Harry Murray
That way, buyers will form an emotional attachment with the home and make a high offer. In over 15 years in business, we've developed home staging strategies that can showcase any listing, including those with corner fireplaces. At our state-of-the-art home stager training center, The Studio, we offer a moveable fireplace.
We can place it in different positions, so our students can practice different furniture layouts – no matter where the fireplace is located. For example, the room below has a beautiful fireplace, but the real selling point is the view. Unless you have a stunning view, or another architectural feature that you want to highlight, it is likely that the corner fireplace will be the focal point of the room.
The first option is to place the sofa perpendicular to the focal point and facing the entrance to the room. This opens up the space, drawing attention to the fireplace, while still offering the most attractive view of the sofa.
If this position does not work well for the room, you can place the sofa perpendicular to the focal point but with its back to the entrance. Without professional home staging, a buyer may wonder how they would set up the room with a diagonal fireplace.
As with all things staging, anything that looks dingy and unkept will indicate to buyers that the home is overall in a state of disrepair. In some cases, you may want to suggest the homeowner add a quick coat of heat-resistant black paint to the interior of the fireplace.
Those are the basic formulas for staging a room with a diagonal fireplace, but there are a million exceptions. The best way to learn to stage diagonal fireplaces is to gain hands-on experience.
