Home Staging Tips

Careful home staging is a surefire method applied to sell a home here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and higher offers. And you should definitely consider professional home staging if you need a fast home sale.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging focuses on your home's presentation to buyers while showing off the characteristics of your home with thoughtfully placed furniture and artwork so that your home appears more spacious and buyers can imagine their lives in your home.

Preparing your property to sell shouldn't be thought of as a problem. At times, it's a thrilling and inventive task. Together, we'll strive for a high bid for your home's sale. Begin with this home staging advice and you'll notice that your house sits fewer months on the market after listing:

Curb Appeal Checklist

First, look at the outside of your house, or your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the outside of your house from the view of a passerby. What do you notice first? What would've-been-eye-catching characteristics seem waiting to be noticed?Knowing this helps us to decide what steps we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your house. If your home isn't attractive on the outside with touched up paint and bright greenery we'll need to address those as well. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and raise your house'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 critical eye, I'll advise you of fixes that improve sales appeal. I'll help you take away items that give the impression of clutter. Tabletops should be cleared off. Knickknacks, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator drawings should get moved out of sight. You need to "generalize" the house so buyers can see it as their new house.

I'll look over every room of your home. Improvements that directly impact your dollars include easy-to-fix items like furniture pieces that should get removed, rooms that need neutral paint, carpet that needs steaming, fixtures that need polishing, and windows that need washing

Buyers' agents know that their clients want to see a home that seems comfortable. Everything that could be uninviting should be removed in order for your home to have likability at every showing.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to show your house, because all of the changes come together to create a picture of what buyers can envision after they choose to buy your house. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and create light where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music playing softly and make sure a delightful fragrance circulates room-to-room. We'll add cozy-looking bedspreads, and pillows on your sofa and bed. Buyers should feel like your current home is their future home.