{"id":785,"date":"2014-09-20T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-09-20T16:28:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:28:56","slug":"give-every-room-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Give Every Room a Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/house-info2.png\" alt=\"house info2\" width=\"108\" height=\"85\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\"><\/a><br \/>\nExperts: Give Every Room a Purpose<br \/>\nAssociated Press (09\/14\/14) Cook, Kim<\/p>\n<p>Staging is important when it comes to putting a home up for sale, and even unused space should be decorated in an inviting way. Many homeowners have one room in the house that does not really have a job, but rooms that feel inhabited and clearly state their function enable buyers to see themselves living in the house. &#8220;The purpose of home staging is to draw the buyers into the house emotionally so they say, &#8216;Wow, we want to live here!'&#8221; says Melinda Bartling, a real estate agent and home stager in Overland Park, Kan. Buyers will question why a space looks that way and wonder what is wrong with it. Stagers should consider transforming a small room into a large closet or dressing room, or converting a bedroom into a creative workspace such as an art studio. Depending on the market, turning a bedroom into a home office also may pay off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wra.org\/i\/l\/486353570\" title=\"Give Every Room a Purpose\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View Original Story<\/strong><em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts: Give Every Room a Purpose Associated Press (09\/14\/14) Cook, Kim Staging is important when it comes to putting a home up for sale, and even unused space should be decorated in an inviting way. Many homeowners have one room &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/?p=785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeowners","category-housing-market","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettysanders.net\/wordpress_bsanders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}