Most master bedrooms have too much. They tend to look like furniture stores.

You should detail your house like you'd detail your car if it were for sale. The cost of staging your home is usually less than your first price reduction!

You would detail your car if you were going to sell it. You should detail your house too.

The way you live in your home and the way you market a house are two different things. You have to think of your home as a product.

(Thrift stores) tend to do better on the East Side than the West.

[The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and bedrooms (a master suite had been carved from the old kitchen and bath), while the airy top floor housed a large living room, kitchen, dining room, studio, and loft, and it opened onto a rear deck. It was a design layer cake that wasn't all that appetizing.] When you walked in on the ground floor, you had no idea what was upstairs, ... It was two totally different houses.