Botanical Arranging class at Pottery Barn

These Pottery Barn decorating classes aren’t marketed as classes for home-sellers, but I like to announce them on my blog because I think they can serve sellers greatly.

Coming up on Sunday, May 4th, a class called “The Art of Botanical Arranging” will be offered at the Trolley Square Pottery Barn. The hosts will present on how to artfully display flower arrangements and faux flowers.

A home-seller might want to attend this class for the simple reason that superior staging and decorating sells homes quicker. Sometimes you just don’t have much to work with when staging your home, so you need focal points that stand out and attract attention. Your home may be spotless, but it helps to go above and beyond clean – and a well-designed flower arrangement in the kitchen or the main entrance will add life to the home. Faux flowers might work best for home-staging so that you don’t have to keep replacing flowers as they die. Just be sure to buy nice looking faux flowers.

Again, the class will be at the Trolley Square Pottery Barn, located at 552 South 602 East. Call 801-322-4050 for exact times.

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Pottery Barn at Trolley Square hosts a complimentary class on upholstered furniture

A while back, I wrote about how Pottery Barn offered a good example of how to stage your home. I was impressed by the catalog I had received in the mail – whoever stages the rooms for their catalog shots does a fantastic job.

It turns out that Pottery Barn acutally does offer lessons in staging, more or less. Not a true real estate staging class, but random classes about how to make your home better. I just spoke to a Pottery Barn employee on the phone about these classes, and she said they are offered about once a month.

This Sunday, they will offer a complimentary class on how to select and care for upholstered furniture. I’ve never been to one of their classes, so I can’t give my stamp of approval, but I’m willing to bet that it will be good. It will be held at the Trolley Square Pottery Barn, which is located at 552 South 602 East in Salt Lake City. I think she said that it starts at 10am, but I was kind of distracted when she said that, so I would call to be sure. Their number is 801-322-4050.

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Pottery Barn offers a lesson in staging

Yesterday I received a Pottery Barn catalog in the mail, and after looking through it, I couldn’t help but think that homes would do much better on the market if everyone staged their homes like that.

I’m not referring to the pieces of furniture in the catalog, because few people would spend that much money to stage their home, but rather the design. Everything is so neat and clean in the catalog. Even in rooms with lots of books or other little things, they organize them in such a way that it looks extremely orderly.

I’m thinking that it would be a good idea to take some pages of the catalog to a seller who might not understand the importance of staging. I might ask them if they were a buyer, would they be more inclined to buy a home that is staged like this one in the catalog. I don’t know if anybody out there had tried this, but I think it’s worth a shot.

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