Home Staging Tips

Before you list your real estate for sale, consider the best way to sell your house: expert home staging. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and higher bids. If you want to sell your house quickly, consider a well-planned home staging strategy.

Think of staging your home as creating an "image" for your home similar to what a manager would do for a popular entertainer. Just like creating an image garners more positive publicity to a public figure, staging makes your home a more desirable listing on the market.

Prepping your property to sell shouldn't be thought of as an annoying experience. At times, it's an eye-opening and creative task. Together, we'll strive for a high bid for your home. Begin with this home staging advice and you'll see that your home spends fewer days on the market after listing:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Start with the outside of your house, better known as your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the exterior of your house from a quick glance from the street. What do you notice first? What dollar-earning characteristics seem waiting to be noticed?Knowing this helps us to choose what we can do to draw buyers from the street and into your home. If your home's exterior isn't as neat as possible with retouched paint and blooming garden plants it's time to get those things done. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and boost your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your house seem to say, "Hello From Your New Welcome Home" to a buyer? Touring your house with a buyer's eye, I'll recommend changes that improve market appeal. I'll tell you put in storage anything that gives the appearance of clutter. Counter tops should be cleared off. Knickknacks, souvenirs, family photos, and refrigerator works of art should get moved out of sight. You need to give mass appeal to the home so buyers can see it as their new home.

I'll look over each room of your home. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, 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 influence the sale.

With me by your side, you'll know that your home has mass appeal and that it's welcoming, steering clear of "offensive" or "can't-work-with" hues on the walls and furniture. And if you've already moved out, you can try temporary furniture. You want your home to look lived in as opposed to empty.

Setting the Stage

At every showing, we want to capture buyers' attention. Brightening up each room is critical, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and add lighting where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests take a walk-through of your home and assure a pleasing scent flows throughout your home. We'll include cozy-looking bedspreads, and throw pillows on your love seat and bedding. We want buyers to feel like your home has the potential to be.