I Asked a Stager to Pick 4 Living-Room Finds from the Schoolhouse Home Brand (I Want Them All!)
My partner and I are talking about moving in the next few months — and in the meantime, these discussions have led me to take a good, hard look at my living room decor (and think about what I’d like my next dream home to look like as I mindlessly scroll on Zillow). There’s an economic reason for this: If indeed we will soon have people coming and looking at our home, I want it to be staged nicely so that they can see that the home is loved, while also imagining themselves in it. But there’s also a sillier reason for this — shopping online is fun, and the best part of moving is imagining how I’d transform a brand-new living space.
My current home is scattered with both present and future heirloom furniture and decorations. The present heirlooms are pieces that have stuck around in our family for generations, thanks to a good-quality build and more than a little sentimental value. The future heirlooms are the rare things I’ve splurged on that I know will last, that I’ll hand down to family members when I’m ready.
After all, these pieces always have a starting point — you can find your own to pass down! So I reached out to Ana Cvetkovic, principal of Philadelphia-based Rowhome Design, to ask her to share the decor and living-room gems at Schoolhouse, a brand I think is a great representation of heirloom pieces, that have it all: staging appeal, high-quality build, and uniqueness to last from my current home to the next.
Here were her four picks.
