What is So Important About Staging a Home?
If you are one of the thousands of people trying to sell your home, you may already know the answer to that question. Staging can mean the difference between waiting months or even years before your home sells and selling it right away. It can also make the difference on how much money you will have in your pocket after you sell your home.Possibly, when someone mentions staging a home to you, you cannot help but think of the theater, and in a way you are entirely correct. When you work in theater, you not only have to rehearse the play, but you need to plan the backgrounds and every little detail of the scenes that are necessary to move the play forward and show the audience where each act of the play is supposed to be taking place.
Essentially, it puts them in the picture. The effectiveness of the stage can make a big difference in the play. Well, the same is true for a home that is about to go up for sale. When you correctly interpret the staging for a home, you convince the prospective buyer that the home is the beautiful place they simply cannot afford to pass up.
If someone is looking at homes built in the 1950’s because that is the era they love, you need the appropriate décor and setup to make them believe they really are in a home built in the 1950’s. That beautiful claw-footed tub in the bathroom with the new white handled faucets on both it and the sink say exactly what you want it to say without anything having to look old and decrepit.
When you have a home worth five hundred thousand dollars and the client wants it to look like a million, staging it correctly with deep, plush carpeting, beautiful woodwork, high end wallpaper, and all of the trimmings is going to convince the buyer that this indeed is a home that looks like a million bucks.
An improperly staged home is not only going to turn people off, but make a lot of other people pick another home with the exact number and size of rooms over it that they find more appealing. Walking through a beautifully appointed home that a buyer can fall in love with is going to practically guarantee a sale, oftentimes over another house they might have been considering making an offer on.
However, if someone searching for a new home sees a place that has ugly striped wallpaper, dark, ugly colors, and worn-out carpeting, the first thing they will think about is how much time and money it will cost them to tear it all out and fix it up.
Whether you are considering doing it yourself or hiring a professional to turn your home into a perfectly staged setup, take a moment or two to check out Decorate-Redecorate.Com. If you decide to do it yourself, you will find a great eighty page guide that will walk you through the process from start to finish so that you know the finished product will be a good one.
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