Now, kicking things off with the principles of home staging. The principles of Home Staging are based on creating a space that is welcoming, visually appealing, and allows potential biased and vision themselves living in the home. All of the skills that we're going to be learning from this point onwards. All of them revolve around the principles of home staging. What are we trying to achieve when we are considering a space and we need to Homestake that space. What is the end goal? This is the end goal. And every single skill, every single parameter, every single concept that we're going to be learning from this point onwards is going to lead us back to this main end goal. Now, as we transition through the various segments of the course, you will notice various illustrations of projects. Now, these have been added to the course for your own development to help you develop that sense of taste for the coherence of the space, how it should look like. Because this is a form of real-life application. This is a form of art in practice. You're not just simply going to learn stuff technically without having a visual aid to help you visualize how things work in real life. So these projects are considered to be guiding points. They will help you develop the understanding. You can use them as a reference as well if you are working in this space, e.g. this is an example of a living room. You can use the color palettes and the arrangements to help guide your choices. This is a master bedroom. Take a look at the arrangement, the ambiance, the color, textures, the schemes, all of them, how they are integrated with each other. You can refer to these as well. They are not just simply for demonstrative purposes, but also for guiding purposes. In order to recap this current essential point, the principle of Home Staging revolves around, first of all, creating a space which is welcoming. This is very important. Whenever someone steps into the space, they should feel that sense of comfort. It should be visually appealing. Everything should make visual sense. It's organized, clean colors, click together. Everything has been picked properly and just simply exudes perfection. And it allows the potential buyers to envision themselves. This is the most important point. Whenever a potential buyer step sent, they have a first impression and that first impression will guide them through their decision-making process. Do they see themselves living in that space? They're going to be presenting you with an offer. If not, they're going to be turning around and walking out of the door. So this is where it trunk to do. First impression, visually appealing. It should stand out, it should be organized properly and hopefully at the bar will make a choice which is in your favor. Now, let's transition to the key important principles. 7. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #1: So key important home staging, principle number one, which is literally for free, it costs you nothing to do, but it makes all the difference, which is cleaning up and decluttering. Now, the term refers to removing excess material from the space such that you are clearing out the space. The layout is clear. There are no obstacles within the way physically and visually. The potential buyer or your guest, or you are, or your client, if you are interior designer working on your project, they should be able to spot on this paces features as soon as they step in. They shouldn't be feeling a visual blockage or obstacles due to the stuff which are scattered all over the place. Take a look at this current image, which will help you understand the power of decluttering. At the same time, it's significance as part of home staging. Now, on the left-hand side, we do have the before image for a space. And on the right-hand side we have the afterimage of the space and nothing has been done. Other judges simply cleaning up the space, declaring the space, and adding some lighting on the left side. Whenever you walk in, what do you notice? You do have toys over here. You do have some clutter, apparently some personal items for the tenant than the lighting is a bit off and skewed. It doesn't compliment the space. It looks a bit them and dark. And everything seems quite piled up together. You've got a desk drawer over here. You've got a couple of chairs and small table over here. And you've got something over here. It doesn't make sense. And you do have the TV unit and everything seems quite to compact. So when, whenever you step in, the first signal that your brain receives two, occupied, too cluttered, requires cleaning, too crowded, and it's not comfortable. However, if we simply organize the space and we declutter that space, take a look what happens. It's exactly the same space. However, the furniture has been arranged, everything has been cleaned up. No more stuff over here. No more stuff over here. The stuff over here has been removed. It's the same sofa cleaned up. Two lamps have been added. Right? Now. A small floor vase with greenery has been added as well to complement the space. And the lighting has been shifted in order to support the space with extra lighting as well, to make it more brighter compared to the appearance that you can see over here. So just simply organizing the space, providing sufficient lighting, and arranging the furniture in a way that makes sense with proper distancing and proper layout. Here's a pro tip. Our brains, they can see Cemetery. If things are quite to organize properly laid out with proper dimensions, our brains are able to spot the patterns on the spot when things are quiet too messy and our brains are not able to make proper, coherent, cohesive sense of it. It doesn't make sense visually. Our brains are not able to pinpoint different directions, linearly, straight lines, symmetrically as well. It creates a sense of discomfort because our brains are like trying to process too many things at the same time. But when you are arranging furniture in a systematic way, in a cohesive way, and it's just a wage properly, properly spaced, properly organized. It makes our brains relaxed. Why? Because the brain is not receiving too many distractions. It's not creating that sense of comfort. This comfort, it's creating a sense of comfort which is the, which is the main goal that you're trying to achieve. Wherever you have furniture being arranged, you need to make sure It's arranged in a symmetric way, in a linear way. When I say linear, it means properly distanced, properly spaced out, makes perfect sense. And the best example, take a look at the image. This is before and this is after. Here, there's no symmetry, there is no proper arrangement. Everything is scattered. There's no pattern going on. On the other side. You notice there's arrangement, but you're not able to pinpoint that. And this is your brain at work. You're able to find a pattern, but you're not able to spot the pattern. But you notice arrangement. And once you do so, it means your brain is dealing with this comfortably and this will generate a sense of comfort they trying to achieve. So the first key tip, key principle is declutter, which is for free. Hence, it's not too expensive to do, but can make a world of difference. Now, let's transition to principle number two. 8. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #2: Now the second key important principle for home staging is to depersonalize the space. So when you are home staging a certain a home, it's very important that within the process to remove personal items from with them the space including photos, including objects, including a certain stuff that you have lying around there, which are considered to be a personal. This is going to be quite intrusive to the experience of the potential buyer. Because when they are prospecting for a space for a home, you should be able to provide them with the impression that this is the home for them. And the, it's quite difficult to do so. If you have objects which are quite personal, lying around, let's say you got your kids, toys, some family photos. You've got all of these items which are not considered to be relevant to a certain point to that space within the home staging scheme because the main purposes you need to create a neutral environment. Let's go through the breakdown or the key important essentials for depersonalization along with an example to help you understand it better. So important principle of homestay Jenkins to depersonalize the space, which means to remove personal items such as family photos and creating a neutral, inviting environment that allows buyers to imagine themselves living in the space. Let me give you a very nice example. Let's say you do have a potential buyer walking into a house that they're looking to forward to buy. The first thing that they see is a family picture on the wall. Now, obviously, this is not going to leave a welcoming impression because they are able to see a family photo on the wall, which provides them with a sense that this is a home for someone else and they're not able to, it's not going to be a welcoming to them in terms off being part of that space. Even though this is not something that are going to be thinking about, active liver is going to be at the back of their mind as something that strikes them whenever they step into the space. The notice that there is a family photo e.g. on the wall with them, that space. Then they realize it's occupied by other individuals and the blocks, somehow their imagination from seeing themselves are experiencing that space. As a potential buyer, you need to make the space neutral. And what do I mean by space? It could be any real estate piece, whether it's a house or building a villa or an apartment. Irrespectively, whenever you do have a potential buyer, or let's say if your interior design as well, you have a client and is walking into a space, you should make sure that this space is like a canvas. It's completely blank. Waiting for the potential buyer to leave or mark their presence future wise, where they are going to buy the space, they are going to add their own photos, are going to add their own personal items to add their personal touch this space. So if they walk into a real estate and they realized hasn't been occupied by individuals, they are leaving their personal items. It's going to interrupt the buyer's experience whether or not the space suitable for them. Now, how can we resolve this problem? Let's say you are a landlord and you are planning on selling a space, e.g. you're planning on selling a space. What you can do is, I need to do have personal items laying around here and there. What you can do is you can just simply go for boxing options or compartments, which will help you remove those personal items and remove them from site temporarily. If you have an open house or within a certain visit, just to make sure that the experience is complete for the potential buyer. Take a look at the skirt example. Let both of them, they are within the same apartment, but one of them has been depersonalized and D cluttered and organized while the other one has not. On the left side. This is the before picture. You can see you can see all these potential items which are personal laying here and there you do have a creams, you do have products, you do have toothbrushes and all that sort of stuff are considered to be personal items that have potential buyer would appreciate as part of the space, and they are quite deemed irrelevant to the space. Now, on the other hand, if you take all of these items and just simply put them into compartments like storage boxes. Whenever a buyer passes them, someone who's interested in buying the apartment or the house for the space, they, they will deduce, or they will have a sense of organization that they could organize their stuff the same way without being blocked by the presence of numerous personal stuff which are quite irrelevant to their own viewing experience. On the contrary, whenever the opened this compartment, they can see the potential, the future prospective, that they could add their own stuff in such compartments which will help them and storage. Hence, the space is very suitable for storage and it could accommodate a lot of stuff. Why? Because now it matches their own experience without the interference of the personal items from the current owner of the space or the real estate that you are dealing with. So you have to understand whenever you are presenting real estate for sale, or you are presenting an apartment or house or respectively, you should make sure it's depersonalized. It includes artistic touches, visuals, and some pieces of art like wall art is we're going to see there just to fill up the walls. But these items should not be personal. You should avoid or remove family photos, e.g. a, personal items as shoes, all that stuff which are considered to be personal for the current tenants are residents. There should be temporarily moved away just for the sake of providing a complete viewer's experience for the potential buyer in order to allow them to see themselves in this current space in the future. 9. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #3: Now this is one of the most basic yet one of the most powerful home staging techniques. We just simply cleaning the specs. One of the main misconceptions that home city is quite expensive and just unaffordable. On the contrary, just simply cleaning spaces and trying to put the best effort in terms of cleaning literally everything within the space. It will show for sure and it will help create that impression, that positive impression, which is going to be very helpful for the potential buyer to make a decision because it would allow them to see the potential, the potential of the space. Especially if Open Day where you have potential buyers, they walk into the real estate and tried to examine the various rooms of various surfaces, various textures, walls, paint outdoors, indoors. Sometimes a small single act of one buyer passing by a dining table. And they just simply find a lot of dust on that table. That could be a negative experience which might be the terminal for the decision whether or not to buy property. So a few clean, every single surface, everything shouldn't be quite crystal-clear. It will showcase the great potential that is paste has, which is going to reinforce the decision-making process for the potential buyer. Take a look at this current example. This is the image before and after Ford the same space. But you notice the difference. There's a lot of difference. On the left side. It hasn't been cleaned up. You do have a lot of items, a lot of dirt, lot of junk here and they're cluttered as well. But after cleaning the space, arranging the items, you notice a difference. And this is the thing that you should be aiming for. First glance, first impression, should be quite positive. If you take a look at the previous picture, the before picture, the first impression is quite too crowded, cluttered. It just simply sends the signals to your brain that this is a space that I'm not comfortable with. On the other side. On the after picture, whenever you take a look at this, the first impression is this is quite to clean. It has a lot of items, but it's quite too clean. It's quite managed smart managed properly, which means this pace is very well cared for. Hence, if someone is looking forward to buying the space, obviously this is going to be a positive or a plus point to help them make that decision. Up to this current point, you've noticed all the stuff that we've talked about. They're quite free. Home staging, like I've mentioned. It has a spectrum, very affordable to quite expensive, and it's up to you to make up the decision what's best for you. But the bare minimum, as we've noticed through multiple examples so far, makes a lot of difference in transforming the space that you have. Now, let's transition to the following key principle. 10. