What is Home Staging?
Staging is the best proven way to get the most for your home as you prepare it for sale. It sets the scene throughout the house to create immediate interest from a broad range of potential buyers. Staging is accomplished by a trained professional using furniture and accessories already found in the home to accentuate the best features of a room, while downplaying any negative aspects. Staging can also be accomplished in empty homes by renting furniture.
Staging goes beyond the basics of cleaning, decluttering and repairing. Professional home stagers are practiced in the art of preparing a home for resale. They work with the “flow” of a home to accentuate your home's best features, while using strategic design skills to conceal its weak points. Stagers also focus on the depersonalization of the space so that potential buyers can see themselves and their belongings in the new home.
A Coldwell Banker Real Estate Survey found that staged homes sold in half the amount of time for 6% above the asking price.
Why Should I Stage My Home?
The way you live in your home and the way you market it are different. Research has proven that oftentimes potential buyers are unable to see themselves living in a cluttered home with very personal items. By making these changes before that irreversible first impression, buyers will be able to see the home's potential first-hand. Plus, you'll sell your home for more.“Staging speeds up sales in a sluggish market, and can bump up prices 2% to 10% in a moderate market.” (Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2003)
How Do I Stage My Home?
Sometimes it's hard to take an objective look at the home you have been living in for the last five, ten or even fifteen years. Styled To Sell is here to help. We offer two levels of service to our clients: Consulting and Staging. Both services are positive options for the home owner initially placing their home for sale, or for those who are dissatisfied with the progress of their home selling efforts.
Benefits of staging your home
- It's simple — You get immediate solutions for preparing your home for sale.
- It's fast — A staging typically takes one day to complete.
- It's affordable — Staged homes sell faster and draw out the best possible price.
According to HomeGain.com, only a complete electrical overhaul yields a higher return on investment. Staged homes have an accepted offer within 30 days of listing.
Testimonials
What clients have to say:
“The room looks much better!! You even made our tired, old stuff look good. I am amazed at what you can do! You managed to not only make the space better, but bigger as well!”
“I couldn't believe the transformation! You have done things to the rooms that I didn't even imagine”