How To Stage Your House for Sale

Careful home staging is a proven approach applied to sell a house here in Healdsburg. Some positive aspects of home staging include fewer days on the market and higher bids. And you should definitely think about professional home staging if you need a fast home sale.

Staging your home in Healdsburg is all about promoting a lifestyle. You want buyers to picture themselves calling your house "home". You want them to see your present home as their future house.

Making ready your house for an Open House doesn't have to be another hurdle in getting your house sold. Instead it can be a thrilling and creative project. Together, we'll work to get a high bid for your house. Start with this home staging advice and you'll notice that your house sits fewer months on the market :

Curb Appeal Checklist

Start with the outside of your house, also called your curb appeal. Look at the exterior of your home from the view of a passerby. What do you notice first? What dollar-earning features seem to fade into the background?Knowing this helps us to decide what we can do to entice buyers from the street and into your house. If your home's exterior isn't inviting with touched up paint and colorful garden plants we'll need to tackle those issues. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and increase your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your home seem to say, "This is Your New Home" to a buyer? Looking through your property with a critical eye, I'll suggest arrangements that enhance market appeal. I'll advise you put in storage anything that gives the illusion of clutter. Tabletops should be clutter-free. Brick-a-brack, souvenirs, family photos, and refrigerator artwork should get stored away too. You need to give mass appeal to the home so buyers can imagine it as their new house.

I'll look over every room of your home. Improvements that directly impact your dollars include easy-to-fix items like furniture pieces that should be removed, rooms that need fresh paint, carpet that needs to be replaced, fixtures that need polishing, and windows that need washing

Buyers expect a house that brings them inside. Decor that could be "offensive" should get moved out so that your home will have general appeal to buyers.

Setting the Stage

During your Open House, we're doing well if we're engaging the buyer's senses. Dark living areas can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like part the curtains and create light where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music playing lightly and make sure a delightful aroma flows from every room. We'll add cozy-looking throws, and throw pillows on your chairs and bed. Buyers should feel like your house is their future home.