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #4: Now we're transitioning to a more specialized approach to home staging and leading to the current principle, which is highlighting the key features. This is the main goal of Home Staging in essence, where you are trying to showcase the best feature for every single space that you have, or even multiple spaces within the real estate. Let's say you have a house, every single bedroom, or every single living room or every single washroom, could showcase a certain feature. If you're able to provide such a dynamic experience, lot of features within the same space. This is a very powerful leverage that you can use to help you sell the real estate that you have. So the principle that we have at this current point, which is highlighting the key features which could be either a special storage, a garage, a chimney, or a fireplace, a cozy area, e.g. I. Can look where it's like a cottage, like Treehouse, e.g. or you have a great view or a pool. So all of these things that are considered to be features, and you should be able to highlight those features as part of your home staging efforts where you focus on that feature, try to keep it in mind as a pro tip, like every single space shouldn't be focusing on a certain feature. Let's take a look at examples to help you understand it better. Now take a look at this current image, e.g. what stands out the most? Obviously, the fireplace. Take a look at the furniture has been assembled to the left and the right of the fireplace. You do have Wall Art above the fireplace and the pathway is clear around the fireplace. Every obviously, when, every time single person passes by from here, they are going to pass or experienced the fireplace. So if a potential buyer passes through this living room, obviously the first thing they are going to notice is you focal point, which is the fireplace. Notice even the color of the furniture. Even the walls is quite plain, which is white, and you do have a frame around the fireplace which is in gray color, which is a neutral color, as we're going to see once we get to the color palette segments, how you can blend colors to help you bring the best features within the space. So by the proper color selection, proper furniture arrangement, we are able to highlight the fireplace. Take a look at this current example. What do you notice? What is the best feature and the skirt space? Obviously, take a look at this. It has a view. It allows a lot of sunlight, which is a very powerful feature actually to have natural sunlight just within the space. Given a Roman times and olden times that considered to be a very architecturally powerful thing to do, to allow light to fuse with them various holds, even in castles. That's something which is quite very interesting and very positive to have within a real estate. Nothing beats natural light. So if you do have in this current case, this current space, obviously if you have a buyer walk in, the first thing you'll notice is that it's a great view. A lot of natural lighting from this window and everything around us compliments this lightning complements in this view. We don't even have curtains over here because imagine if you have a curtain and he's just simply block this view. Obviously, it will look quite stale. The room will look quite okay. Nothing fancy about it, but the single act of having a glass door allowing natural light to fill up the space, transforms the entire experience. So this is the main goal you would like to achieve with this current principle, which is to highlight the key features. Now, how do you do this? We're going to see this in the upcoming segments of the course where I will show you how you can blend furniture, how you can put in some different color arrangements and schemes in order to highlight the focal point. A pro tip that you should always keep in mind whenever you have a room or a space, try to have one focus or maximum two focal points. That's it. You don't want to have your buyer quite too distracted between various focal points, a chimney, a view, all that stuff can be quite overcrowded. Tried to have one to two things as positive features that you would like to highlight that will provide a positive impression to your buyer, rather than just simply bombarding them with a lot of features and they end up being confused. I think about it this way. Whenever you want to buy a new mobile phone and you speak to the sales rep, and they started telling me about all of these features that the phone has. Let's say 20 to 25 plus features back-to-back. Obviously, almost probably. You're going to forget all of them. Most probably you're not going to buy the phone because you have to consider everything that they have said just to make sure you're making the right choice. On the other hand, you do have a sales rep who highlights key important features which are important to you. One or two, which makes That's phone quite special and very well suitable for you. Obviously you're going to buy that foreign are going to think twice because, you know, you made the right choice in terms of by the phone, which meets your requirements. And it has the features that you're quite interested in without overcrowding your brain with information that you have to revise later on. So this is the same approach you would like to follow with real estate as well. Specifically, when you are home staging, you need to make sure that the space that you have is very well organized, clean, groomed. At the same time, it has a focus, a feature that you would like to bring forward. 11. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #5: And now to the one of the most important Home Staging principles that you should be quite familiar with and you should learn and try to play with as part of your home staging efforts. Because this makes all the difference in terms of interior design and decoration. This can make or break your home staging or interior design efforts, which is the use of colors, specifically neutral colors. What we are going to aim for as part of home staging, we need to focus on using a neutral colors. In order to visualize this, think about a person trying to pick a piece of clothing. They need to add accessories to it. Obviously, if the main, Let's say we have a suit, someone in a suit, and if that suit is completely yellow, all of a sudden, the options to complement the suit are quite limited. It's very difficult to find accessories such as shoes, a belt, a handkerchief, or watch, which go with the yellow suit. On the other hand, if you have black suit, gray, white, gray, beige, all of these shades of colors which are considered to be neutral colors. They tend to be complemented with relatively any piece of accessory badge with black, with blue, white with the yellow. All of these things they tend to complement each other as long as you have what we call as a base color, the foundational color, which is, which is the setting, that generic setting, which is going to be a neutral color. Let's take a look at the breakdown on definition of future color. Neutral colors are key in home staging as they create a calming, inviting environment that appeals to a broad range of potential buyers. Why is this such a powerful thing? Neutral colors will help psychologically. Buyers visualize their own personal touches to the space. Think about it as a canvas. Like a painter. If you give a painting, a ready-made painting and he asked them to add their own touches to it. It will be quite challenging. But if you just simply give them a blank canvas and tell them to go crazy with their own imagination. They can add touches of colors here and there to come up with their own personal interpretation of the artwork. The same thing applies within decoration interior design practices. You should select pieces of furniture which are quite neutral and color. The paint should be quite unusual and color in order for the accommodation of the personal preferences to take place. Whether you would like the buyer to imagine what, how their personal stuff could fit in within the space, or for the aesthetics and visual appearance of the space. It's always confirmed that when you have a neutral base of colors, as we're going to explore right now. Mentally, it's more or less taxing to your brain to try to pick up on all these cues. Because our brains and our eyes, oh, we tend to read a spectrum of colors, electromagnetic spectrum, red, yellow, green, indigo, blue, which are quite prominent and easily detected by our eyes. So a few bombard your eyes with all of these rays of colors at the same time, it's going to be taxing on the brain. So in order to alleviate that problem, overcrowding the brain with stimulus, you're going to be using a neutral colors. So what defines a neutral color? Literally, it's shades of white, all the way to black. And everything in-between. Take a look at this. Now, all of these colors, e.g. they tend to be similar, but they're not similar. E.g. you do have white and off-white. You do have beige, then you have a shade of light gray than the, you got the dark end of the gray. So all of these are considered to be in neutral colors, which are shades of each other, either darker or lighter. You do have on the other end, a bit of extreme shades of neutral colors, which are with a touch of a yellow, a touch of green, a touch of blue, a touch of red, but without the extra popping visual appearance, they can look at this e.g. in gray. Oh, it's a great color, but you can see it has a bit of turquoise to it. E.g. this shade of gray or this creamy color. It's creamy, white, leaning towards a bit off, beige and yellowish. But obviously you cannot classify it as yellow. This is what you're aiming for. If you cannot classify a color either as blue, green, yellow, indigo, purple. If you cannot classify it. And within those colors schemes. And it's somewhere towards gray, brown, beige, black within those shades than it's a neutral color. And this is something you can work with. So you have to understand the color schemes. They are very, very powerful. Whatever you're buying furniture, whenever you buying accessories, paints, artworks, curtains, carpets, this will either make or break your home staging efforts. So in front of you, these are examples of neutral colors. So you might be asking yourself, so how can I find a neutral color as well? Take a look at this color palette. You can use it as a reference to help guide your choices at the same time. Over here, you do have the various names that you can use. E.g. we've got Balboa missed, which looks like this creamy color. You've got the Canvas tan, which is a bit of a greenish gray. It's gray with a hint of green color, but you cannot classify it as green. You cannot classify it as olive. You cannot classify it as within the green spectrum. It's part of the shades of gray. And you do have the shades of white, the shades of black, shades of brown. This is the spectrum you are going to be using in terms of selecting the colors that you need to be working with. Consider this as the stepping stone. You pick a neutral color for your space and then you build on top of that. Now, a pro tip. You would like to avoid such colors, e.g. this color, this color, this color. Why? Because these are going to provide me with limited options for carpets and accessories and they are not suited for everyone. These three colors, 123. However, if we take a look at these three colors, this one, the white loved, the creamy, the grayish towards the black. This color the shade of gray, and this another shade, the shade of brown, this shade of white. These are quiet, the go-to options in terms of interior design, because they go hand in hand with any piece of accessory that you can think of. E.g. try to imagine you have this shade or the shade of coloring. And then you need to add some pillows, some carpets, some wall art. Your choices are endless. On the other hand, if you have this color for the furniture, how about adding a red piece of work artwork? Obviously it will not match. Or red vase, it will not match, but with this color it would. So that's the point of neutral colors. These are the colors which serve as the Canvas that you can use to help you paint your space the same way you're painting a piece of artwork. 12. Examples on Principle #5: Now let's go through a couple of examples to help you understand the application of a neutral colors. How do they fit and how can we apply them to real case projects for you to have a proper visualization. Now, if you take a look at the previous representation, these are the options. What are considered to be quite suitable, but how do they play into real contexts? Now take a look at this, the left side. Let's say we picked this current color and this current color for the sofas and for the pillows. And then we went for this current color for the curtains. Now, if you take a look at the blend for the fusion between the walls, the painters considered to be white. So we have white transitioning to a bit of Bache than transit, transitioning to a darker shade of the gray and black, lighter black. Then we do have a bit of brown here. And all of them, they are within the same range. You do have white, gray, brown, black, all of them. They have been allocated interchangeably. Now if you look at this, it fits perfectly. There's nothing wrong with this. And it doesn't create any visual discomfort. All the colors they blend together smoothly and this is what you should be aiming for. Now, because we've done this, we have established proper selection of colors. Every single piece of accessory can simply fit and take a look at the Brown chairs, e.g. even though there are dark brown, like burnt wouldn't Brown. And they have placed in such a fashion, their colors still blend with the neutral colors. How about the golden chair over here? Now, this golden share, even though it's a metallic chair, and I wouldn't recommend going for a metallic chair if you have linen textures, but if you go up, if you're going for just simply for the sake of the color, the color would fit perfectly, wouldn't be an issue. Take a look at the tree or the plant, the greenery in the corner. This complements the entire space by having such a white part and a huge green plant, it blends smoothly with the entire surroundings. Not to forget the view from behind the back door. Take a look at this. If you open this door, you are just simply stepping into the backyard. Now, the tree is the greenery, their colors, they do not collide with the interior of the space. This is next level, architectural skills and interior design where you fuse or you blend the interiors with the exterior of the place, such that it's homogeneous experience, where someone walking into the space outdoors transitions smoothly indoors without having that glitch in terms off the experiences from the outdoor and indoor space. Now, take a look at the second alternative case that we have. Now in this current case, we have one for this current color as a base for the sofas. And then for the pillows. Some of them from this color scheme, some of them from this color scheme. Take a look at the artwork, e.g. now, these pieces of art, they complement the neutral colors. Take a look at this center table and the central pieces. All of them The fall within the same shades of the color. White, gray, dark gray, light gray, dark brown, black, dark black. But in this case we don't have brown other than the basket over here. Towards the light ground to blend closely with the gray. But in order to help you visualize this, zoom out a bit and take a look at the macro view. Everything seems from the same color, but they are not from the same color because we have shades of the color. And we are able to use those colors and all of their shades within the space of a because these are considered to be a neutral colors, and that's the beauty of neutral colors. They provide you with options. Let's say at one point in time, let's consider this living room. You decide to change the pillows. Now. You can you can add yellow pillows, read pillows, turquoise, green, brown, black. All of them would fit perfectly on the sofa because it's made up of a neutral gray color. The curtains, you can just simply go all black or brown or white. Even green would fit perfectly as well because you have a neutral base. If you'd like to change the plant instead of having, let's say, a green plant, you decide to get e.g. a golden leaves plant that would look great within the space if you would like to change those chairs and literally just swap them within another goal that share over here, it would look even better. Why? Because you do have options and the base, which is made up of a neutral colors, is able to accommodate all of these options. Take a look at this current case. I can change the entire frames, the artwork to something which is completely read, or we're just simply a red feathers or three-piece Canvas where you have one piece and another piece and another piece, they compliment each other. You could have completely turquoise, completely green, or even purple. Still, it would look quite fascinating. Why? Because you do have neutral colors as the base, which allows you to play with the accessories. Now what do I mean by the base? That means the furniture, the ground and the paint. So the flooring, the furniture, which are the sofas, the heavy furniture, the big stuff, the paint, and the curtains. These are the main pivotal components for you to select a neutral colors and then complement them. Weld accessories from whatever color that you feel best fits your own preference and style. So at this current point, we've understood the application of a neutral colors and the importance of neutral colors in terms off our home staging efforts and interior design strategies and techniques. 