Staging a Home for Sale 10 Easy Ideas You CAN Use- Part I
Staging a home for sale means just thatsetting the stage so that your home may sell faster and often times closer to the listing price than if it were not staged.
Staging allows the home to be presented as a canvas and allow the buyer to paint a picture for them; visualizing what the space will look like if they moved in with their items. But that does not mean showing an empty home; rather staging accentuates spaces within the home by creating vignettes, which enhance positive space while downplaying negative areas within the house.
You could hire a professional stager for about $400 for a consultation and then shell out another $100 per hour for the stager to do the packing and the redecorating, OR you can do it yourself, keep the savings and put it into staging the home if you do-it-yourself.
In order to create the staging scene, understand that for the next 30-90 days, while the house is for sale, you will need to have removed personal items, collections and clutter, (and keep them gone until you have a signed contract). Your home may lose its personal style and warmth, but that will be...