How To Stage Your Home for an Open House

Prior to placing your home on the market, consider a proven way to sell your house: expert home staging. Home staging benefits include less time on the market and higher selling prices. And you should certainly decide on professional home staging if you need a quick home sale.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging focuses on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while highlighting the features of your home with strategically placed furnishings and pictures so that your home feels more open and buyers can picture their lives in your home.

Preparing your home to sell doesn't have to be a problem. Instead it can be an eye-opening and inventive project. Together, we'll strive for a high offer for your property. Below are a few home staging tips to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Start with the outside of your house, or your curb appeal. Inspect the outside of your house from a street view. What jumps out at you? What great features seem waiting to be noticed?Acknowledging this helps us to choose what steps we can take to entice buyers from the street and into your home. If your home isn't the best it can look on the outside with touched up paint and colorful garden plants we'll need to tackle those issues. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and raise your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Could a buyer see themselves hanging out in your living area, reading a good book in your reading nook or getting work done in your home office? I want your home to welcome buyers and offer them a sense of easy living. I'll help you achieve this by recommending changes that highlight your home's features. I'll suggest that you put out of sight anything that gives the appearance of clutter. Surface areas like tables, desks and counters should be free and clear. Arts and crafts, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator artwork should get stored away too. I can help you simplify the decor of house. Ugly or cluttered places make your home feel less spacious and buyers have a more difficult time seeing themselves calling your property "home".

Every room gets a once-over. Enhancements that directly impact your dollars include easy-to-fix items like pieces of furniture that should get removed, rooms that need new paint, carpet that needs changing, fixtures that need polishing, and windows that need cleaning.

I'll make sure your home is neutral and that it's comfortable, avoiding "offensive" or "personalized" colors on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can think about temporary furniture. The goal is for your house to look ready to live in as opposed to cold and deserted.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to open your home up to buyers, because everything comes together to paint a picture of what buyers will expect after they choose to buy your house. Dark living areas 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 to listen to while guests take a walk-through of your home and ensure a pleasing scent flows from every area. We'll include cozy-looking blankets, and throw pillows on your couch and bedding. Buyers should feel like your home has the potential to be.