Should you “stage” your home? What is Home Staging? Your home is comfortable and you live in it, if people don’t like your style too bad! We have all had these thoughts when selling our homes.
Many years ago, before I got into real estate, my husband and I were selling our home. The agent gave us a book called Dress Your House for Success. I scoured through the book and did everything it said to do. The agent ever so gently suggested that the shower curtain in the guest bath might not be to everyone’s taste. How dare he? Didn’t he understand that I coveted that fabric for weeks and that I paid $30 per yard for it? Finally, one day I dragged it outside and “tea stained” it; toning it down just a little from the bright white, cornflower blue, and red. If only I had known about home staging it might not have taken almost two years to sell that house.
Home staging is the process of showcasing a home to reach the attention of the majority of home buyers. The home stager has learned the tricks of the trade to “ac-cent-u-ate the positive, e-lem-i-nate the negative” features of the home. It allows people to imagine themselves living in the home. It has nothing to do with you personally or with your sense of comfort and style. It is all about creating the scene, if you will, of them living out their perfect life in their new perfect home.
As Tammy Harrison has said many times, “When selling your home, it is extremely important that it look its very best, inside and out. This is the key to creating a lasting impression and ensuring that buyers offer you the highest price possible for your home. That is why homeowners and Realtors us the experienced staging experts”. Home Stagers off a wide array of interior staging and redesign services to help you lock in profits when you sell. Don’t sell your home or condo for less than it is worth.
Not selling your home or condo? Look into having a stager “redesign” it for you. We get so used to our things and our environment that we tend to not notice that a rug has seen better days, a lamp would look better on the other table, or that a different window treatment would really brighten up a dreary room. Consider treating yourself to a room redesign often using items you already have in your home!
Check with us today. We can put you in touch with some fantastic Home Stagers and Redesigners that can help YOU!
Bay to Beach and All Points In Between 