Whether you’re listing or staying, every home needs a touch of beauty. For sellers, having a special touch always resonates with buyers when they walk in or scroll through pictures on Realtor. For all of us, sometimes it’s the smallest touches we add within our walls that makes an uplifting difference when we need it most.

My friend, Nicole Trigg, makes these beautiful Love Language arrangements with her company Botanical Verbiage and I find them so soothing to watch on her IG stories as she trims the stems and puts the arrangements together to bring a message to its recipient.

Their beauty also got me thinking of this new construction luxury listing we have that though beautiful, needs a touch of color and personality. When you walk into a home, does it speak plenty to you or nothing at all? Buyers ask themselves this when house hunting and even family visiting you. Your home should have its own language to speak that tells guests what its energy is all about.

Doesn’t staging do this? Of course it does, but what I mean are the accent touches that come from you and help buyers, or visitors, of your home feel you and what the home means to you. Staging doesn’t have its own energy often. When you decorate, do you not look for a uniformity and simple feeling you want to feel every day when you come home? When you home shop, don’t you want the home to speak to you in some way that tells you, you found your next place for your family? Don’t you want to know it’s been a place of laughter and amazing memories? Staging is a professional touch but not touching for many. Staging alone looks like this:

Personal attention means adding special photos on the top and special attributes to the staging, such as fresh flowers from the market next to a couple of sweet photos and a memento or two. I love these from Nicole (pictured below) for that added touch because it also provides a subtle scent to greet you through the door and invite you to explore, room to room. These make you want to stay and picture yourself here:

Next to a beautiful family photo, this is perfect. It’s the positive energy you should want. Your space should be inviting but also sentimental. For buyers, purchasing their first home, or tenth, the process is always a sentimental journey for them. They buy to size up or downsize, for happy or sad reasons, so make sure your home represents a language of hope and welcome for new beginnings with happier times ahead. If a home has a stagnant and “cold” feel, anyone coming through will feel that; and for buyers, they may not stay long or consider your home as their next place to build memories. For family or friends visiting, you want anything but a boring and stale vibe for them; even if they’re not your favorite relatives!

If you look in this picture here below, you see it is obviously staged and well put together for a professional appeal and color scheme; BUT, it also has such a homey and wonderful touch with photos of the kids that are adorable and happy, and it brings such a warmth and light into the house not only visually, but emotionally. Your home, on the market or not, when decorating it should emanate the emotion and an inviting feeling that greets instantly and connects the sentiments to each room.

I would personally add a bouquet and welcome sign for buyers for open houses, but I love this beautiful staging and mix of love and happiness. I can sense the home and what it brings to those who live in it, better than I can just a decorated room that feels as no one ever laughed or loved here.

To add the right language and beauty to your room, or just a perfect final touch, visit botanicalverbiage.com and shop their selection. They are locally based here in the Palm Springs/Joshua Tree areas but ship internationally!

Happy Tuesday Friends : )

Photo credits to Pinterest and @mrstrigg on Instagram for all floral photos.