13. Home Staging and Interior Design Principle #6: Now to the current key principle as part of Home Staging approach and design practices, you need to create a sense of space within the real estate. At home, a villa, an apartment, every single zone, a living room, a master bedroom, a child's bedroom, a washroom, outdoor space, backyard. Every single one of those zones within the complete real estate should have its own identity. You should create a sense of harmony such that the moment a potential buyer steps into the space, this should step into an experience. They transition to the living room. You take a look at the furniture, everything is properly arranged, they pass by the kitchen. There should be sufficient space for ease of movement and transition within the space and from one space to another without having obstacles for tight, narrow hallways, everything should be quite smooth and flowing. In addition, you should make sure that every single zone, Let's say you have multiple rooms. Every single room should be treated like a zone or space by itself where it's best features are highlighted. You use specified specific furniture based on that specific space, e.g. you do have a washroom, one of them, you're going to present that washing with a spy experience and another washroom. It's more of a laundry bays or more of heavy-duty experience. The other one is going to be a living room. And that living room is going to provide a sense of coziness or family time, which is oriented to hosting certain gatherings. The other zone would be a kitchen, which is more about, let's say, group cooking activities or an open layout kitchen. All of these things provide a sense of the visual experiences and this is your main goal. You need to make sure that every single area or every single zone within the space that you have is providing a sense of experience and flow. Even the accessories, the furniture, the textures, the paint, the colors, the artwork. All of these provide a sense of an identity and every single area, its own identity with them, the space they can look at the examples that we have below. Now, on the left side, it's a small house, but you can tell that every single space has been separated properly. Who do have the living room where you have the light beige neutral color. And that neutral color has been broken with green, orange, a bit of white with some paint, with some textures and paints on it. Then we're going to go for the center table to small wooden table complemented by a white woman rug. This provides the parameters for our living room. At the backside, you do have open kitchen and you do have a dining table for two, which could be a small family. Every single space, like I've mentioned, should have its own experience. If someone walks into the living room, they would notice the dining area, the kitchen, and then they flow outdoors. The open the doors, curtains are open in order to see what's beyond those Perkins. You open the door, you transition to the backyard, and you notice they do have a table over there just simply for family gatherings once they transition from the living room, kitchen, kitchen, living room and outdoors. So it creates a sense of flow while maintaining the identity of every single space. Here's another example. This is the living room. Now, this living room, they went for the grayish white in neutral color and the broke it off with a spectrum of neutral colors and not so unusual colors. Dark blue, light brown, white, gray with some textures. And feel free to just blend colors with textures as well. Just simply a slim rug and they have a puff couch and they have a small central table. At the backside. They do have a dining table which is suited for six individuals in front of the kitchen, even though this is one complete space, but it has been broken down properly, such that if someone is walking in from here, they're able to spend some time in the living room, transition to the kitchen. And between the kitchen and the living room smoothly, like every single area is given its own identity. You have a living room, you do have a kitchen, and then you step outside, you have an area which is filled with greenery is dark wooden part k woods, fluorines, which is like a dark wood, which considered to be within the neutral color spectrum. And you didn't have a lot of greenery is, and you do have an outdoor seating area as well. Again, creating a sense of identity for every single space. You do have a living room. We do have a dining area to have a kitchen. You do have an outdoor area, but all of them the art together within the same real estate, such that whenever someone steps inside, they go from one experience to another, from one identity of the space to another. So this is what do we mean by creating a sense of space. 14. Technqiues to Create Welcoming Space: We've taken a look at the principles for home staging. Now we're going to add up some extra level of in-depth knowledge and pro tips and experience on how to make a space appealing and attractive to potential buyers. Now we're going to take a look at the techniques, how to create a welcoming space. So the whole point is to create an appealing space that would drive interests and enhance the spatial experience through various zones of the housing. This is a very important thing to keep in mind as you are developing a home staging approach. You should keep in mind that to create a welcoming space, every single-space should be broken down into zones. What do we mean by zones? Living rooms, bedrooms, outdoor areas, indoor areas, garage ways, and special features such as a pool area, e.g. or a garden, It's spacious garden or a barbeque area. So all of these are considered to be features and zones within the real estate, within the bigger picture, which is a house or an apartment, or a villa, or a townhouse, irrespectively, regardless of the size of the real estate, it should have zones in it. And within every zone, you are creating an experience as we have seen in the previous principles. Now if you take a look at the current images below, now you notice e.g. this is a bedroom. Now, this bedroom is providing a luxurious experience. On the other hand, you do have a living room. This living room is providing more of a nature-based experience where you have the fusion of artwork, plants, greenery. You do have the view from the windows. We do have the lighting which is providing a more natural experience with the surroundings. So every single one of them as a part of a house, it says zone with them the same house. This is considered to be, let's say a villa. You do have the master bedroom providing such an ambiance, such an experience which exudes luxury in this case. On the other hand, you do have a living room or you do have a dining area which exudes the blend with nature and the surroundings of the house. As you can see, the houses surrounded by greenery. And the transition from greenery out outdoors to greenery indoors, as we can see from the huge central piece, would be herbs popping out and the artwork which has a blend of green and yellow, which matches the outdoors and indoors and the pillows and delights. In addition to the natural light, it creates that fusion between nature and the living space. Even though both of them, they are within the same house. But every single space is treated as a zoned by itself with a certain experience highlighting a certain feature. And this is some of the techniques. One of the techniques that you should be using when you are home staging is trying to create a welcoming space through incorporating different zones. And how do you pick a zone? Well, obviously every single residents and the world, they do have the layout of a living rooms, wash rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, outdoors, indoors. That's the main, the main frame of work. But within those spaces, you should focus on what is the experience that you would like to leave as a first impression to that potential buyer. Whether it's a luxury or it's a down to earth experience, or being blunt, blending with nature, or it's a calming experience, or it's a bubbly experience, or it's a family oriented experience. All of these things, he would take them into account. And then for that specific zone, tried to incorporate this visual that you have through the selection of furniture, accessories, and neutral colors and to deliver that key impression from that zone that you are dealing with. So this is one of the advanced techniques to create a welcome space. Welcoming space in order to have the space become a more appealing to the potential buyer, it resonates with their own preferences. Let's say you are going to be selling your house to a family and that family appreciates family time. So you need a big kitchen, you're going to have a dining area. So you need to highlight that feature as part of the real estate that you have, you need to focus on it. You're going to have a proper dining table, proper lighting, proper furniture, a clean kitchen, properly organized to show the potential of that space to best match the preference of such a client or a potential buyer. Now, this wraps it up for this current lecture. Let's transition to the other techniques to create welcoming space. 15. Interior Design Technique #1: In order to make a space welcoming, you should utilize this free resource which has natural light. Many interior designers, decorators, homeowners, they tend to neglect the importance of such a free natural resource. In terms of complementing the space, natural light can make a space feel larger, brighter, and even more inviting. The natural essence of light can actually create a positive vibe within a space, especially if you're planning on selling a property. If you have a view. And is it within that time of the day where natural light just simply flowing into that space, your potential buyers are actually more prone to buy the space compared to actually assessing that space at a different time within the day. Simply due to the fact that natural light helps to create a positive vibe at positive ambience within the space, which increases the chances of your potential buyers, even your visitors or guests, to have a positive experience with that within the space. So in order to utilize such a space mixture that you win, those are quite clear and clean. Make sure there are no obstacles in front of the windows. Make sure that the curtains are quite clean and the complement the windows during that specific time of the day and just simply allow light to flow into the space with minimal obstacles along the way. Nothing to block the lighting, nothing to just simply act as an obstacle between the window and the movement or the flow of light mixture that light flows naturally within the space. Take a look at the image below. For an example. If you take a look at the skirt space, it's the living room and it's surrounded by Windows. And if you notice, there are no curtains at all, just simply allow the complete flow of natural light from the environment into the space, which quite compliments the space perfectly. Take a look at the greenery over here, which complements the greenery from the environment outdoors, light is flowing within the entire space, actually fully to the sofa, to the floor, to the chair, to the dusk, actually flowing across the walls. This entire space is radiating with natural light. And you should use this as a reference to help you utilize natural light in order to make your current space more welcoming. 16. Interior Design Technique #2: The second technique is a bit more advanced, which is the layering of light or lightweight layering when you are going to incorporate natural light. This is one strategy. However, you can use artificial lighting in various arrangements within the space in order to provide a certain ambiance or certain atmosphere within the current space. So in order to understand how can you layer lighting, you have to understand the types of lighting options that you have. First of all, you have the overhead lighting, which is the form of the ceiling lamps. You do have the task lighting, which are specific to certain applications, let's say reading or you're working, you don't have an office or you do have a desk, or you do have a certain lamp for a specific purpose, you're simply occasionally lighted on a lighted off based on the application, whether you are reading your sewing, you are writing e.g. instead of turning the entire lighting for the room on, you're going to turn that light on. The best basic example is thus club. And you do have the ambient lighting, which has the extra lighting that you can, you could add to the parameters of the space, or you can just simply add it in the form of spotlight. They can manually control through an app. So all of these are considered to be lighting options that you could use together, separately or layer them in order to create a certain ambiance within a space, e.g. if you take a look at the current image over here, you do have a ceiling lamp. You do have ambient spotlights have been added, and you do have a desk or a task lamp, which is considered to be a task lighting. Thus clamp. Now, this lamp plus the ceiling lights and the ambiance spotlights. In addition to the natural light from outdoors, it will create the following ambience within the space. Now, you could control it the way you feel it's necessary. E.g. you need to close the curtains. They're just simply have the artificial lighting. Or you need to close everything off and just simply have the natural lighting. So the layering of the lights within a space depends on the mood that you're trying to set or the preference that you've got that you do have e.g. you do have a gathering and you are going to be having a food outdoors. Obviously, you need to have the exposure of the natural light towards the kitchen and all the lights should be on to provide clearance of visibility as much as possible. On the other hand, if you're doing some nighttime reading e.g. you're going to just simply turn on this current lab or the overhead lamp and close everything off. So in terms of home staging, you could tinker with the lights in order to present the ambiance or to present the mood that you would like your potential buyer to be able to see and visualize. They can look at this example. This is considered to be a bedroom when actually it's a studio apartment where you have a bedroom and you do have the leaving group, all of them built in one space. Now, what has been done here is the fusion or the layering of natural light to showcase the living room. And you do have the artificial lights which have been placed at the form of spotlights, ambient lights at the same time. Lamps, which are task lighting, all of them have been turned on to show the potential of the space. Whenever you have lighting, it increases the size of the space. At the same time. It shows the small details with them, the space. In order to shed light on the potential features that space is going to be presenting and it has to offer to the potential buyer, lighting is a very powerful technique. Layering of lighting is even more powerful. This requires practice. This requires a trial before actually having an open day for a real estate event. As part of the homesteading preparation, you need to experiment with this. If you do have multiple lighting options as the owner or as a real estate agent, or someone who's an interior designer, decorator, or for your own personal preferences, tried to tinker with the lighting options. Turn on a lamp and a ceiling, and the ceiling a bite. Then turn them off, then try with an ambient light and try to add some natural light and see which one of them provides the best ambiance possible. And that's your go-to option for layering the light properly as part of your home staging efforts. 