How to Stage Your Home so it will Sell Quickly and for the Best Price Possible!

When staging your home – you want to create a mood.  You want your home to have that “HOMEY Feeling” as the buyer enters the front door.  You want the home to look well cared for, clean, bright, large and open, warm.  You want the buyer visualizing themselves moving in the minute they start walking through it.  Their agent should see “BUYING signs” as soon as they show your home. 

There is a lot that must be done before you are ready to stage your home.  First you must do a thorough cleaning, de-cluttering, painting, touching up, repairing, freshening the look of each room.  Staging is what you do after you’ve done all that.  It’s all about dressing the house for sale.

It’s about the final touches and little details.  Think of it as if you’re getting ready to put your home on the runway for everyone to see it in the best fashion show.  After all, photos will be all over the internet, buyers and agents will be coming to see it.  You want every detail to look its best.  You want to shine and you want to sell quickly.  Homes usually get most activity in the first 6-8 weeks.  So get ready and show your best.
                                                           Stage it to perfection!

What is a Professional Home Stager?

Professional stagers are highly skilled artists that possess the best skills of getting the home to look just like a model home.  Stagers possess the skills of a top-level designer and they create dramatic scenery that appeals to all five senses. Here are some of their secrets:

• Arrange sparse pieces of furniture in an appealing grouping.
• Showcase a generous usage of soft fabrics and decorator pieces.
• Display unusual knickknacks in units of 1, 3 or 5.
• Drape window coverings with simple lines, display cookbooks on kitchen counters,
  arrange flowers and plants, pictures and candles.   
• Add unique elements to shelving, bookcases and fireplace mantels, which draw attention to predetermined areas.

What Accessories Does a Stager Use?

Stagers bring in a vast array of items to spruce up the house. Here is a small sampling of items professional stagers often use to dress each room. How they are utilized is limited only by the creativity and vision of the stager.

• Mirrors, Candles, Cookbooks, Stands, Games, Sexy Clothes Hangers
• Plants,  
• Silk Flowers
• Floor & Table Lamps,
• Area and Throw Rugs
• Small Love Seats
• Ottomans
• Afghans, Pillows
• Plastic Tables & Chairs
• Inflatable Queen-Size Beds
• Baskets, Book-ends, Books, Magazines, Glasses

   

Staging Your Home can make a HUGE difference if you want to sell it
quickly.

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