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'Buy This House' --- To Stand Out in a Slow Market Sellers Hang Rented Paintings; Bickering Over a Wyeth Nude
By Kelly Crow

As home sales slow in many areas and more houses linger on the market, some sellers are going to greater lengths to catch the buyer's eye -- by installing splatter paintings by emerging artists, 7-foot-tall metal sculptures, even works by Calder and Dali. It's a pronounced shift in the strategy of staging, which traditionally held that the fastest way to sell homes, and get the highest price, was to give them a toned-down, hotel-style makeover. Now, rather than merely boxing up family knick-knacks, adding a new couch or repainting the bedroom in jewel tones, stagers are experimenting with a riskier approach...

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