17. Interior Design Technique #3: And another key important technique to make space more welcoming is through that division of textures. What do we mean by textures? Think about it this way. If you close your eyes and simply run your fingers across multiple surfaces, and if you experience a different feel between every single surface, That's an example of a texture. Take a look at the skirt image, e.g. you notice the colors, they're almost identical. The sofa, the curtains, the walls, the calendar desk, this chair, even the rug, even the floor, all of them, they follow the same shade off, gray, white, beige, and brown. However, what simply sticks out from the current layout is the material. In addition to the color? Take a look at the rug, e.g. it looks a bit rugged. The sofa looks a bit fuzzy. The churn looks a bit fuzzy as well. The walls are smooth. The lamp, the floor lamp is quite cylindrical and smooth as well. Take a look at the pillows. Now the pillows, they provide sensation of a solid texture. So all of these things, they are Material based, not colored. The color could be exactly the same. However, the material that texture could be quite different. So in order to add that extra touch to this space, make sure to incorporate various textures even within the same color spectrum. If you picked a white pillow, e.g. to what pillows? One of them could be a soft pillow. The other one could be a rugged pillow that will add some extra vibe, an extra experience through potential guests and to potential buyers. So a texture can add warmth and interests to space. Consider adding texture axons such as throw pillows. Look at the pills over here, e.g. area rugs. These are very powerful techniques to use, is actually through the utilization of area rugs, where you designate a space with a specific rug. This rug, e.g. will help set the parameters for the living room. Anything beyond this is considered an external part of that specific space. You can use decorative accessories, e.g. some wall art, some at table accessories. Advised e.g. to add some flowers and every single flower could be made up of different colours and actually different textures as well. This image is a great representation of the power of textures, even though the coloring is monotonic, specific, or limited number of colors. Yet there's a huge variety of options in terms of the experiences and the fields through the material. So if you'd like to better understand the term texture, once again, close your eyes and run your fingers across various surfaces. If you are going through different experience, every single time you come across a different service means you are encountering various textures. Texture should quiet, should be quite cohesive. They compliment each other with an intention, your guest or your potential buyer. Whenever they see furniture and they see various textures, they should be able to understand the message you're trying to portray. Does the space send a vibe of comfort, or it's a professional space, or it's a casual space, or it's a family-oriented space. So all of these things, those vibes that every single space should have, could be easily communicated with the use of textures and accessories, which will help you complement the space. 18. Interior Design Technique #4: Another powerful technique to actually transform an entire space every single time you feel like it is through the use of art and accessories. This is a powerful tool. It could be considered as a double-edge sword. Some individuals they tend to overdo it. Some of them they tend to do it. And it's up to you to try over and over again and find the right balance of what is the exact amount that you could incorporate within a space in terms of art and accessories to enhance that space without overwhelming that space. Most probably you have walked into multiple spaces within your life. And the first thing you notice, it's quite too crowded. Too many pieces across this space. Whether a wall art, whether accessories, whether displays pictures, It's quite overcrowded and it's overwhelming to the visitor. On the other hand, you might have walked into another space where you found a single piece of accessories on a centerpiece or a table. And then you ask yourself or you wondered, well, this is quite minimal. It could be better if you've added some extra stuff to that table, to that wall to enhance the space even better. So these are quite two extreme ends of the spectrum, and you should be exactly in the middle. Find that balance. Use accessories you as wall art sparingly and a very conscious manner to enhance the space. Once you get to a point where you actually find out that you are getting to borderline to overcrowding the space. Well, you've overcrowded this space. So step back, try to reduce the number of accessories and wall art that you have used just to make sure that you have used just the right amount. So artwork and accessories, they can add personality. If you are home staging and you're planning on selling the space, you have to be careful with this. You need to make sure that the artwork or the accessories, they do not portray you as a person, but they portrayed the space. If you have a certain, let's say, a living room as we have in the picture over here, the sofas as part of your home staging efforts have been bought, the wall has been painted, the labs have been selected, and you find out that you do have a wall, and the wall is quite empty, you're going to buy this piece of art to complement the rest of the space. Obviously, you're not going to be putting your own picture on the wall. Because again, This is not your space and a potential buyer would like to see a space and visualize themselves being present in their space. And they are going to put their own personal touch to that space. If you have your own personal influence on that space, that will create a buying obstacle. And we reduced the chances of actually used selling the property. Now, in order to avoid this, like I've mentioned, be selective with the accessories. Be selective with the wall art. The focus should be not what you like, but what would complement the space that you have to take a look at the picture on the other side. Now you do have a table and you do have wall art. And in order to complement, there's a bit of greenery, a bit of ceramics, a bit of glassware has been added with the similar shape of coloring that would complement both the transparent glass and the wall art. Obviously, the selection has been made on the complimentary aspect where one piece should complement the other. Nut on the personal aspect where the designer, the decorator, or the owner of the property is picking a piece based on his own interests, that should be put us put aside. The whole purpose is for you to create a welcoming space. And in order to do so like we have established earlier, it should be depersonalized. But once you depersonalize it space, it doesn't mean you do not add strategically art and accessories to help enhance the experience of the space without overwhelming it. 19. Interior Design Technique #5: The following technique is considered to be quite powerful in terms of decoration, interior design, and home staging. Now, when it comes to initiating the process of changing the decoration or the interior design of a certain space. You need to have a certain target or an end goal. The end goal should be a focal point. And the focal point could be in terms of an actual physical representation of a certain piece of furniture, a certain feature of the space, or a certain ambiance whenever you walk into a space. And the first thing that grabs your attention as soon as you open the door or as soon as you walk into a new space, a new house and new apartment and you villa, whatever it is. The moment you step in. The first thing that catches your attention is the focal point. As a smart designer, as a smart home stage, or you should be able to bring the best features of the space, the real estate. Through. Highlighting the focal point, take a look at the following examples. If we take a look at this following space, what is the first thing that grabs your attention? Now, some of you might say it's actually the natural lighting. And some of you might say it's the fireplace, right? Because as soon as you walk in, you realize that there's natural light flowing into that space, which could serve as a frame. To focus on the fireplace. Now, take a look at the accessories, the carpets, the chairs, all of them they tend to complement without overly crowding the area. Such that as soon as you step in, the first thing that grabs your attention is either the natural light or the fireplace. Now, let's say you would like to focus on the fireplace. What would you do? Obviously, light it on, make the fireplace functional such that whenever someone walks in, this is the first thing that grabs their attention, a functioning fireplace. And they will be able to imagine themselves in that specific place, which increases your chances of selling a property of your home stadium or providing a certain ambiance If you are decorating or interior designing for your own project or your own preferences. Now, take a look at the other space. This, the following image. Now whenever you step in, the first thing that grabs your attention is either the landscape view. It has a great view, or the incorporation of greenery. It's a big piece of accessory. It's a big piece of greenery which is added inside that space to attract attention. So whenever you step in, you would realize all of the color schemes, all of the color palettes, they are quite neutral. You do have shades of black and gray, beige, and brown. And the only contrast and color is provided through the green color, which is exhibited through the centerpieces and the greenery and the view. So the focal point and this current case is actually the landscape, the view that you can see from the space. So whenever you walk into any space, keep in mind, what is the focal point? What are you trying to achieve from this current space? Or what would you like your potential visitor or your potential buyer to imagine as soon as they step into that space. 20. Interior Design Technique #6: This is one of my favorite techniques. There's quite affordable, free of charge, yet very powerful in terms of creating the ambiance, creating that space, which is rearranging the furniture. Often interior designers, homeowners, decorators, homesteaders, they tend to forgot that they have the ability to move furniture from one place to another. They just simply take the space as is, and they would like to work with it. This is the first stepping stone that you should focus on as you transition into a space, take a look at the furniture. Are you able to arrange the pieces of furniture in a way to create open area, clear pathways for movement, avoid congestion, and create a cohesive look where the furniture pieces they compliment each other. Take a look at the following examples for guidance. So whenever you walk in, obviously you find out that you do have a sulfur in the forefront of that space and you do have a carpet which acts as an area plan or a zone carpet to designate that area where every single piece of furniture is actually on the carpet. It helps create a sense of a zone or a space, or functional space for a specific purpose. Take a look at the table, perfectly centered. Take a look at the greenery placed at the corners. Off either the carpet or the corners of the wall. Take a look at the lights. Take a look at the windows and the curtains. Now, from a macro view, it looks perfect, properly cleaned out, furniture, properly spaced out, and everything seems quite symmetrical. This is a very important point. Now if you compare the image on the left with the image on the right, obviously both of the spaces, they're quite clean. They're quite arranged. But give it a minute. Which one of those spaces gives you that vibe of comfort and neatness? Which one of those spaces actually, you would see yourself actually spending some time at. Obviously, there's going to be the one on the left side. Now, the main reason is taking into account the previous techniques that we have learned. Obviously it's going to be natural lighting, has more natural lighting. The space as broad. It provides an open area. And keep in mind, if you are visually able to stretch your eyesight, it will provide you with a sense of comfort rather than having a narrow eyesight. Also, there's one key hidden element which is cemetery. Our brains tend to like, things are quite symmetrical, organized in a specific pattern. Anything which is disorganized, even though it might be cleaned and arranged. But if it's not symmetrical, It's not a dimensional in a way. Our brains are not going to be very prone to liking that space. And this is the problem with the second image. If you compare both of them, the one on the left side, everything seems properly aligned, properly spaced out, the location of the table, but the location of the floor plants, the core plants, the lamps, even the cushions, they're properly spaced out now compared to the one on the right side. Now you do have a sulfur over here and then you do have this table with a chair in the middle of the space, which acts as an obstacle somehow. Imagine if you remove this or eliminate the entire chair and table, it would look way better. Now take a look at the greenery. It's placed with without consideration to a certain limit of what would be the overcrowding number. So if we take a look at all of these, you got one over here, one over here, one over here, one of the corner and one on the ground, and a couple on the table and one hanging over here as well. So you'll be able to understand that having greenery is a nice touch. But once you take a look at the space, you can tell it's a bit too much. Now if you take a look at this current chair over here, obviously you would notice it doesn't belong to that space. Now we've, we've dove in into a microscopic view where we take a look at every single piece of furniture. Where is it placed? And should we rearrange it to make the space more symmetrical, more organized, more laid out properly, providing clear pathways. So if you take a look at the macro view, this looks way more convenient compared to this, even though both of them they equal clean, their needs, their tidy up. But our brains tend to prefer the one on the left. Simply because of the symmetry. Everything is properly located and you should keep this in mind whenever you are rearranging furniture. You should keep in mind the aspect of properly locating the pieces of furniture inner space from a microscopic view and a macroscopic view. Take a look at the piece of furniture up-close upfront. Are they properly spaced out, then walk backwards, take a look at the entire space. Does everything seemed perfectly aligned? If you're able to check both of those criteria, then you have properly rearrange your furniture. 