Home Staging Tips

Prior to listing your house for sale, consider a proven way to sell your house: professional home staging. Some advantages to home staging include less time on the market and higher offers. If your goal is to sell your house quickly, consider a well-planned home staging strategy.

Look at staging your home as creating an "image" for your home the same way a PR firm would do for a well-known entertainer. Just like creating a style attracts the spotlight to a public figure, staging makes your real estate more attractive on the market.

Prepping your property for an Open House doesn't have to be an annoying experience. It can actually be a great time to let your creative juices flow. Together, we'll work to get a high offer for your property. Below are a few home staging pointers to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

First, look at the outside of your house, also called your curb appeal. Examine the outside of your home from the view of a passerby. What jumps out at you? What positive features seem hidden?Understanding this helps us to decide what we can do to entice buyers from the street and into your home. If your house isn't attractive on the outside with retouched paint and blooming garden plants we'll need to address those issues. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and elevate your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your home seem to say, "Hello From Your New Welcome Home" to a buyer? Touring your home from a buyer's perspective, I'll advise you of adjustments that improve sales appeal. I'll help you get rid of anything that gives the illusion of clutter. Surface areas like tables, desks and counters should be neatly arranged. Knickknacks, souvenirs, family photos, and kids' works of art should get moved out of sight. I can help you de-clutter your house. Unattractive or dirty areas make your home feel unkempt and buyers have a harder time imagining themselves calling your property "home".

I'll review each room of your home. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be rearranged, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to get changed, fixtures that need polishing, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively affect the sale.

I'll make sure your house has mass appeal and that it's comfortable, staying away from "loud" or "personalized" hues on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can think about borrowing furniture. The goal is for your home to look homey as opposed to vacated.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to open your home up to buyers, because everything comes together to create a picture of what buyers can envision after they choose to buy your house. Dark living areas can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and change light bulbs where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests enjoy your home and make sure a nice scent circulates room-to-room. We'll incorporate cozy-looking bedspreads, and place pillows on your love seat and bed. Buyers should feel like your house has the potential to be.