Home Staging Facts

People Buy What They Love. You only have about 10 critical seconds to impress any potential buyers when they enter your home. That is if they have already been impressed enough by the exterior and the curb appeal of your home and not drive off to the next house on market.

Maximizes Selling Potential — smart selling tool of Home Staging Design brings life into the lifeless empty house, and refines an already furnished home to it’s maximum desirable selling potential, and adds to the quality of the presentation, so it can be sold higher and faster.

Attracts Buyers Attention — a well staged home attracts more buyers, provide and easy flow, encourages buyers to walk through your house, keeps them in the house longer to the point that they can picture themselves living in the house. In addition, a staged home looks good, feels good, smells good, and sounds good.

Making your home more attractive to potential buyers can starts with no-cost organizing, cleaning and de-cluttering process.

Organizing

No cost staging — organizing is the first step of preparing your home for staging. It includes organizing all areas of your home, in and out. Everything from table tops, countertops, inside pantry, closets and cabinets, to storage area, garage, patios, and yards, have to be organized and clear of clutter.

De-Cluttering

De-cluttering — your home can have a significant effect on the success of selling your house. A stuffed home indicates there is not enough space and storage in the house. To eliminate this effect, remove all oversized furniture, and leave some room in the closet and inside cabinets and pantry. Light up inside closets and under cabinets.

Spaces identity

Give your spaces an identity — let each room to be set for one specific purpose. Combining a bedroom with office, and exercise room can be unattractive, confusing, and indicative of lack of space.

Cleaning

The cheapest staging step, and the second step, of staging your home is to clean your home to the highest degree. Make everything shine as if they are brand new. Kitchen and bathrooms must be shining, spotless, mold and odor free.

Walkways, driveways, siding, rain gutters, porches, steps, floors, baseboards, doors and knobs, appliances, countertops, light fixtures and light switches must be spotless and professionally cleaned. Only display brand new high quality preferably white towels in the bathrooms. Only use brand new bedding and curtains.

Grout of tiled area has to be clean and fresh. Clean them with bleach. If it does not work, carefully remove the old grout, so it does not damage the tiles, and re-grout. You will be surprised how much it would add to the perceived value of your home.
Rent equipment or hire a professional cleaning crew if you have to.

Graffiti Removal and Pothole Repair — do not forget the exterior walls, and the condition of the streets of your home surroundings. LA City has provided 3-1-1call, which is a free 24 hours connection to more than 1500 non-emergency services. Among these services are graffiti removal and pothole repair.

Painting

The second cheapest staging step to get your home ready for staging is to paint. You get the advantage of presenting a fresh home, at the same time getting rid of any odor that may exist because of the age of the home, pets, smoking, etc. If you plan to paint it yourself, only use the highest quality, and NO VOC (Volatile organic compounds) paint. They cost between 30-50 dollars. In most cases one coat of paint is all you need to get the same result with two coats of regular cheaper paint. By choosing no-VOC paint, you are also using a product that does not have an impact on your health and the environment.

In the current Real Estate market, it is critical to be on the competitive edge and reduce those months of waiting, and be able to sell your home faster and for a higher profit. In your home sales sheet, mention all the environmentally friendly, and energy efficiency features of your home.
Make your home to be presented as a bride in a crowd or a light house in a dark.