Staging Your Home for Sale
Getting your home ready
to sell requires more than just putting a sign in the
front yard. To you, your house is your home. But to a
potential buyer, your house is a house. They need to be
able to visualize your house as their home. Staging
helps them do this. You need to remove most, if not all,
the personal items which might not be attractive to
buyers. Family pictures, nick knacks, and door knob
collections are not necessarily what a buyer wants to
see. Here are ideas for staging your home which will
help you make your home a more attractive house.
Professional Staging
Tricks & Tips
An artist for 35 years,
Dawna Johnson, is an Accredited Staging Professional
Master (ASP) and owner of Sacramento Staging Solutions.
She says the idea behind staging is to allow rooms to
show themselves. "If your home is vacant, it's
soulless," Dawna warns. "Without staging, it will
probably remain on the market for many months." She
calls the kitchen the "heart of the home," and offers
this practical advice for making that space sparkle:
Apply orange oil to cabinets that appear dry, which will
renew their original luster
Put out large bowls of fruit such as polished apples,
bright oranges, luscious grapes
Arrange colorful and fun cookbooks on the counters
Dawna believes in bringing the outdoors inside through
the use of greenery and plants; in creating clean, crisp
spaces and arranging furniture with plenty of room to
walk around. She says bathrooms are essential to dress
well. "Bathrooms should look open, airy and delightful,"
says Dawna. One of her favorite tricks is to add baskets
filled with spa treatments such as:
Towels, tied with ribbons
Scented soaps
Creamy lotions
Moisturizing & Facial jars
The back yard needs staging, too. For patios and decks,
Dawna brings in plants and potted flowers, and adds
additional color by setting the picnic table with
bright, plastic dinner plates.
Popular Home-Staging
Suggestions
In a slow market, it's
particularly important to get a house ready to sell
quickly.
Here are some popular ways to get your home looking
ready to sell fast.
- Fix any visible
problems that might be a red flag for potential
buyers, including repainting stained walls.
- Cover damaged
kitchen or bathroom floors with inexpensive
peel-and-stick vinyl floor tiles — if a more
expensive change seems out of the question.
- Repaint public
rooms that will garner a lot of a buyer's attention,
including the kitchen, dining room, and living room.
- Clean up the
exterior of the house, added potted plants, repair
damaged walkways, and put a fresh coat of paint on
the front door.
- Rent a storage
unit and get rid of about half the furniture and
most of the personal items.
When showing the property, turn on every light in
the house and tune radios on each floor to the same
classical music station.
Please call if you need
profession representation in your real estate
transaction.
John Chapman
702-374-4444 |
