How To Stage Your Home for Sale

Expert home staging is a tried and true tactic applied to sell a home here in Dallas, Texas. Some advantages to home staging include fewer days on the market and higher offers. If you want to sell your home quickly, consider a thoroughly thought out home staging strategy.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging concentrates energy on your home's presentation to buyers while showing off the features of your home with strategically placed furniture and pictures so that your home feels bigger and buyers can imagine living in your home.

Making ready your house for an Open House shouldn't be thought of as a nerve-racking experience. It can actually be a great time to let your creative juices flow. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar bid for your house. Below are a few home staging tips to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the exterior of your home, also called your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the outside of your house from the view of a passerby. What jumps out at you? What dollar-earning features seem waiting to be noticed?Knowing this helps us to decide what steps we can take to draw buyers from the street and into your house. If your home's exterior isn't inviting with touched up paint and bright garden plants we'll need to address those as well. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and add dollars to your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Could a buyer envision themselves enjoying game night in your living space, relaxing in your reading nook or studying in your home office? I want your house to pleasantly accept buyers and give them a sense of ease. I'll help you do this by suggesting changes that highlight the features of your home. I'll tell you reduce the effect of things that give the impression of clutter. Table and counter tops should be neatly arranged. Knickknacks, sentimental items, family photos, and kids' works of art should get stored away too. You need to give mass appeal to the house so buyers can envision it as their new home.

I'll review every room of your home. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be rearranged, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to get changed, fixtures that need shining, and any other improvement that can quickly be made to positively impact the sale.

I'll make sure your home has mass appeal and that it's inviting, staying away from "offensive" or "too-bright" colors on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can try temporary furnishings. You want your home to look inviting as opposed to vacated.

Setting the Stage

At every showing, we want to engage the buyer's senses. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and reduce shadows where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests tour your home and assure a delightful aroma circulates from every room. We'll make use of cozy-looking throws, and pillows on your love seat and bedding. We want buyers to feel like your current home has the potential to be.