This is the first installment in a series for people who would like to stage their homes for their own enjoyment rather than to put them on the market (though if you want to put it on the market, definitely call me!) This first post is a little long, future posts will be shorter. We will use a number of tricks and tools to get our homes staged and will be working bit by bit in manageable pieces. I will post weekly so that we have the weekend to complete or plan for each week’s task. This week is easy. Before we start doing all the things that will need to be done to make our homes show ready, we need to understand what we’re working with While I understand that oftentimes we develop deep emotional attachments to the spaces where we have built significant portions of our lives. The toughest task we will face this week is to turn those emotions off. The first task this week is to create a place for information. It could be a three-ring binder, a file folder, or a small file that has a