Home Staging Tips

Careful home staging is a surefire strategy used to sell a home here in Healdsburg. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and more offers. And you should definitely decide on 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 while showing off the details of your home with thoughtfully placed furnishings and photos so that your home appears more spacious and buyers can envision living in your home.

Preparing your house for an Open House doesn't have to be a problem. At times, it's a fun and creative activity. Together, we'll strive for an exceptional bid for your home's sale. Use these home staging tips to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the exterior of your home, better known as your curb appeal. Inspect the exterior of your home from a street perspective. What jumps out at you? What unique characteristics seem hidden?Knowing this helps us to choose what plan of action we can use to draw buyers from the street and into your home. If your home's exterior isn't inviting with refreshed paint and blooming garden plants it's time to get those things done. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and elevate your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Could a buyer picture themselves hanging out in your living area, reading a good book in your master bedroom or inviting family and friends over for a dinner in your eat-in kitchen? I want your house to welcome buyers and give them a sense of comfort. I'll help you achieve this by recommending small improvements that highlight your home's features. I'll suggest that you reduce the effect of anything that gives the impression of clutter. Table and counter tops should be cleared off. Arts and crafts, souvenirs, family photos, and kids' drawings should get stored away too. You need to "de-personalize" the house so buyers can see it as their new home.

I know exactly where a room's best features are and how to show them off. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to be changed, fixtures that need brightening, and any other improvement that can quickly be made to positively impact the sale.

Buyers' agents know that their clients like a property that seems comfortable. Personal items that could be "offensive" should be removed in order for your home to achieve mass appeal at every showing.

Setting the Stage

At every showing, we want to capture buyers' attention. Dark living areas can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like part the curtains and add lighting where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests look at your home and ensure a pleasant fragrance flows throughout your house. We'll include cozy-looking blankets, and place pillows on your love seat and bedding. Buyers should feel like your home has the potential to be.