Home Staging Tips

Before you list your real estate for sale, consider a surefire way to sell your house: professional home staging. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and higher bids. If you want to sell your home quickly, choose a well-planned approach to home staging.

Think of staging your home as creating a "style" for your property like a publicist would do for a high profile politician. Just like creating an image draws the spotlight to a public figure, staging makes your house a more desirable listing on the market.

Preparing your property for an Open House doesn't have to be another hurdle in getting your house sold. Instead it can be an eye-opening and inventive activity. Together, we'll strive for a premium offer for your home. So, for fewer days on the market in Santa Rosa, California, employ these house staging tips:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your only chance to create a positive impact on buyers from a street perspective. The good and bad features that jump out at buyers form their first opinion of your house and how you keep up your home's regular maintenance.Knowing this assists us in determining what steps we can take to entice buyers from the street and into your home. If your house isn't at its best on the outside with retouched paint and blooming garden plants we'll need to tackle those issues. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and elevate your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Can buyers picture themselves lounging in your living room, relaxing in your master bedroom or getting work done in your home office? I want your Open House to welcome buyers and give them a sense of contentment. I'll help you achieve this by recommending changes that highlight your home's features. I'll suggest that you eliminate pieces that give the impression of clutter. Counter tops should be free and clear. Brick-a-brack, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator drawings should get moved out of sight. You need to give mass appeal to the house so buyers can see it as their new house.

Every area gets a once-over. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to be changed, fixtures that could use shining, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively affect the sale.

Working together, we'll make sure your house has mass appeal and that it's friendly, avoiding "offensive" or "too-bright" shades on the walls and furniture. And if you've already moved out, you can consider renting furniture. You want your house to look ready to live in as opposed to bare and uninhabited.

Setting the Stage

At your Open House, we want to engage the buyer's senses. Brightening up your interior is of major importance, so we'll do things like open curtains and reduce shadows where needed to show off your home. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music playing softly and make sure a delightful scent flows room-to-room. We'll make use of cozy-looking bedspreads, and place pillows on your love seat and bedding. Buyers should feel like your home is their future home.