{"id":419,"date":"2011-03-27T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=419"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:51:40","slug":"is-staging-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Is staging worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of this Burnaby home thinks so. She hired a staging company to rearrange things and add some accessories and touches, then brought me in to document the result. The home has been on the market for a week or so, and the realtor says it is getting a lot more attention than others in the neighbourhood. The owner feels that if the house sells faster, or at a premium, then it&#8217;s worth the small amount that she invested in staging and photography. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1514.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1514\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1514.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1514-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1524.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1524.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1524\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1524.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1524-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1534_35_36_37_40_fused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1534_35_36_37_40_fused.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1534_35_36_37_40_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1534_35_36_37_40_fused.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1534_35_36_37_40_fused-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1570_1_2_3_fused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1570_1_2_3_fused.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1570_1_2_3_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1570_1_2_3_fused.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1570_1_2_3_fused-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1575.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1575.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1575\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1575.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1575-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1605.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1605\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1605.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1605-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1606.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1606\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1606.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1606-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1609.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1609\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1609.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_1609-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of this Burnaby home thinks so. She hired a staging company to rearrange things and add some accessories and touches, then brought me in to document the result. The home has been on the market for a week or so, and the realtor says it is getting a lot more attention than others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}