21. Interior Design Technique #7: Now when you are home staging a property for sale, you should always keep in mind the psychological end of a potential buyer. And this applies for interior designers and homeowners who would like to simply to decorate their own spaces, like I've mentioned in this current course, actually tackled all of those ads. When it comes to fulfilling all of these criterias, it's important to use a neutral color palettes. Now, a neutral colors, they provide a sense of calm, a sense of a welcoming space, compared to having popping colors all over the space which could overwhelm the potential buyer, overwhelmed the visitor. Now, when we're taking a look at the neutral colors, take a look at the following examples. We can do have white or let's say off-white. You do have gray, you do have beige. You got dark beige and you have dark gray. You got black, you got different shades of black. Then you do have off-white, which is, which tends to go towards yellow. You got plain white, you got brown and you got gray. So all of these colors, even over here, you can take a look at their code just simply to have an idea. They're considered to be neutral because visually they don't pop or they don't provide you with an external stimulus for your brains to start to analyze. Usual, our brains are susceptible to colors based on the lightwaves, the electromagnetic spectrum we do have the red, yellow, green, blue, indigo. All of these colors, they tend to provoke your visual ants, or they tend to provoke your optical nerves, which leads to stimulating the brain, which could be positive to some buyers and could be negative two others sought to increase the chances of actually providing general, generic welcoming space, a calming atmosphere. Always go for neutral color cyclic of the image over here, you can tell every single aspect of this space is provided with the reference to neutral colors from the sofa, the carpets, the tables, the chair and the curtains, even the wall paint. All of these shades have been used and this current space, and the reason is whenever a buyer steps into that space, they are able to visualize their own personal items within that space without having a challenge, without facing some difficulty. When you add a lot of color, a lot of personal items. It could overwhelm the space. And the potential buyer or the, or the visitor is actually struggling to comprehend that space rather than just simply seeing themselves enjoying that space. When you use a neutral color palette, you are creating a welcoming environment which appears to a broad range of potential buyers There you to focus on because you have no idea what it was, the persona of your potential buyer. So to increase the chances of selling that property, you need to appear appeal to a broader audience or a broader potential pool of buyers. And the word that goes through this is through the use of neutral colors. And you can add a bit of color every now and then, wherever here and there, just for the sake of stimulating the imagination of the potential buyers that the space has a lot of potential. We have a neutral colors laid out, but this space could actually walk them all of the potential opportunities or the potential changes that the potential buyer could actually bring to that space. So you need to provide that push to your buyer to actually see themselves in that space. In order to do so, you need to provide them with a calming environment, a welcoming environment. And the first key step to have such an ambiance is through color. And in order to achieve this, you're going to be using a neutral color palette to help you reach the ambiance, which will increase the chances of successfully selling a property. 22. Interior Design Technique #8: Bringing life to a space. Nothing literally nothing beats the addition of greenery. Whenever you have plants and flowers, you're literally adding the life and vibrancy to space. Why? Because plants, they are living creatures. Usually you have pets, dogs or cats, but plants are actually living creatures. They grow and you need to feed them and you give them sunlight to give them water. So you are adding literally life to space and it's often forgotten by many homesteaders, interior designers, homeowners are looking forward to decorate the space. They need to add certain elements of life. They keep adding pictures. They add the ad a sofa. And yet the space seems dull. And the key answer would be through the addition of greenery. Take a look at the following images. Imagine you didn't have these pots of plants on the left side, on the right side, the entire space, even though it's neat, organized furniture quite clearly laid out. Everything is quite symmetrical and visually appealing. The space would seem a bit dull. It's like missing something. Try it out. Imagine that you don't have this part over here and you don't have this part over here. The space would seem incomplete simply by adding two different types of plants. You've added life to that space. And this is your main target. Don't be afraid to experiment. You can start off with having small plants and flowers, various colors. Either a floor plans or D can have some flowers on the table, or we can just simply have them as centerpieces on your dining area or as a corner part with a huge plant. Feel free to experiment. Because whatever option that you're going to go for it there, it has literally no negatives, just simply positives. You can put them at the center of your living room, on the table or on the corners. Or you can just simply put them within that space and they will blend in quite smoothly. But the only key thing here is don't overwhelm the space with greenery. Obviously, you're not going to change the space that you have into a garden or a park. On the contrary, there will be, this will be quite counterproductive. Always aim to have three to four pieces of greenery of various sizes. Visually, what I would recommend is if you have a living space, try to have wanted to plants in a pot, whatever pod that you prefer within the corners. And then you can just simply play with the designs of the plant. Either you can go for this kind of plant, or you can go for this kind of plan, whatever. Or we can just simply go for a bamboo tree or just simply a bonsai tree. Regardless, by just implementing those key steps, adding two plants within the corners of the space, you'll be able to transform the ambiance of the space from being dull, too full of life. 23. Tips for Decluttering and Depersonalizing the Space: Segment of the course, I'm going to walk you through a couple of key important tips for de-cluttering and deep personalizing a property, which is a very important part, especially for homesteaders planning on selling a property, you would like to make sure that the property is in neutral. It has no personal items, no personal touch off the current owner, the current landlord, or the current render of the space because this acts as a block to your potential buyer because I'm not able to see themselves in that space. The first key important thing to do is just simply start with a plan. Have a certain sequence of stuff that you need to do. I have a certain budget that you're going to be using to reach that specific goal. What is your budget that you have in terms of buying accessories, buying greenery, or buying a piece of furniture? And what is the sequence of steps? Are we going to start with removing the carpets for moving the furniture, cleaning the floors, clearing the washroom is cleaning the kitchen, all that sort of stuff. Start with a plan, just simply list, write down all the things that you need to do to declutter and depersonalize the property, remove personal items. This is very important. Pictures are furniture which is quite related to the current owner of the space or the current landlord, you should make sure that it's neutral. All of these items should be either removed from the space or stored appropriately. The clutter. Less is more when it comes to interior design. If you have a space, the first thing you'll walk in and you take a look at it, it seems overcrowded. Just do that task. It seems overcrowded. It means things should go and try to remove the things which are quite useless and have no impact whatsoever on the ambiance of the current space. Organize. You had to have furniture, put them in a proper layout, put them in a symmetrical manner. The pieces of the furniture are properly facing each other. It's visually appealing. And all of the centerpieces, in terms of the accessories, the wall art, everything is properly located within the space. Nothing just simply thrown here and there. Deep, clean. This is very important. Even you could have the perfect arrangement of the furniture, the perfect layout, the perfect view, perfect focal point, but a bit of dust could actually ruin your potential prospects of actually selling a property. Deep clean, make sure everything is spotless from the tables, the washroom, the kitchen sinks, all of these things. They send cues. Keep in mind that your potential buyers actually walking on eggshells. A small indicator of Q of dirt, lack of hygiene could be the sign that the looking forward to actually not buy the property and you should eliminate those outs. Consider storage solutions. If you do have a lot of personal items within that space, gets some boxes, get some shelves with hidden covers. We can allocate all of these spaces just simply I put them on the side. Focus on curb appeal. This is for the exterior part of the house. If you do have a villa, you do have a townhouse and planning on selling the property, and this applies to interior designers and decorators as well. You take the internal part of the property is very important, but it's not as important as the external property. Because as soon as the potential buyer steps foot on the property, they're going to take a look at the space from the exterior part, the walls, the color at the yard, the bricks on the sidewalk, all of these details, they matter. So make sure that the curve is actually cleaned. The cluttered, no toys here and there and no animals here and there and no bags or whatever it is, which could be blocking the full view for that potential buyer. So make sure that the whole goal is to create a welcoming space which is quite organized, clean, hygienic, the cluttered, depersonalized, and visually appealing. From the moment the potential buyers steps foot on the property, they examined the exterior, they walk into the main entrance, even the main entrance, the knob, all of these stuff should be cleaned out. The doorbell should be quiet, functioning properly. If you do have a metallic mob, that metallic knobs should be spotless because the potential buyer, again, is walking on eggshells. Imagine these step into the property and the ring the doorbell and then all of a sudden it's not working. They tried to knock on the door through the knob and the grabbed the knob and it's full of dirt. So all of these negative cuz whenever they step into that property, it could be magnificent from within. It's going to slightly influenced their decision. Your main target is to have a smooth, complete experience outdoors and indoors. 24. Tips for Choosing the Right Furniture: This section of the course in which I'm going to walk you through the steps for choosing the right furniture. Now, these steps are in the form of bullet points. We're going to walk through the description of every single one of them with a brief explanation to help you understand it better. Now, starting off with the importance of choosing the right furniture, furniture is an essential, necessary piece of the entire home staging effort and the're design effort or did the creative effort. If you add the wrong pieces of furniture, you could actually ruin that potential view of the buyer, or it could ruin the potential usage of a certain space. Now let's walk through these key important points. First of all, you need to consider this of the property. Now, the furniture and accessories you choose should complement the style of the property, e.g. a. Modern property would look best with contemporary furniture, while a traditional property would look better with classic furniture. When you are buying a certain piece of furniture, take a look at the use of the space. Are you trying to involve modern architecture if your entire, let's say Villa, as a modernly designed space, it has a certain edges. It looks a bit modernized compared to the regular at townhouse, e.g. or the previous designs for houses requests landed on both sides. Now, for the first option, obviously you need the piece of furniture to match the architectural end of this space. They shouldn't be modern and contemporary. But if you do have a classical house or classical villa, you need the pieces of furniture to match the vibe. So this point is quite self-explanatory in the sense your furniture should match the architecture of the space. Keep it neutral. This is a very important point. We keep on emphasizing this point. Whenever you are selecting furniture, keep in mind the neutral colors. Feel free to revert back to the lecture on the color palettes, neutral color palettes as a reference, when you're buying a piece of furniture, keep in mind the bold colors do not appeal to everyone. So in order to increase your chances of providing the right vibe, the right sense of welcoming space, your potential buyer to visitor, to your client, whatever it is, you should use a neutral colors during the selection process of furniture. Use appropriately sized furniture. If you buy a sofa, e.g. it's going to be at three cedar sofa or a two-seater so far as the space for a big family or small family, because a few oversize the furniture, you're going to overcrowd the space. And if you undersized is going to be empty. Once you are picking the piece of furniture, keep these key important points in mind. Try to measure the dimensions of this space, the length, and the width before buying the furniture. Then when you go to the shop and you want to buy the piece of furniture on a piece of paper you should have with you the layout clearly drawn, sketched a certain point with a ruler, the length, and the width, and take a meter with you whenever you buy that furniture. Just simply tried to measure it in terms of the length and the width that dimensions, and compare it to the layout that you have. This will give you an indication roughly whether that piece of furniture could fit into that space with that creating obstacles. Now, the high-end of the job would be you should have a proper drawing off the space. With every single part of the space clearly placed on the layout map. You take that map with you. I don't. Whenever you want to buy the pieces of furniture, you're going to measure them. And then once you measure them, you're going to have a designer or a draftsman actually map those pieces of furniture on that layout to have a complete layout, we can visually take a look at the furniture on the plan, or to take it a bit further, you could have a 3D simulator or visual, visual presentation software that's used in architecture. You can just simply take those pieces of furniture and placed them such that it's a virtual home staging approach, let's say, before actually attempting to buy those pieces of furniture to help you have a clear end goal as you go about purchasing those pieces of furniture. Now, don't overcrowd the space, which is quite obvious when you're buying those pieces of furniture. Keep in mind. Less is more when you are designing interior, designing and decorating a space or homesteading in space, it's important to leave plenty of space for potential buyers to move around the room. Avoid overcrowding the space with too much furniture or accessories. Focus on creating an open and inviting space that allows potential buyers to see the full potential of the property. Keep in mind the previous steps we talk about creating a focal point, creating a certain ambiance and vibe and clear pathways for movement. You don't want to overcrowd the space. Then you're going to add accessories to create and crisp. You can add a flower vase, you can add wall art, a bit of accessories here and there. Feel free to experiment to help you add some visual interest to the space. Keep it clean, a well-maintained. This is very important. You could have the most expensive piece of furniture, yet it's not clean or it's damaged. It's pointless in this case because obviously the moment your potential buyer or your clients steps into that space, that damage or that ruined piece of furniture, it's going to grab their attention. They're going to be focusing on it and not looking at the other great parts of that space. So keep this in mind. Whenever you are buying pieces of furniture, make sure that your furniture is quite clean. It's not damaged. And even though it could be clean, give it a check-up as well, just to make sure that the furniture exudes hygiene, suits the ambiance of being neat and tidy because your potential buyer, once again, is going to be picking on those vibes eventually, to make the decision of buying the property or not. So do not underestimate the damage that ruined furniture or dirty furniture could have on the decision-making process for your potential buyer or the experience of your client at potential visitors, whether your interior designer or just simply a homeowner. So keep in mind when you are buying furniture, make sure to follow these steps as a guideline to help you make the right choice. 