Decorating with Neutral Colors

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Many people feel that decorating with neutral colors is only for selling homes or for people who are color blind! It is most certainly a prerequisite for selling a home but it is not necessarily only for people with no interest in color. I am not sure if anyone else noticed but the sets and homes designed for magazines today clearly lean towards neutral decor. When Home Staging first became popular and homeowners selling homes saw the transformation of their homes to a luxurious neutral palette, a new trend was born. This is interesting because normally magazines would set the trends and the readers follow. This time around the population experienced a trend that they liked and the magazines catered to their changing taste.
 
My interest in decorating homes started roughly 25 years ago and I was always a huge fan of layering different textures and prints in, you guessed it, neutral colors! It was difficult to convince clients that a neutral palette will stand the test of time better and bring subtle but continuous beauty in to their lives. By the time Home Staging was formed as a mainstream Real Estate marketing tool, I was only too happy to bring my lifelong interest in decorating with neutral colors to homes on the market. It is greatly satisfying to see my favorite decorating style finally getting the recognition it deserves. See more posts

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