How To Stage Your Residence for an Open House
If you'd like extra information on home staging to sell your home quickly in Lake Oswego, contact me and I'll help you with promoting the best image for your house.
Expert home staging is a proven technique applied to sell a home here in Lake Oswego. Home staging benefits include less time on the market and higher selling prices. If your goal is to sell your home quickly, choose a well thought out approach to home staging.
Look at staging your home as creating an "image" for your house like a publicist would do for a high profile politician. Just like creating an image garners more popularity for a public figure, staging makes your real estate more inviting on the market.
Staging your property to sell shouldn't be thought of as an annoying experience. It can turn into a thrilling and creative task. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar offer for your house. Below are a few home staging tricks to get you started:
Curb appeal is your first chance to make a positive impact on buyers from a street perspective. The good and bad features that jump out at buyers shape their initial perception of your house and how you perform house's regular maintenance.Knowing this helps us to choose what actions we can take to draw buyers from the street and into your house. If your house isn't at its best on the outside with refreshed paint and bright greenery we'll need to address those issues. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and raise your house's final selling price.
Does your home seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Examining your home from a buyer's view, I'll advise you of changes that enhance Open House appeal.
I'll suggest that you take away anything that gives the impression of clutter. Table and counter tops should be cleared off. Kitschy sculptures, souvenirs, family photos, and kids' artwork should get stored away too. I can help you de-clutter your house. Ugly or dirty spots make your home look unkempt and buyers have a harder time imagining themselves living there.
I'll look over each room of your home. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need a fresh coat of paint, carpet needing to be changed, fixtures that could use polishing, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively affect the sale.
Working together, we'll make sure your house is neutral and that it's comfortable, steering clear of "offensive" or "can't-work-with" hues on the walls and furniture. And if you've already moved out, you can consider temporary furnishings. The goal is for your house to look lived in as opposed to deserted.
Setting the Stage
I'll tell you when to show your house, because all of the improvements mesh together to set the stage for what buyers will expect after they choose to buy your house.
Dark rooms can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like part the curtains and reduce shadows where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music playing lightly and make sure a pleasing scent circulates room-to-room. We'll add cozy-looking bedspreads, and place pillows on your love seat and bedding. Buyers should feel like your current home has the potential to be.