Spend Less Time on the Market With an Open House and Home Staging Techniques

Before you list your home for sale, consider the best way to sell your house: expert home staging. Some advantages to home staging include less time on the market and higher offers. And you should certainly think about professional home staging if you need a fast home sale.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for an Open House. Staging focuses on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while highlighting the characteristics of your home with strategically placed furnishings and pictures so that your home feels more open and buyers can envision their lives in your home.

Prepping your house to sell shouldn't be thought of as a problem. Instead it can be a fun and creative project. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar bid for your house. Begin with these home staging tips and you'll see that your house spends fewer months on the market after listing:

Curb Appeal Checklist

First, look at the exterior of your house, also called your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the exterior of your house from a quick glance from the street. What jumps out at you? What awesome characteristics seem waiting to be noticed?Knowing this assists us in deciding what plan of action we can use to entice buyers from the street and into your house. If your home isn't the best it can look on the outside with touched up paint and bright garden plants it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and elevate your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your house seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Walking-through your home with a critical eye, I'll advise you of arrangements that enhance sales appeal. I'll tell you get rid of pieces that give the look of clutter. Table and counter tops should be free and clear. Kitschy sculptures, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator works of art should get moved out of sight. I can help you de-clutter your house. Unattractive or dirty spaces make your home feel unkempt and buyers have a more difficult time seeing themselves calling your property "home".

I know exactly where a room's best features are and how to show them off. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to get changed, fixtures that could use polishing, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively influence the sale.

Buyers want to see a property that draws them in with charm. Everything that could be too personal should be put away in order for your house to impress buyers while on the market.

Setting the Stage

You'll know when to host an Open House, because all of the changes come together to paint a picture of what buyers will expect after they close on your house. Brightening up each room is of major importance, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and add lighting where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music playing lightly and make sure a pleasing scent circulates throughout your home. We'll add cozy-looking bedspreads, and throw pillows on your love seat and bed. Buyers should feel like your current home is their future home.