Now you can learn how to properly arrange the furniture and accessories for any room (whether you're staging a property or doing a redesign)! One of the best ways to learn is by studying the work of others and comparing their before and after pictures. But while you can find before and after pictures on the web, they usually don't come with any kind of professional critique - so you can't tell whether the work is good, mediocre or poor from an expert's point of view. This hampers learning as you are left to yourself to figure things out. You could wind up thinking a staging project was great, when in reality it was ho-hum or had fatal flaws. The same could be true of a redesigned room. You could think the re-designer did an amazing job, when in actuality there were minor to major mistakes or better ways to have rearranged the room which you are not privy to know.

You see there are some specific professional rules one should adhere to as much as possible for a successful outcome. If you don't know what those rules are, you're likely to make some mistakes - maybe a lot of mistakes. While some common judgment errors the professionals tend to make might be minor, they are mistakes never-the-less. So why not learn how you can avoid them? By really grounding yourself in how to properly arrange furniture and accessories, you'll be able to tackle the toughest rooms with clarity, confidence and success. And once you having this training under your belt, you'll use it over and over and over again for the rest of your life.

After teaching the art of arranging furniture and accessories to thousands of students across the globe, some very definite patterns of mis-judgments have surfaced which I thought I'd discuss here briefly and offer a suggestion for a practical solution. I became so convinced of this method, I wrote another book on the subject.

Here are the some of the most often repeated mistakes made by both stagers, redesigners and consumers:

• The art is hung too high. Sometimes I go into homes where it looks like the dweller must stand 8 feet tall because the bulk of the art has been hung up near the ceiling. Instead the art needs to be hung in close proximity to the furniture below it. One just must not cut the wall in half (horizontally speaking) and hang the art in the middle. Invariably this draws the eye to the ceiling or it draws the eye to a large gap between the base of the art and the top of the furniture.
• The art is spaced out to fill the entire wall. When art is hung with wide gaps between, in an attempt to fill the wall from end to end, the final outcome is guaranteed to look cluttered, lacking in focus and very unappealing. While someone might not be able to vocalize it, they will inherently know that a deliberate attempt was made to fill up the wall when there wasn't enough available to properly do so.
• The arranger couldn't decide where the focal point was. This problem is common when there is a natural focal point in the room (such as a fireplace) but there is also a TV in the room. Invariably the seating is placed to watch TV and sometimes completely ignores the fact that there is a natural focal point in the room that shouldn't be ignored.
• The heights of furniture pieces jump from the high of an armoire to the low of a small chest. When this happens (or something like it), it is jolting to the eye and looks like the chest fell off the top of the armoire. It creates a "cliff-like effect" in the room which is very unfortunate and completely avoidable.
• The colors on the walls are too strong. Walls are meant to be background visuals in a room. When the wall colors are too strong or overly busy, the walls move into the foreground and dominate the room and everything in it. Walls should remain in the background visually and support what's in the room, not take over the room.

Best Selling Author Barbara Jennings Now Reveals Common Mistakes Made by Students and Professionals and How to Avoid Those Blunders , Omissions and Errors in Your Work!

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