You would be hard pressed to not find a cookbook or two or thirty in a household…why not use them as props to stage your home to sell? As I mentioned in my last post about staging bookcases, you want to use hardcover cookbooks. Paperbacks just don’t display as well and are not able to stand up as needed. There are a lot of creative things you can do with cookbooks. Here’s an example of a model home that I designed with a Food Network dining room/kitchen theme. I used 6 cookbooks from well-known chefs from the Food Network like Rachael Ray, Ina Garten, Paula Deen, Giada De Laurentiis, Emeril Lagasse, as well as a Food Network Favorites book. We installed two inexpensive picture ledges from IKEA so that we could display the cookbooks on the wall and basically used them as art. We would have otherwise hung a piece of framed artwork or a mirror in this space. Why not do something similar with what you have in your cookbook library?
Food Network Cookbook Theme Display
Italian Cookbook Display
Cookbook on Kitchen Island Display
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I have a strange story about a cookbook I carry as a staging prop. Since my own cookbooks are in rough shape, I bought a big one with gold edged pages and nice illustrations from the local thrift store. About a year later, I met another stager with whom I work and have become good friends. A few months into our partnership, we staged a kitchen that needed the book. She asked when & where I got it. I wondered why she asked but when I told her we were both amazed because she had been the one who donated it before we ever met. A rolling pin, open the book to a picture of a pie and you can nearly taste the treats you are going to make when you live in this house!
What a small world!!! =)