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Staging a home is serious business. And there is one man in New York City who’s mastered the formula for turning the totally drab into something divine. Plus:

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Saft estimates that he has helped to sell more than three billion dollars of real estate since he started staging homes, in 2005. Photograph by Brian Finke for The New Yorker

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Jason Saft has a dark mustache and wields a utility knife with a rainbow pattern bedazzled on o

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