# Home Staging

## General Info
- **Year Published**: 2023
- **BGG Rating**: 7.1
- **BGG Rank**: #6821
- **Players**: 2-6 (Best with: 2)
- **Duration**: 30 min
- **Weight**: 2.00 / 5
- **Designers**: Steffen Hacker
- **Artists**: Clément Masson, Ekaterina Danilyuk
- **Publishers**: frechverlag, Blue Orange (EU), Blue Orange Games, CMON Global Limited, GateOnGames, Korea Boardgames
- **Categories**: Puzzle
- **Mechanics**: Drawing, Grid Coverage, Paper-and-Pencil, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Square Grid

## Verdict
Home Staging is a charming spatial puzzle that will delight anyone who loves optimizing space and solving logic challenges. The experience of drawing your own floor plan while trying to fit furniture is both satisfying and addictive. With 25 scenarios, it offers an excellent learning curve that keeps everyone engaged match after match. It is the ideal game for those looking for something quick, smart, and table-friendly.Very satisfying spatial puzzleWell-planned difficulty curveScales well up to 6 playersFast and dynamic matchesRequires high spatial awarenessCan frustrate those who hate drawing errorsRECOMMENDED

## Description
Have you ever thought about being an interior designer, but without the stress of dealing with indecisive clients or delayed furniture deliveries? In Home Staging, you and your friends compete to see who can furnish a floor plan as efficiently as possible. The game follows a 'paper-and-pencil' style, where each player has their own sheet with empty rooms that need to be filled with furniture pieces that appear as cards are revealed.

The real hook here is the spatial puzzle. When a card is flipped, you choose one of the furniture shapes shown on the back and must draw it onto your floor plan. But it's not just about scribbling away! You need to ensure that each piece of furniture has access to the room's door and that there's enough space left for hallways and walls. There's a catch: furniture shapes come with empty fields that must be adjacent to them, forcing you to overlap these empty spots efficiently so you don't waste precious floor space. It's the kind of game that seems simple at first, but will leave you scratching your head trying to fit that sofa or bookshelf into the tiny corner left over.

The game comes with a scenario booklet featuring 25 different challenges, organized into small campaigns. This is great because the difficulty ramps up gradually, keeping your interest high. Since the game scales well from 2 to 6 players, it works just as well for a quick session as a duo or for a fuller game night. The playtime is very straightforward, around 30 minutes, making it perfect to serve as that smart 'filler' or to play several rounds in a row trying to beat your own high score. If you enjoy spatial optimization games, logic puzzles, or simply have an inner organizer who loves a good game of Tetris, Home Staging will win you over. It's a fun mental exercise that requires planning but doesn't clutter the table, as all you need is your sheet, a pencil, and some spatial awareness. Get your eraser ready and come decorate these rooms!

## FAQ
### How long does a game last?
On average, 30 minutes, which makes it perfect for playing multiple rounds or as a filler between heavier games.

### How many players can join?
The game accommodates 2 to 6 players, keeping the fun and challenge consistent in any configuration.

### Is it hard to learn?
Not at all! The weight is 2/5, meaning the rules are simple and accessible, but the strategic challenge of fitting the furniture is what makes it engaging.

### What's in the box?
The game is focused on the 'paper-and-pencil' style, so you'll find the floor plan pad, furniture cards, and the scenario booklet.

### Do I need to be good at drawing?
Not at all! You only need to draw simple shapes (like rectangles and squares). The focus is on planning and logic, not art.

### Does it have high replayability?
With 25 scenarios divided into campaigns and varying difficulty levels, you'll have plenty of content to explore for quite a while.