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| What is Home Staging?
A common misconception is that home staging is decorating, its not. Decorating is personalizing your home to reflect your individual style and your families living habits. Staging is actually depersonalizing your home to make it more attractive to potential buyers. When staging your home you want to eliminate clutter, paint using neutral colors, and arrange furniture in a way that enhances the size and selling features of the room. You need to think of your home as a product and market it appropriately.
Many people are also under the misconception that staging is expensive and requires the purchase of new furniture and accessories to achieve noticeable results. This is also untrue. A professional stager generally works with the furniture and accessories you already have. In most cases very few items will have to be purchased to make a dramatic difference in your homes appearance.
Why Stage Your Home? Why Home staging? Because you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Less then 10% of home buyers have the ability to look past the owners decor and visualize a homes potential. The majority of buyers today begin their search for a home on the internet. If they're not impressed by what they see you’ll never get that phone call for a showing.
As owners, many times we have too much furniture in a room. This is wonderful for our own personal enjoyment, but when it comes to selling we need to thin out as much as possible to make rooms appear larger. Most home owners are incapable of staging their own home. The longer we live in our home the more difficult it becomes for us to change it. When selling your home it’s best to bring in a professional who can look at your home from a new perspective. A trained professional can help you arrange your home in a way that emphasize its positive aspects and downplays the negative ones.
Staging a home that is vacant or has empty rooms is critical. A vacant home is soulless. Adding furniture to a property brings it to life and helps a potential buyer envision themselves living in the home. Adding furniture also helps them gauge the size of a room, so adding a small amount of furniture in a tasteful manner can make a room appear much larger then it actually is.
Money in Your Pocket Statistics show that proper staging can increase a homes sale price by 5%-10% and properly staged homes spend 50% less time on the market. Examples: $250,000 house X 10% = $25,000 increase in sale price $500,000 house X 10% = $50,000 increase in sale price $1,000,000 house X 10% = $100,000 increase in sale price
Free Staging Assistance Julie is an Accredited Home Staging Professional so you know she has been trained by the best in the business. As a service to our clients we offer free home staging advice on every one of our listings. We can help you get top dollar for your home in the shortest amount of time possible. You’ve worked hard to build equity in your home and we want you to get every penny you deserve. |
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