Home Staging:

Are you looking to sell your home?

Want top dollar?

What is Home Staging? Home Staging prepares your house for sale. Prospective home buyers want the best house for the best price. First impressions are key to sales. Research reveals that a potential buyer forms an impression of a house within fifteen seconds of seeing it. The impression begins at the curb. A typical showing lasts only ten minutes. The goal is to maximize this time to suggest to the buyers how they could live in the house you are selling. Your home should appeal to the widest range of potential buyers.

Home staging by Dressing Rooms Home Styling accomplishes this and gives your house an edge over the competition. Home staging markets and presents your home by highlighting its strengths and minimizing its weaknesses. It prepares your house to appeal to buyers with varied tastes and interests, not necessarily yours. Buyers need to visualize themselves living in your house.

Your real estate agent is an expert in selling and closing. He usually knows exactly what makes one house more attractive to buyers than another. We help your realtor sell your house by highlighting what buyers want.

While it is best to stage your home before placing it on the market, if your home has been on the market, and you haven’t received acceptable offers, don’t drop the price! Call us! Rather than lowering your selling price by a few thousand dollars, spend a few hundred dollars to stage your house to sell at your price.

HOW DOES HOME STAGING WORK?

We come to your home and start at the curb. We give you a plan which will present your home with the greatest impact. An initial consultation will determine your needs and what we will accomplish. We prepare a plan using existing furnishings, where possible, to show your home like a model. There will be a walk-through of your entire home to assess how you can use what you already have to present your house in the best light. We measure your rooms, note architectural features and furnishings, and take photos. We discuss paint colors, accessories, lighting, floor coverings, window treatments and traffic flow.

Dressing Rooms Home Styling will use this information to design a plan for staging your home for quick sale. We provide a detailed list of repairs and improvements that could be essential to sale. We will suggest re-organization, de-cluttering, cleaning, painting, repairing, sprucing up and accessorizing. This is your “honey-do” list. It is up to you to implement. You decide how much time and expense you choose to invest in this step. You may make the improvements yourself, with family and friends, or hire them out.

Once we have assessed the strengths and weaknesses of your home, formulated a plan, and implemented improvements, Dressing Rooms Home Styling will return to rearrange furniture, place artwork, lighting, floor coverings and accessories, preparing your home to appeal to most buyers. Dressing Rooms Home Styling takes your home to the highest level and a leap above the competition.

“Staging speeds up sales in a sluggish market and can bump up prices 2% to 10% in a moderate market. The biggest advantage occurs with luxury homes or in a market with bidding wars over properties, where effective staging can boost prices by 30% to 50%.”- Wall Street Journal, February 30, 2003

“According to the National Association of Realtors, for every dollar sellers put into staging, the sellers get $4.00 back. The average increase over the listing price is 6.32%, enough to cover your realtor fees. On a $500,000 house the added value of staging is $32,000!”- Homeowner’s Choice Magazine, February 2006

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