Is Staging A Home Worth It?
In today’s buyer’s market, where housing inventories are high, sales are slow, people go through all sorts of efforts to make their house stand out from the rest. There are all sorts of tips that one can read, but one that we have used to sell our houses is to use a professional stager.
Our story
We bought an ugly house that needed serious rework. We hired Dominion Home Staging, in Richmond VA.
Our house looked like a duplex since the original structure was red brick, and the addition was sided with white aluminum.
Inside, the kitchen was in a country style, with the dark knotty pine cabinets, and a vinyl floor with a dark brick pattern.
The bathrooms had a mix of chrome and brass fixtures.
There were several different colors of paint, ceiling fans from the past decades (seemingly a different decade in each room), and the house had an addition that had such an awkward layout that it was hard to figure out how to arrange a sofa and chair.
With a professional home stager leading the design we fixed all these problems. We painted the exterior of the house in one color with accenting trim. We painted the interior with a color scheme that tied the entire house together. We updated the kitchen with knobs, paint, and new counter tops.
We rented furniture to fill out all the rooms to suggest a use. The room with the awkward layout was turned into a game room, home office, and conversation area, all suggested with furniture. In fact, going to Dominion Home Staging, and look at their case studies, and you will see the house before and after pictures.
Lessons learned
When we used Dominion Home Staging, we gave that team a blank pallette of the entire house. As such, they tied the whole thing together, and we had a rather sizable budget to work with. When people walked into our staged home, the most common reaction from every person was “This house makes me feel calm.” That was the design goal and it worked.
Some people can’t spend as much as we did on renovating the house. Yet home stagers can scale their services down to observing your house and making suggesting on the layout of furniture, a quick repainting of a room, relocating some accessories, and help the seller notice what they have not ever noticed before.
With the sharp eye of the design team from Dominion Home Staging, we fixed a lot of errors in the property, and a professional stager can help you.
Was it worth the cost? Yes.
Did it help our sale? Yes.
Would we do it again? Yes.
Learn more FSBO tips to sell your home by visiting FSBO TIPS or www.fsbotips.chrisbuyshousesva.com
Chris Walker is a professional homebuyer with http://www.chrisbuyshousesva.com and has been both buying and selling properties in Central Viriginia since 2002. He has helped people avoid foreclosure, sell their house quickly, and sell their outdated properties to other investors. He started Fsbo tips as a website to help homeowners that couldn’t sell their house to him, but wanted to still proceed without an agent.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=J_Christopher_Walker