How To Stage Your Home for an Open House

Before you put your house on the market, consider a proven way to sell your house: professional home staging. Some advantages to home staging include fewer days on the market and better offers. And you should certainly try 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 showing off the characteristics of your home with strategically placed furniture and artwork so that your home looks more open and buyers can envision living in your home.

Making ready your house to sell shouldn't be thought of as a problem. It can turn into a fun and inventive activity. Together, we'll work to get a high offer for your home. Use these home staging tips to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Start with the exterior of your home, also called your curb appeal. Inspect the exterior of your house from a quick glance from the street. What do you notice first? What great characteristics seem to fade into the background?Understanding this helps us to decide what steps we can take to entice buyers from the street and into your home. If your house isn't the best it can look on the outside with retouched paint and colorful garden plants 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 New Home" to a buyer? Looking through your property with a buyer's eye, I'll suggest adjustments that enhance market appeal. I'll advise you eliminate pieces that give the impression of clutter. Table and counter tops should be free and clear. Knickknacks, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator works of art should get stored away too. You need to "generalize" the house so buyers can perceive it as their new home.

I'll review every room of your home. Changes that directly affect your dollars include fixable like pieces of furniture that should be rearranged, rooms that need new paint, carpet that needs changing, fixtures that need polishing, and windows that need washing

Buyers' agents know that their clients want to see a property that brings them inside. Everything that could be too personal should be put away so that your home will have general appeal at the open house.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to show your home, because all of the changes come together to paint a picture of what buyers can look forward to when they consider buying your house. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and reduce shadows where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music playing softly and assure a pleasant fragrance flows from every room. We'll incorporate cozy-looking throws, and throw pillows on your sofa and bedding. Buyers should feel like your house is their future home.