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Home Staging is an effective sales technique that integrates decorating with marketing and creates an experience for home buyers. It’s about more than just furnishing a home – it’s about selling a lifestyle. The elements of home staging will help to neutralize your home by eliminating all potential distractions and drawing the focus to the features of the home instead. Home Staging allows you to market your home to the largest audience possible by maximizing your home’s potential. This can be as simple as reducing clutter and reorganizing the space, or as complex as creating a staging plan and providing the furniture and accessories needed to execute the plan. Each home is unique and will require a different variety of services but all start with an INITIAL CONSULTATION, providing a full home evaluation including a written report complete with all recommendations for improvements and updates. We help to clearly define all areas of the home to eliminate those distractions that will keep buyers from seeing and remembering the great features of your house.
Did you know that only 10% of people can visualize a space? By neutralizing the space and clearing out the clutter, potential buyers can better visualize themselves in your house. If your home is filled with personal items, clutter, and bold colors, buyers are often distracted and fail to see the potential of the space. Home staging is a marketing tool that simply a tool that helps them to see this by integrating decorating with marketing and create an experience for home buyers. Home staging helps to clearly define each space and sell a lifestyle. The elements of home staging will help to neutralize your home by eliminating all potential distractions and drawing the focus to the features of the home instead. Home Staging allows you to market your home to the largest audience possible by maximizing your home’s potential. This can be as simple as reducing clutter and reorganizing the space, or as complex as creating a staging plan and providing the furniture and accessories needed to execute the plan.
Redesign uses the same techniques as home staging to help to freshen up your home. Working with what you have, redesign can mean breathing new life into a room, without the expense of a full makeover.
Your home is generally your biggest investment. Investing in home staging will help to maximize your return on this investment. A few dollars on home staging will go a long way by ensuring that you sell your home faster, and for more money. All statistics show that the investment in staging your home is always less than your first price reduction. Did you know that only 10% of buyers have the ability to visualize a space? This is just one of the reasons that home staging is so important in today’s real estate market. Buyers are looking for a “move-in ready” home and will pay more to get this. We are selling an experience, not just a home.
This is probably the number one question that we get from our clients. We understand that it might seem like a waste if the new homeowner might just change it, but there are a few reasons why this makes sense to do: If the colors you’ve chosen are bold, it will distract potential buyers from being able to see the potential of the rooms. A fresh, neutral paint means the new homeowner doesn’t have to paint right away and gives the home that “move-in ready” look. Sure, they might decide to change the color at some point, but by providing freshly painted walls, your buyers will not feel that they need to tackle this right away. It is one of the least expensive updates you can do to your home, with one of the greatest returns on your investment (it’s like money in a can).
Definitely. While it may sound cliché, you only get one chance to make a first impression. When your home is listed, you want to be sure that it is ready to show at its best, both in pictures and for showings.
Staging a vacant home helps to define the space for buyers. Each room has a purpose, and staging helps to clearly identify this to potential buyers. Empty rooms actually tend to look smaller and can leave buyers questioning whether or not their own furniture will fit in these rooms. By setting up a room properly, not only can they see that the furniture fits but it will give them the ideal placement, as well as inspire them with the decorative touches.
It varies depending on the how much or how little your home requires. A free professional home staging quote is available upon request.
If your real estate agent is a qualified home stager that includes this service as a part of their fees, there may not be a need to hire an outside stager. However, your realtor is busy listing and marketing your home, which is why most agents choose to work with a trained Home Stager, in order to allow each professional to focus on their areas of expertise.
Well, of course the easy answer is if you’re looking at this site, it’s safe to say you already found your Home Staging Professional! But if you’re still not sure, research your local stagers. Check out their portfolio and reviews. If you have hired a realtor, ask if they have a home stager that they prefer to work with. Most stagers offer similar pricing, and you should never base your decision on price. Remember that Home Staging is an investment and saving a few dollars could mean several thousand on the return of your home.
Wine Country Home Staging has found top professionals in your area to assist you with your needs in getting your property “sell-ready”. Wine Country Home Staging is happy to provide you with the contact information for any of these Preferred Vendors at no charge. Wine Country Home Staging will contact, schedule, and manage these on your behalf for an additional fee.
Wine Country Home Staging strives to avoid over-booking in order to accommodate all of our clients needs. This is a full-time/full-service company and we will do our best to meet your time-frame, budget, and needs, but thinking of home staging FIRST allows us the time necessary to address all of your home’s needs.Have a question and don’t see the answer here? Click HERE to CONTACT US.
You don’t have to do any of them! However, the more you complete, the better your chances of selling your home, faster and for the most money. We understand that some of the recommendations may not fit your time-frame and/or budget but suggest that you aim for a minimum of 75% of all suggestions. You or your Real Estate agent have hired us to provide our expert opinion regarding the best way to showcase your home and we are therefore required to provide you with all recommendations for increasing the overall sale-ability of your home. All recommendations provided are based on buyer expectations, and adjustments that could be made to best appeal to them. How much you choose to do is up to you, however most Wine Country Home Staging clients implement approximately 90% of our recommendations.