Home Staging Tips

Prior to placing your residence on the market, consider the best way to sell your house: professional home staging. Some positive aspects of home staging include fewer days on the market and better offers. If your goal is to sell your house quickly, go for a well thought out home staging strategy.

Think of staging your home as creating a "style" for your home like a manager would do for a high profile politician. Just like creating a style attracts more positive publicity to a public figure, staging makes your home more attractive on the market.

Staging your home for an Open House doesn't have to be an annoying experience. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll strive for an exceptional offer for your property. Start with these home staging tips and you'll see that your home sits fewer weeks on the market :

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the exterior of your house, also called your curb appeal. Look at the exterior of your house from the view of a passerby. What jumps out at you? What wonderful features seem hidden?Acknowledging this helps us to decide what measures we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your home. If your home's exterior isn't up to par with retouched paint and bright garden plants it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and boost your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your house seem to say, "This is Your New Home" to a buyer? Walking-through your home from a buyer's view, I'll advise you of changes that build up market appeal. I'll help you reduce the effect of items that give the look of clutter. Table and counter tops should be neatly arranged. Kitschy sculptures, souvenirs, family photos, and refrigerator artwork should get stored away too. You need to "neutralize" the home so buyers can picture it as their new home.

Every area gets a once-over. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need new paint, carpet needing to be changed, fixtures that could use shining, and any other improvement that can quickly be made to positively affect the sale.

Buyers' agents know that their clients expect a residence that brings them inside. Everything that could be unsightly should get moved out so that your home will have general appeal at the open house.

Setting the Stage

During your Open House, we want to engage the buyer's senses. Dark rooms can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and create light where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music to listen to while guests enjoy your home and assure a pleasing fragrance flows throughout your house. We'll incorporate cozy-looking blankets, and place pillows on your chairs and bed. We want buyers to feel like your house is their future home.