Home Staging Tips

Professional home staging is an established strategy applied to sell a home here in Dallas. Some positive aspects of home staging include fewer days on the market and better offers. If you want to sell your house quickly, consider a well thought out approach to home staging.

Look at staging your house as creating an "image" for your house like a manager would do for a well-known entertainer. Just like creating a style draws more popularity for a public figure, staging makes your home more attractive on the market.

Prepping your home to sell doesn't have to be another hurdle in getting your house sold. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll strive for a high bid for your house. Start with these home staging tips and you'll see that your home sits fewer months on the market after listing:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your first chance to create a positive impact on buyers before they enter your home. The positive and negative features that jump out at buyers create their initial perception of your home and how you keep up your house's regular maintenance.Acknowledging this helps us to choose what plan of action we can use to attract buyers from the street and into your home. If your house isn't the best it can look on the outside with refreshed paint and colorful 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 New Home" to a buyer? Examining your home with a critical eye, I'll suggest arrangements that build up market appeal. I'll tell you eliminate anything that gives the illusion of clutter. Table and counter tops should be neatly arranged. Brick-a-brack, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator works of art should get moved out of sight. You need to "generalize" the home so buyers can perceive it as their new home.

I know instantly what a room's best characteristics are and how to highlight them. Enhancements that directly affect your bottom line include fixable like pieces of furniture that should be rearranged, rooms that need neutral paint, carpet that needs to be replaced, fixtures that need replacing, and windows that need washing

Working together, we'll make sure your home has mass appeal and that it's comfortable, steering clear of "offensive" or "personalized" colors on the walls and furniture. And if you've already moved out, you can try renting furnishings. You want your home to look inviting as opposed to bare.

Setting the Stage

The entire time your house in on the market, we're doing well if we're engaging the buyer's senses. Brightening up your interior is of major importance, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and add lighting where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests take a walk-through of your home and make sure a delightful scent circulates from every room. We'll add cozy-looking bedspreads, and throw pillows on your love seat and bedding. Buyers should feel like your current home is their future home.