Open House Alert Plus Staging!

                                                         188 East Genesee Street

                                                           Village of Skaneateles

                                                        Open Sunday, October 9th

                                                                  12:00 to 2:00

Now isn't that a lovely room?  It's large enough to accommodate a long couch and a love seat!  The windows serve as a framing device for the furniture, and who wouldn't want to lounge there and watch the world go by (as Jeannine noted.)  Across from this grouping is the wood-burning fireplace, too, plus built-in bookshelves.

Through French doors you reach the sun room.  Personally, I just want to curl up there and read a book on a sunny fall day.  The view from that gorgeous chair is the back yard which extends only to the end of the garage, but you can see the wide open area beyond from this angle.  Please - bring me a cup of tea and a crumpet!

I don't even want to show you the way the rooms looked before....there was just no visualizing how lovely it could be.  And to see more, please come to the open on Sunday.  It's special for Berkshire Hathaway.  Because this is Breast Cancer Awareness month BHHS CNY Realty will donate an amount for everyone who signs in at an open house.  I'll have the pink sheets there, and most likely a couple more special goodies... so come, please!

And yes, this home was professionally staged by Rebecca Sienkiewicz from Savvy Staging.  At the brokers' open on Tuesday I gave out at least 4 of her cards to agents who came through and loved the look. Her website is www.savvystagingsyr.com.  Homes aren't used without furniture and furnishings, so (now) I believe they shouldn't be shown that way.  I've sold them both ways, and I can think of one home in particular that showed better without furniture, but perhaps that is the exception.  I know I love going through model homes, and even while the designer's tastes may not be mine, I still like to look.  A staging like this brings a sense of use and space.  A room appears smaller without furniture, and this is especially important in bedrooms.  I was constantly asked if the master in this home would take a king, and I could say yes (it had) but I saw the dubious looks.  

I am very pleased ... and once we get an offer, I am sure the sellers will be too!