Staging to Sell

Before you list your house for sale, consider a surefire way to sell your house: careful home staging. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and better offers. If you want to sell your home quickly, go for a well-planned home staging strategy.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging concentrates energy on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while highlighting the details of your home with thoughtfully placed furnishings and photos so that your home looks more open and buyers can picture their lives in your home.

Preparing your property to sell shouldn't be thought of as a nerve-racking experience. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll work to get a premium bid for your property. Below are a few home staging tricks to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the outside of your home, or your curb appeal. Look at the exterior of your home from a street view. What jumps out at you? What positive features seem waiting to be noticed?Acknowledging this helps us to choose what steps we can take to draw buyers from the street and into your home. If your home isn't attractive on the outside with retouched paint and bright greenery it's time to get those things done. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and increase your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your house seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Walking-through your house with a buyer's eye, I'll recommend arrangements that build up sales appeal. I'll suggest that you get rid of things that give the illusion of clutter. Surface areas like tables, desks and counters should be neatly arranged. Brick-a-brack, souvenirs, family photos, and play time artwork should get moved out of sight. I can help you de-clutter your house. Ugly or cluttered areas make your home look less spacious and buyers have a more difficult time seeing themselves living there.

Every room gets a once-over. Changes that directly affect your sale price include easy-to-fix items like furniture pieces that should be rearranged, rooms that need fresh paint, carpet that needs to be steamed, fixtures that need shining, and windows that need washing

I'll ensure your home is appealing and that it's welcoming, staying away from "offensive" or "personalized" shades on the walls and furniture. And if you've already moved out, you can think about temporary furniture. You want your house to look homey as opposed to barren.

Setting the Stage

You'll know when to host an Open House, because all of the improvements mesh together to paint a picture of what buyers can envision when they consider buying your house. Brightening up each room is of major importance, so we'll do things like part the curtains and reduce shadows where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests look at your home and ensure a pleasing aroma circulates from every room. We'll include cozy-looking blankets, and pillows on your chairs and bedding. We want buyers to feel like your current home has the potential to be.