25. Tips for Managing Budget & Styles: The course in which I'm going to walk you through certain key important guidelines on terms of how to work with different styles. I'm budgets. If you're a homestay germ theory designer or a homeowner. Obviously, you do have a budget that you need to work with in order to achieve your goal. Now, you need to start off with the basics. This would involve minimal investment from your budget, and literally it could be free as well. Now, the basics are decluttering, depersonalizing, and cleaning the space. Now if you're going to be hiring a company to do this, this should be the minimal investment that you should do from your budget. Now what I mean by minimal doesn't mean you spend the lowest amount from your budget. On the contrary, it means this is the first thing that you should do. This is the least bare minimum that you shouldn't be doing from that budget, which is actually the basics. Then prioritize, Let's say you do have multiple rooms within the space. Why you should focus on what should you use your budget for? Now, in order to eliminate a narrow down the choices, you're going to be focusing on these, the kitchen, living room, master bedroom. And you're going to invest in high-quality pieces of accessories that will help you make an impact. These spaces, they affect the comfort level of your potential buyers, so you need to focus on those mix-and-match. If you do have various pieces of furniture, various styles, you should be creative, resourceful, tried to allocate different piece of furniture together. Whether a coffee table, you're going to be adding e.g. a. Mother's sofa. Arrange them in a certain way with Pete and redo till you find the perfect arrangement which gives you that sense of a welcoming space which your potential buyer would feel as well. Use neutral colors. Obviously, when you have a limited budget, you don't want to spend your budget on popping furniture. Make sure that the sofas, the cushions, all of them, they follow the neutral color scheme. And usually these are the cheapest in terms of the pricing, popping colors, the fuzzy and various types of accessories that they are quite abstract. They tend to be more expensive, neutral colors. They provide the purpose of creating a welcoming space at the same time, they are budget friendly, be creative. Try to experiment at some pieces of art, at some accessories that you have, reuse some of the stuff that you have, and try to add them to a space, to the space and a certain arrangement to create the ambiance would involve experimentation, failure, and success. But obviously, the more you practice, the better you'll be added. Tried to add a bookshelf, tried to add a small divider or boxes for organization. These are quite affordable and cheap options which will help you declutter your space, the personalized this space without breaking the budget. And finally, consider virtual home staging or virtual interior design. Now, obviously if you're home stage or this could work for you, but if you're an owner or someone who's planning on decorating your space. This would be quite helpful in the design stage because obviously it's virtual. You're not going to be basing your decision on this. But for a homestay major, since they have a certain budget that you shouldn't be working with or they should be working with. Virtual stealing could be quite helpful where they can actually have the open layout then at pieces of furniture and create various options virtually without paying a penny. Then following which, once the complete plan and the 3D model is laid out, go ahead and buy those piece of furniture. Saving the money in terms of buying the wrong pieces of furniture or something which does not fit the style or the ambiance which is planned within the process. Now, take a look at this image, e.g. you can see that the color scheme is a neutral. The furniture is allocated properly in a symmetric fashion, organized properly. The focal point is obviously the fountain outdoors and the green area. It's neat and tidy, just simply follows all of these key important points. The creativity part and the virtual seating part would be added to this space by simply shuffling the pieces of furniture or taking this layout as is, and moving it to a modelling software and add pieces of furniture and then assess as this addition worth it or not. So these are key important points, tips that you can use to help you work with budgets and work with different styles to help supplement your home staging efforts, your interior design efforts, and you're the creative efforts. 26. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Living Room: This newly added section of the course in which we are going to learn how to actually conduct interior design steps for specific spaces. In the previous sections, we learned about strategies, techniques, different implementations that you can adopt to any project that you're dealing with. And this current updated section, we're going to be taking every single space with them, let's say an apartment, a villa, a house, real estate property. We're going to give it its own specific consideration in terms of home staging, interior design, and decoration. Starting off with the living room. The living room is basically the space which is often considered a gathering spot. It's a hub where people actually sit down for family time or you have guests over. And this is the place where you have multiple individuals being collected in a certain environment. So in order to create a successful interior design practice for living rooms, you have to consider key aspects. First of all, warmth and invitation. The space should exude a sense of warmth and inviting vibe such that whoever is going to be engaging with the space that you're providing is going to witness a certain level of comfort based on the furniture, the color scheme, the distribution of the furniture, the lighting. All of these elements like we have discussed so far, they tend to complement one another to achieve an angle. So if you take a look at the following images, you can use them for reference and for guidance. You can tell that both of these living rooms have been properly designed with sufficient consideration to the elements that we have discussed, such as the natural lighting, than you do have the proper placement of the furniture in a symmetric fashion. You have various color schemes and they are complementing each other based on neutral colors. They are blending properly. You get accessories on both ends which are adding an extra touch to that specific space. And it exudes a certain level of comfort simply by taking a look at these images, you're able to tell that once you step into that space, It's quite organized. The cluttered, depersonalized colors are properly blending. The paint on the wall is complementing the furniture and everything is organized in a systematic fashion. Once you're in that space, what to expect your experience is going to be comfort. This is the main purpose of a living room. It should provide a sense of warmth and comfort for invitations, for gatherings, for hosting a certain event. This is the hub for any real estate property, your apartment, your Avila. If you're a homeowner, you would like to just simply brighten up your living experience. Consider focusing on your living room because it's that space where you spend most of your time during the day interacting with your living environment. Let's say you should make sure that includes elements such as furniture based on neutral colors, accessories which complement the furniture. Curtains, natural lighting control, and artificial lighting as well, such as lamps, for example, that you can use. If you've got a fireplace as well, you can use it to add some extra vibe to that place. So these are the key considerations that you should keep in mind once you are conducting decoration. Decoration actions, degrading actions, or interior design practices, or Home Staging efforts for a living room? 27. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Dining Room: One of my favorite spaces within any real estate property, which is the dining room. Often business deals, sales, great experiences are conducted or they take place within such a space which is the dining room, over food, where you break bread with people and your guests. So in order to provide a very systematic design, you should keep in mind that whatever style that you would like to follow, either classical, modern style, irrespective of the archaic, old-fashioned. It's up to you, but there are key elements to keep in mind. Sophistication and organization and elegance. The dining room shouldn't be fine-tuned with kitchenware such as forks, plates and knives, which are quite cohesive and the complement the chairs and the table. And keep in mind to always add a centerpiece. It can be flowers, a vase, or any piece of ornament or architectural piece that you have, you could put at the middle of the table to create a sense of symmetry and properly placed the kitchen where the plates, the forks in front of the chairs and the equivalent spaces such that whenever someone transitions into the dining room, they see an perfect pattern. Organized sequence of bytes allocated and five tables, like we've mentioned. Our brains pick up on those cues in order to provide a sense of elegance and sophistication, you need to focus on Cemetery, properly allocating the kitchenware and the creative pieces in on, on the table in a systematic fashion have a centerpiece. Get the plates and spoons and forks organized right next to each other, in front of every chair. And make sure that the chairs and the tables, they are complementing each other color wise. To take a look at the images over here, both of them are two different styles. On the left side you've got the modern style on the right side we get a classical style. Both of them. They share elegance, sophistication and warmth. They seem inviting where you actually would like to enjoy having a meal with them, Those dining groups. On the left side you can see the centerpiece is basically a bowl filled with lemons, perfectly complements the table that you have over here, which is made up of food. And we got metallic chairs black in color, and we got the table to be brown, which is what both of them, they're considered within the shades of neutral colors and the blend perfectly with the light lighting. We got chandelier over here. We have greenery properly placed at the corners and over-the-counter, such that you have a cohesive, complete look and feel. That this is a modern style which is tilting towards nature. You got the lights, you got the natural lighting, you got the greenery, you got the wooden table, you got the centerpiece, which is made up of a natural element, lemons, flowers as well. All of these, they compliment each other. Take a look on the other side. You do have a classical carpet with flowers patterns and decoration. And we have a centerpiece which is made up of flowers and it complements the wallpaper would give flower pattern as well. Not too intrusive. A bit, like blending smoothly with the environment. You've got natural lighting from both sides, just exuding natural lights, light rays on the table. So this is a classical setup. This is a modern setup. You can use them both for reference to help you develop an idea, but what's in common between them as organization, sophistication, warmth, and coziness, it shouldn't be inviting. Think about it this way. Would you like to have a meal in any of those places you have? The answer is just simply yes. It means you've done a good job. 28. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Kitchen: Transitioning to the engine of any household or real estate property and which is the deal breaker for many when it comes to selling a property or actually buying or renting out of property. The kitchen. Now there are various designs you've got modern design, classical design again, metallic cabinets, who got what and cabinets, plastic. All of these are endless choices. But there are key parameters to keep in mind when you are actually designing this pace. The kitchen space, first of all, hygiene is number one. Make sure the countertops or clean the faucets, the sanitary fixtures, all of these elements, even though they often, they're often neglected. But many individuals including yourself, you and I, you would notice that if there are stains on the faucets, there are stains on the countertop. Crumbles on the tables of you have an island or a centerpiece is going to have crumbles on it. It provides you with a sense of, you know, what, this is a space that doesn't provide quality of food. Hence, you don't want to engage with that space, even though you might not be conscious about it, but you pick up those cues. Take a look at these images, for example, for reference as well. Both of them. They share organization, they share hygiene and cleanliness. Also edition of decorative elements such as fruit basket, centerpiece with flowers and greenery, including a bit of greenery here and their natural lighting to provide extensive sense of extensive space within the kitchen, which is very important. A spacious, spacious kitchen overpowers a very small kitchen. That's for sure. So when you are blending the engine of a real estate property, which is the kitchen, with decorated elements such as a basis, fruit bowels, and complementing it with hygiene and organization. You will elevate the experience within the space for you personally, if you are using that space, everything is organized. Everything is quite clean and tidy it up. You will feel more comfortable cooking and engaging with that space. On the other hand, if you do have guests are coming over and they see an organized kitchen, everything is quite clean, organized. The plates are properly placed in one cupboard. You got cups properly located in another cupboard. Take a look over here, for example. You got cups on one side, you've got different size of cups on the other side, everything is organized. So for kitchen organization is key. Proper distribution of kitchenware and elements that you can use within cooking is essential. Hygiene, cleanliness, cleanliness go above and beyond in terms of cleaning every single part of the kitchen, the faucets, sinks, the countertops. There should be no stains know crumbles, even a single standard for catch-up, for example here and there couldn't be quite problematic to someone dealing with that space. It provides you with that negative vibe that you know what, It's not quite clean. Which will draw on your experience either if you're entertaining, gut, entertaining guests, or if you're planning on selling a property, the potential client or the potential talent, we put in a position where the doubt your transparency as someone selling them that property because it's not clean and it shows minimal effort being done to make it preventable. So these are key important tips to keep in mind once you are designing a kitchen or you're decorating a kitchen, 29. