Three Staging Tips to Help You Get the Best Deal
Staging is one of the most critical steps during a house sale. It aims at presenting the house to be as attractive as possible to the guests so that they will buy it. And you actually have two options: let your agent do everything or take matters into your hands. Either way, you must know what needs to be done in this phase.
Declutter First
Real estate agents will be the first to tell you this about your home, and home stagers echo the sentiment. By taking out those personal touches, potential buyers won’t wonder about who lives in the house, and will instead picture themselves there.
Michelle Minch, owner of Moving Mountains Design in Pasadena, California, says homeowners should remove “any photographs or artwork that has a face with eyes,” because buyers often focus on the people in the image more than the features of the home.
“You don’t want somebody to come and look at your house, and look at a picture of you, and say, ‘My family isn’t like that,’ or, ‘I don’t look like this,’ or, ‘They’re different than me, so this house isn’t for me,'” Minch says. “We want them looking at the house, not being distracted by the people who live in the house.”
Make a Clear Observation Path
Realtors are all about home staging which is essential but too often we find that the character and personal touches have been completely removed and replaced with generic-boring-safe pieces of furniture found at box stores …
