Is your home for sale but not attracting the offers you'd like? Home staging often means the difference between a quick sale at top dollar and a home languishing on the market. The Boston Globe Magazine is offering two readers the chance to win a free staging of one troublesome room in their homes by a professional home stager. The stager will creatively use only the materials already found in your home -- and will work miracles in the process! The results will appear in the Globe Magazine's fall real estate issue on October 26, 2008.

Your home must be on the market for sale and located in Greater Boston to qualify for this contest. E-mail a note, in 300 words or less, explaining which one room in your home needs staging (living rooms, family rooms, great rooms, and dens are preferred) and a photo of this room to contest@globe.com. Include your name, address, and daytime phone number, as well as your realtor's name or if the home is for sale by owner. Entries are due at midnight EST, September 11, and will be judged on the challenge and potential of the room. Winners will be required to sign a declaration of eligibility and release. If a potential winner fails to comply with this requirement, an alternate winner may be selected, at the Globe's sole and exclusive discretion.