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Bedrooms: Transitioning to the bedrooms, the design theme for a bedroom revolves around one key element, which is comfort, relaxation. So when you are picking up furniture, you pick it up accessories. This is the main focus on your mind. This is the thing they should focus on the most. Every single piece that you pick for a bedroom, whether you're talking about pillows, mattresses, blankets, curtains, rugs, accessories on the countertops. All of these things should revolve around comfort, convenience and relaxation, and a cohesive look which doesn't seem quite ice training in terms of color patterns and textures, everything should blend perfectly, creating a very comforting ambience with minimal influx of signal that information to your brain. Take a look at both images. Now I provided you with both images to two different examples that lie on extreme ends of the spectrum. One of them is completely white and while the one is using a neutral color, which is mainly gray, but you'll see both of them. They exude comfort. On the left side you can see that we have a fluffy cushions. Pillows that you can use to send the vibe of comfort. You got to throw off blanket over here and you've got three different layers of blanket just provide that sense of luxury. Comfort, a welcoming space. They can just simply relax and take a look at the decoration over here, the wall art, the chair which complements the color from the bed. The color of the door complements the small chair over here, the bench that you have, and the flooring. So we've got three main color elements. We got brown, light brown from the word, and we do have white from the pillows, blankets, and the chair. We'd gotten gray from the second layer of the blankets and they throw a blanket as well. So all of these, they blend together, providing a theme which is comfort. Take a look on the right side over here, you do have a modern Sheikh design where you have a neutral color which is in gray and the low-level bad, which is close to the ground, it complements the rug. Take a look at the extra touch of metallic element, the golden elements, which adds the extra vibe to the space in terms of class and elegance. Now, try to imagine the absence of the golden color, the Golden Vase over here. You would find that it's too stale. It's two adult. By simply adding a bit of metallic texture, golden colors specifically, you added an extra vibe. Look at the frame of the wall art, even though it just quite plain, just a brush with a gray color on it by placing it within a golden frame, makes it look ups, abstract, unique, and special. And it complements the entire surroundings where you have various shades of the colors. We got brown, gray, light gray as well, and we've got a golden color. And for an extra level of luxury and comfort, there's a TV on the wall, and it's not intrusive to the entire setting, but it complements it in case someone needs that extra luxurious experience having a TV within the bedroom, they got access to it. So all of these you find out that they share certain key foundations. In terms of designing bedrooms. Simplicity, less is more, in this case, neutral colors to the maximum comfort in terms of textures and accessories, these are the key things to keep in mind as you go about designing bedrooms. Write them down. Feel free to pause the lecture and write them down. Because when you're dealing with projects, like as we're going through these spaces, these are the key elements you need to focus on and to check off your list as you're carrying it out with your design 30. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Bathrooms: One word sums up your design approach to bathrooms. Spotlight experience will actually it's more than one word, but you get the idea, it's a sentence actually, spotlight experience whenever you walk into the bathroom, if you want to add hotel before, it could be a very small pack bathroom, but it's properly organized and it provides you with that sense of comfort that you're going for an experience which is a spotlight experience. And the same thing goes over here. When you are designing a space, weather for home staging, you're selling a property or you're renting a property or buying out a property or for your own personal interests. When you are designing or read the creating your home and your space, your main focus for bathrooms to create a spot luxurious experience. You could add, for example, bath mats. You could add lighting, for example, a bit of greenery here and there, and pick up those scented lotions, soaps, and queens. They tend to provide that extra specific touch of luxury for whoever is going to be using them. And adduction, try to make me make sure that everything is quite clear and clean. The floors, the ceiling, the tub, the countertop over here, even with them, the sink and the faucet, everything's shouldn't be quiet spotless. They can look at both of these examples. The first thing that comes to mind, It's a spa experience. Everything is clean towels or clean towels are properly folded and organized. The tub is clear and clean. There's nothing there. No. It's not wet and smudgy and dirty. No. On the contrary, it's perfectly clean, spotless, literally spotless. And the vibe with the lighting is luxurious. It's warm. It has a bit of color into it. Lighting plays a role over here. On the left and on the left side we've got the cool lighting, which is white in color. Mainly. On the right side, you've got to be warm coloring, which is more towards a yellowish. The white colors, the cool colors they provide you with a sense of productivity and energy. The warm colors provide you with a sense of coziness and relaxation. This is part of the lighting design that we're going to be leaving to one of our other courses as well. So when you're focusing on bathrooms, make sure that your main focus is comfort and feel free to experiment with accessories. Adding greenery is adding a bit of a scented candles here and there just to add some extra sense of luxury with the main focus of spotlight experience. 31. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Spaces: Let's transition to outdoor spaces, which is the first thing that a potential buyer would see or your potential guests with experience as soon as they step foot onto the property. So you shouldn't give it sufficient attention in terms of your design efforts. When you are designing outdoor spaces, you should focus on comfort, a sense of invitation, and subliminal luxury. What does the word subliminal luxury? It would indicate that this is a luxurious property, but you're not showing off all the best features of that property. So how do you do this by a properly focusing on a certain purpose of that product, the outdoor space as a barbeque area, is it a seating area, It's pool area, or it's a playground for the kids. All of these are main focuses. So just simply try to go for one of them, focus on it and add accessories to complement it. Or you could have a multi-purpose outdoor areas, but makes sure that you divide this space equivalently where it's quite clear that this is a barbeque area. This is the pool area, and that's the kids play area, playing a playground. So when you don't want to have everything quite merged together, it's quite confusing for the potential buyers and for your guests as well. What is the purpose of the space in terms of how is it organized? How are you using this pace? And it will give them an impression about what to expect as they transition inside the space. If it's not organized on the outdoors, Most probably wouldn't be organized indoors as well. Take a look at both of these spaces. On the left side they provide it has a fire pit in the middle where we got a seating area, natural light, a bit of an umbrella just to add that extra level of luxury. And it's quite an inviting atmospheric. And we get a small thin rug to create a plot for the seating area. On the right-hand side, whenever you step into that property, this is the gate. The first thing that pops is nature. It's quite natural, filled with greenery, pots everywhere with Queens and flowers and shrubs and all of these things. And take a look at the seating area under the ceiling over here. The seating area has pillows which complement the greenery green pillows as well. So what is the vibe that you're picking from this? Most probably the homeowner likes nature, more nature oriented. And the experience that you would have revolves around being part of nature. That's the first impression that you would pick before even talking to anyone on the property. On the left side, whenever you step into the property, what's the first impression that you have? Luxury uncomfort. So it's up to you to tinker with the arrangement of the furniture and accessories. But for outdoor spaces, pick a theme or goal for luxury or going for nature. Are you going for a playground for Kids? Are you going for a barbecue area for family time or are we going going for a pool and relaxation experience? So pick one of those themes and tried to build your furniture and the selection of greenery to complement that 32. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Entrance: We're going to tackle the main entrance as specific as it sounds, the main interests is very, very important because it's the first thing that your guests are, potential buyers are going to be experiencing as they transition from outdoors towards the endorses. Here are a couple of key elements to keep in mind. First of all, clear the clutter and make sure it's perfectly clean. Everything is quite organized, quite spotless. The door, the knob, the frame, and the sides of the entrance add a doormat at the main entrance and shows a level of interests at a welcome, welcome home. Something inviting, something quite luxurious. And the sense of the message that you're going to be sending to your potential guests, and the texture and the thickness of the doormat, or how slim it is, how thick it is just to make sure that pops, it stands out because most problems whenever you want it to visit someone as your ring the doorbell, obviously you're going to be looking downwards. And the first thing that you see other than issues is the doormat add greenery, either from the frame suspended from the frame of the door or on the sides of the entrance. We're going to see a couple of examples on that. Greenery or vases or ornaments on the sides. It will help you to introduce the space to potential guests or bias. What are they going to expect in terms of the vibe and the ambiance whenever they transition into that space. Consider lighting, have some spotlights have just adore light. Once you click it, it turns on. It's a sense of an invitation that we are expecting guests in that case, which is something apparent, which is taught in hospitality one-on-one. Having some lighting creates a sense of invitation for your guests that we are expecting. You add a pop of color. You could either add the color through the doormat or the door itself, could be quite popping, can be red, it could be yellowish or green. At the door knob could be of a different style and texture. You could have one of those classical knobs you can use simply to bang on the door to let the owners of the space that you have arrived. So all of these accessories, the doorknob, the metallic piece at the center of the door, the centerpiece too, actually bang on the door and the color scheme of the door itself. All of these elements, they help you to add an extra touch to it, which we have mentioned that within the space, we tend to depersonalize the space, especially for home staging purposes and for buying or selling a property. You don't want to have the personal input from the current owner within the space. But on the entrance of the door, it would be quiet, friendly, and inviting to add a bit of a personal touch to it. It's simply could add a welcome sign or a personalized doormat like the one over here talking about once we are adding a doormat, just simply to welcome the potential guests and the potential buyers. Based on your own sense of welcoming. Let's say these are the key elements to keep in mind when you are home staging, decorating the entrance of the space. Take a look at the current examples which we can be used for reference. On the left side, you do have the transparent and trips and the potential guests nick can see with them the space. They can see a rug, we can see a spacious entrants. Everything is quite clear and organized. Take a look at this current space from the outdoors. So you've got the lighting over here, another light over here. You've got a bit of greenery and the wooden doors with wooden handles and a wooden frame. It provides you with the cottage like experience that you're walking into someone's somewhere which is not nature natural oriented, but it has its nature oriented that has a natural feel to it as it blends with elements from nature. Take a look at this example over here, very classical. Take a look at the house, neutral and colors. But what's popping in this case is the door. It's a bit of radish oranges in color. Whatever you step foot towards that space, it's the first thing that grabs your attention. What does it give you an indication of what exactly the homeowners or the potential sellers of the space, that they are vibrant individuals and energetic individuals, you could use just simply pick up those cues from these elements without even stepping into the property. Yet, take a look at the organization and cleanliness. Small herbs and shrubs over here that complement the entrance and provide you with a clear pathway towards this popping doors. So all of these elements, they tend to complement the main entrance and you should give the entrance attention as part of your design efforts. 33. Tips for Designing Outdoor Spaces: Welcome back to the section of the course in which we are going to apply interior design practices, strategies, decorations, kills, home staging efforts for the outdoor spaces. If you have a piece of real estate or your own private residence and you do have an outdoor space. This section of the course will provide you with ideas or strategies and techniques to help you transform that space into an experience. Now, once we are dealing with outdoor spaces, we do have a lot of options such as we have backyards, we again, balconies, patios. It's a space which extends beyond the purposes of PR a residence. It's considered to be an outdoor space. Take a look at the current image over here on the left-hand side, for example, you have a small seating area, outdoor seating area, have a fireplace in front of a brick wall to give you a sense of indoor experience. Let's say you got the tiles and you have the lighting on the side of the tiles, which we are going to use to help us create a sense of premises or a parameter for that space. Whenever you walk in, like we've mentioned many times within the course, our brains pick up on patterns. If everything is quite allocated in a systematic way, our brains will depict a sense of comfort. They can look at this image for better understanding. Now, you do have a patio which has an elevated deck outside of the living space. You've got your own wall in this current case, surrounded by greenery. Always, always, always whenever you do have an outdoor space, try to include and granaries, sky's the limit. Plants, trees, herbs, flowers. Experiment with different colors based on the seasons. Summer plants are different than winter plants. And you've got all-time favorites in terms of outdoor spaces and greenery such as oak trees, which are quite huge. And they provide you with the sense of space and integration with nature. Now, you're going to blend as well as furniture, keeping in mind the neutral colors. Once you're dealing with outdoor spaces as well. The same key principles we've talked about within indoor spaces, they transition to outdoor spaces. Also maintain a sense of symmetry and organization when you take a look at the image in front of you right now, what do you notice? Everything is systematic, everything is organized. This is one of the key important things to keep in mind. Now, in this section, we've highlighted multiple important points, but in the upcoming slides we're going to take a look at specific key strategies that you need to keep in mind as you deal with designing of outdoor spaces. 34. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #1: Welcome back and kicking things off with tip number one and strategy number one, cleanliness and hygiene go above and beyond when it comes to having a space tidied up, cleansed, cleaned out, you shouldn't do avoid doing the bare minimum should go above and beyond trunk to make sure everything is quiet spotless because once again, our brains, we tend to find a big things which pop out from the normal criteria. If you take a look at these options, for example, on the left side and right side, you notice that everything is quite clean, even the sides of the pool, even the water, the glass, the tables that share. We're not talking, talking about texture, how old or new something is. What we're talking about the aspect of cleanliness. Whenever you're dealing with an indoor space or an outdoor space, think about it just like wearing a shirt. If you have a shirt on it. So white shirt, it could be the best texture, the best linen, the best design, everything just simply perfect. But if we take a look at the sleeve of the Shorty, get a smudge of ketchup, for example. All of a sudden the best parts of that shirts are gone. And you're fixating only on the negative aspect, which is that much. And the same thing happens for guests and potential buyers. Specifically potential buyers, whenever they walk into the space, they are looking for a reason not to buy. Considered when you're buying a pair of shoes, for example, we try the shoes. You take a look at the texture. You walk around the store with the shoes, how do they feel? How do they provide you with a sense of comfort? How did they look out the price tag, all of these things? And then all of a sudden you realize that the shoe lace is a bit dirty, then you change your mind or you don't buy the shoes. The same thing happens with real estate, but the stakes are quite higher because everything should be accounted for. And a slight mistake like not cleaning the property. Also, in terms of having guests over, everything could be perfectly fine. You could have the most expensive pieces of furniture. Yet it's not clean. Obviously the experience going to be negative. So this goes as is number one on our list. In terms of having a clean and tidy space. Even once we're considering when we're talking about outdoor spaces. 35. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #2: The second key strategy to add on designing outdoor spaces, furniture, it's often overlooked when someone is trying to deal with an outdoor space, they're trying to make it look nice. The model on the AD plants, they are the add some greenery, some lighting. And the last thing that comes to mind, adding a sofa, for example, outdoors. On the contrary, once you go above and beyond with these design approaches, where you actually go beyond what's normal. This is what gets the attention in terms of making up properties and out. Take a look at the image on the left side, for example, you get a beachfront yes, sand. And you gotta elevated deck where the center of the table you get seating area around the table as if you're sitting in the living room but outdoors. Take a look at the other side. You've got a patio. You get greenery on the left-hand side and the right-hand side, you get a swing, and you get a sofa, three cedar sofa, and you get a coffee table with a book and a base, and a floor carpet, which is circular in nature, zoom out a bit, and what do you notice? It looks quite symmetrical. Nice fusion of colors and neutral colors. We've got the white paint, we got the dark brown and the light brown is beige. And the context and the blend between the added greenery and the natural scenery. All of these things, colors, arrangement of the furniture, the symmetry of the arrangement. They make this patio look exquisite. So when you're buying furniture for us, a certain outdoor space, keep in mind that the target is to have the space feel more inviting and functional. At the same time, you can consider adding a table chairs or a lounge chair to create a comfortable seating areas, especially when you're dealing with outdoor spaces. Comfort is your number one priority. Then you go for functionality. These are the two things to keep in mind. Luxury, That's for indoor spaces. 36. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #3: This is one of my favorite strategies and techniques for indoor design of outdoor design. Adding plants and flowers. Once you include a natural element within a space, whether we're talking about internal space interior design or external space exterior design. The blend, our diffusion between natural elements and the surroundings within the space. It creates a sense of comfort. At coziness provides with net, provides you with natural energy that you can just simply pick on as soon as you're engaging with the space. In addition to helping you fuse with nature, humans, we are natural creatures that are bonded to nature. Whenever you walk outdoors during sunlight or you walk outdoors in the afternoon, you're engaging with nature and you being influenced by the energy that you're picking up from your surroundings. So when you are designing for outdoors, adding plants and flowers can help transform the experience from being artificial to something natural. Feel free to experiment with various designs in terms of adding hanging baskets of flowers, we can just simply have, and bushes and flowers on the ground and merge with tiles. I got a couple of examples for you to help you visualize what I'm talking about. Take a look at this image for example, this is the top view for the same space. This is the top view. You do have white pebbles, artificial pebbles, and you've got the entire space surrounded with greenery. You could change the options of the plants. As you see, it seemed, seems nece, necessary. Or if you'd like to add some extra color, for example, you can change the green plants and have some Jasmine's, for example, you could have a black pebbles Over here. And why Jasmine provides a good contrast. In addition to the wooden tiles and the wooden dining table, take a look at the overhang, would embark beams to cover the seating area. Everything is quite worth made up food. In this current context, you got natural elements throughout. White pebbles, wooden tiles, wooden bars, wooden tables, wouldn't chairs, surrounded by plants, pottery or all these things are just simply elements from nature. You used to construct a proper design. Take a look at the side of you, for example, to help you understand it better. And the thing which influences this is the most is the lighting, the presence of lighting. Now, lighting design, we're going to be keeping it for a separate course because it requires a thorough technical attention in addition to the design and architectural aesthetics. Now, take a look at this grant example. You do have an outdoor tub. You do have an elevated seating area. Again, once you go outdoors, we're blending elements of rocks, Tone, greens, and would why natural aspects blending with nature wants to step outside the premises of this current residents. You're transitioning from marble tiles, wooden tiles, to the pond, which is the hot tub in this case, which gives you an idea or an image that you're walking into something, which is part of nature. You've got a pond, you get trees, you got what? You got marbles, we got pebbles. All of these things are elements which are present in nature by default, we are using them in a certain arrangement to provide us with a natural experience as an extension of the indoor space. Greenery once again, surrounding the space, you've got this designated area which keeps on changing. By the way, you can pick up those plants and flowers instead, which makes the space of vibrant and continuously evolving. This is one of the key tactics I like to keep in mind when it comes to designing outdoor spaces based on my preference, obviously, having the options to change the elements within this space. For example, changing the greenery, different types of plants or flowers, changing the furniture, changing the flooring, if possible. If you do have tiles over here, it's quite difficult to change them every now and then, but you could change the pebbles and between them we can go from gray, white, black depending on reference. So greenery is easily switchable. Lighting is easily switchable in some cases, the types of flowers and the arrangement of the flowers are quite switchable. Take a look at this image. For example, even a small balcony couldn't be a great addition to your living space or, or to the real estate property that you have. By simply transforming this small balcony into a garden. They could look at the flowers that get rather you got YT get overhanging bushes and plants. All of these things get transformed, this dulled balcony into a natural experience. Feel free to switch all of these elements. You can change the colors of the flowers, it can change the types of the plants. You could add a bit of lighting, either dangling from the sides of the balcony or as an overhang lighting to help you shed some focus on the natural elements of these balconies. So the key take from this current part of the course at this current point in time is just simply to use plants and flowers and tried to experiment. This is a very powerful tool which is often overlooked in addition to furniture. Furniture, flowers, and greenery. These are two powerful combinations in addition to light. Now the lighting design, like we've mentioned, we're going to be keeping it for a separate course. Try to utilize these two powerful techniques for the time being and apply them within your own day-to-day life and see how they can transform the space is whether indoors or outdoors. 37. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #4: One of my favorite tools or strategies to transform any space that I've personally experienced, the power of transforming adult space, a regular space, through manipulation of light. Like we've mentioned, we're going to be having a dedicated course on lighting design includes, including calculations. How can you conduct lighting design calculation? So stay tuned for that. But for the current time behind, add lighting to the outdoor spaces to help you create different vibes. Whether you'd like something to provide a cozy vibe, a vibrant vibe, an act of vibe. You could add string lights, which are just simply strings made up of lighting. Lanterns. You can just simply hang those lanterns, are placed them on the ground or a fire pit, which is a great fit for outdoor spaces, which will help you create a cozy ambiance. They can look at these images. For example, this outdoor space is made up of greenery and just simply tiles and staircases. Nothing fancy, but you do have a fire pit over there and you do have all of these lightings which help you experience a great vibe from this current space. You can notice that it's something luxurious, even though it's quite simple. It's just simply greenery. But the integration of lighting can help transform the visual aspect. And in a powerful way, they can look at this current image. For example, the ceiling lights. The suspended ceiling lights covered by a basket, helps create a focused channel of light such that the entire surrounding space might be dull or dark. But the visual sitting on this current seating arrangement, we're going to experience the presence of the ambient soft light. It's a cozy environment that's a comfortable seating simply by adding the element of light 38. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #5: When you have an outdoor space, your main goal is to have a focus or a main usage for that specific space. It should be clear at the moment you step into that space. This is a cooking area or this is an outdoor kitchen or this is seating area or does is a barbeque area, or just simply this is a gathering area. All of these elements should be taken into consideration. You don't want to have an outdoor space which provides mixed signals as the something for the kids, or is this something for hanging out or is this something for gardening? All of these things, they tend to influence the experience that you have within the space. So mixture that the purpose is clear. Is it entertainment, relaxation, dining? Make sure to define the space by arranging the furniture properly. Again, organization is key. Makes sure that the accessories that you use help supplement the purpose of that space. If you have a cooking area, for example, barbeque gathering for the family. But to be suitable to have an oven weather, a classical fire stove or electrical oven, have an island for the cutting and preparation of the food. Or if this area is mainly for entertainment, it's important to have TV, for example, or adding some elements of lighting such as a fire pit or fireplace, having a coffee table with some accessories that you could help to supplement the experience. Whether a couple of books, whether a vase or a part of flowers to help the occupants enjoy the presence and the gathering within that space, you could have just simply a bowl filled with cookies, for example. Yes, to provide the message that this space is designated for relaxation or the space is designated for entertainment. The whole point is, define the space. If you have an outdoor space, ask yourself, what is the purpose? What am I, what am I going to use the space for? Or what do I want my guests to experience or the potential buyer of that space to experience whenever the transition from indoors to outdoors as a sense of entertainment, sense of essay, dining and cooking and family-oriented image. Or you need to have a sports-related, you've got trampolines, you got a swimming pool, and you get a basketball area. So define the purpose. Pick the furniture for that specific purpose, and the accessories to complement that purpose. By defining that space, you are reducing the chances of it confused buyer or a confused guest. Clarity and focus. These are essential when you are designing and outdoor space 39. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #6: Spaces with a view, 90% of your job is done. The only ten per cent that you need to do as orient everything in terms of the furniture that arrangement, the accessories. To highlight the view. You've got a great scenery over here. You could just simply use the frames to help you create the wooden frames over here to help you create an abstract image of nature. It's already there by just simply adding these wooden beams. It helps you create a reframe such that when you're sitting and your dining and you're taking a look at confines your vision to a frame like or portrait experience by highlighting the view or by amplifying the view, you are able to take a regular space and transform it to a delightful experience by considering this image again, imagine you have nothing at the back. There is no view. It looks just simply stale and down, you've got a dining area, you got a barbecue pit, and that's it, right? Nothing fancy, nothing which pumps. But the simple fact, while not that simple, Having such powerful view, complementing the outdoor space helps transform and multiply the impact of such a space by thousand times. Take a look at this simple example. Two chairs, coffee cherries, a small table with a smoke pot in the middle with flowers surrounded by greenery is right. Just the fact that you have used the presence of those green, orange and have added two chairs and a table in the middle. Accordion suspension, which is the wooden frames in this case. To help you create a sense of an isolated space, slightly isolated from nature, but being part of nature. By just taking a look at this, you couldn't have one of the greatest cups of coffee in the afternoon, right? Simply being there. So if you have a view, if you've got a natural view or if you have something which stands out within the space highlighted. If you have a fireplace oriented the furniture towards the fireplace, you got greenery, you get a scenery. You are sitting on a mountain top, for example, and you got a view of the sea. Everything should be focused towards that view. The furniture arrangement, the accessories that you pick, this should complement the presence within that space. 40. Home Staging , Interior Design , Home Decoration & Improvement : Outdoor Tip #7: And no one said accessories are bound to be indoors. You could add pillows, rugs, carpets, vases wherever you please. If it applies indoors, you can just simply spice things up and throw it outdoors and see the impact. Take a look at the pillows and blankets over here. Take a look at the carpets under the coffee table. They can look at the vase with flowers and the fruit basket, all of these things, even though usually we see them indoors, but moving them outdoors helps create a wonderful experience that you wouldn't be surprised how easy it is to transform such a space, an outdoor space, by simply moving accessories are adding accessories to that space. 41. Well Done!: Well done on the successful completion of the current course, I truly hope that you found it helpful. I moved the course, add at least 1% to your knowledge base. That's a job well done and the course is quite successful in our eyes, are truly hope that you've found the benefit they'd been looking for in this current course and we're looking forward to your feedback and having you as part of our community and upcoming courses, now stay tuned for more examples. And this current course that will surely help you reinforce what you have learned and re-apply what you have learned such that your information are as fresh and you're able to apply it comfortably and easily. Stay tuned and we'll see you in the upcoming course release.