Staging your home to make an excellent first impression is a very good idea especially if you want to sell your home quickly. By staging your home you can work to organize your space to make it more desirable as well as accent all of the positive aspects of your home.
In this article we will discuss some ways that you can work to stage your home so that it can be more desirable for potential buyers. Staging has become ever important as many real estate agents and sellers will employ this strategy to help win over picky buyers.
Making your home more inviting
Your real estate agent will be able to tell you some ways that you can make your home more inviting. Making your house look lived in as well as comfortable and quaint is very important. This may require a new coat of paint, some candles or even fresh flowers. Ultimately you can take on a few touches to make your home seem inviting and allow buyers to picture themselves living in your home, but a professional stager will have a much better eye for accenting the positive traits of your home.
Professional home stagers
Professionals will visit your home and evaluate the environment as well as all of the best traits inside of your home. From here they can work to accent all of these traits and make changes inside your home to help it have the best possible curb appeal.
A home staging company can work to redecorate your home, hire a painting company to paint your home in a more neutral setting, rent furniture and fixtures to change the look of your living spaces as well as advise you on where to remove clutter and reorganize your storage. Home staging company may also work to help you paint areas of your home as well as recommend rooms within your home that need reorganization or rearranging. Removing large bulky furniture items as well as rearranging rooms can work to make your home look much larger.
Home staging experts can also help you to stage every aspect of your home including the lighting, music that might play during a home showing or even adding air fresheners or flowers during a showing to have a soothing odor in your home that is sure to impress any potential buyers.
The true cost of home staging
Home staging in a professional sense may not be something that is affordable for each and every home seller. Depending on the size of your home a professional home stager may ask for several thousand dollars to assess your home and stage it. It is however important to mention that on average with home staging sellers have reported that the final closing price of their home is around 10% more than what they had anticipated. Staged homes also regularly sell in half the time that an un-staged home would.
If you are interested in staging your home by yourself it’s very important to research some home improvements that are inexpensive and will translate into a better value for your home. There are a number of staging improvements in home improvements they can simply allow you to lose money on remodeling your home.