"Home Staging" was coined by Barb Schwarz back in the early '70s, the concept has been used as "house fluffing", "dressed to sell" and "home-presentation" to name just a few known, but The approach is not in the house when the owners of a house sell, because many people do not understand, the idea can be created or does not work properly plan for the staging of their home.
The focus of staging is to sell a better home for the house more attractive to the largest number ofstakeholders. It 'was quite impersonal, not in the sense of violating a buyer's style.
Decorating is optional. For this is when your home for more money in the shortest possible time to sell - staging, however, is essential. Staging - is the difference between ordinary and extraordinary.
Given that home staging is really an essential part of selling your home, I wanted to share these 50 tips to start your own Home StagingTravel.
1 Make sure the house is named, before you or your agent takes photos for the web. About 70% of new apartment / house has started looking on the Internet. And 'imperative that the property looks good in photos, therefore, is to attract as many people as you can see the real thing.
2 Do not look a person in the house until they were listed in full. It should not pass through the solution of brokers, MLS, open houses, or something. PhaseFirst!
3 Kate Hart of Hart & Associates Staging and Design LLC, knows that home staging works independently for all objects in the price range, because home staging is to prepare your home for a faster sale and more profitable and marketing of your property, for the majority of potential buyers on its target audience. "I staged homes range from $ 100,000 to $ 10 million and are selling the same result, homes faster and for top dollar compared to its competitors within theirPrice range. "
4 If you have dark cabinets, a bright shiny gold handle, or something in them increased. If you have light cabinets, you can look through them to the handles of the same color so they are barely perceptible, or with brushed silver handles. With light wood, you can handle even more dark, gold, bronze or even colors.
5 Sometimes renovations are needed. However, here are five, you should avoid:
· Add high-end devices fora modest house
· Adding hand-painted tiles, the bathroom or kitchen
· Adding a central void
· Adding air conditioning (except in an area that all houses must)
• Exchange of windows with new models
6 Be sure to check your city or county building inspector before starting a new project. Many departments require permits, even for simple things like changing a washer.
7 Everything in its place is a good motto forto remember. Always save to find suitable varieties for your articles. Baskets in the kitchen and the pantry are just two examples of inappropriate placement.
8 Julie Dana of the designer house has the following advice: Do not have a visibly cleaner. You want the buyer to think that the house is cleaned. If you do not want buyers who work there to do in here will remember, so put away the laundry baskets and dish drainers towels as well!
9 Lisa Wonsey Space / Liftexplained that the sale to an empty house can be a big mistake. Purchase or hire of furniture is especially important in an empty house. Empty homes show well and can not sit on the market for months, until a buyer with a good visual imagination, or the seller the price drops so low that the house is a bargain.
10 The refrigerator should be clean, though not to leave. People will continue to look inside a refrigerator and remove dirt. If you takewith you, you can also clean it now. If you are leaving, then it is essential to get the champagne.
11 Ruthann Hatfield Art Placement Interior emphasized that removing elements is necessary, but added bill is important: Every room must be the work of art accessories, mirrors, tables, accent, silk flowers and trees, but also dishes, bed linens are embellished, and towels, so that all areas inviting.
12 Check for unusual odors in your home. It can come from animal orfrom the upholstery.
13 The cleaning is rarely fun for everyone, but should not be a terrible effort. Play some fun, live music. Before you know it, your adrenaline is pumping, and you'll be dancing your way through the house.
14 To clean these annoying spots in the bathtub, make a paste with hydrogen peroxide and cream of tartar. Use an old toothbrush to rub the mixture into the stain and rinse thoroughly.
15 To clean the microwave, fill a paper cupwith water and a couple of tablespoons of baking soda. Nuke for about 30 seconds or until the contents explode. Then you look at a paper towel and clean everything. The explosion spreads the cleanser over the entire surface, and you can even use the moistened rag or paper towel to clean the microwave and the surrounding area.
16 Mary Larsen of Larsen Trochlil Designs offers the following advantages: Do not offer money for painting or installing new carpet. Rememberif you do not provide, buyers probably will not is not.
Look around 17. You have items in your home that are unused and not a real emotional value? If so, they will go away! These types of objects are often found in cabinets, closets, cellars and garages. Sometimes they are on shelves or even in your everyday living space. The more you move, "collect" what the buyers want more next
18 If you do not have a plan for whatdo with the stuff is no longer necessary, in the basement or the attic or the garage is placed in or just get a bunch of stay in the room where they started. If this happens, then you do not really get rid of clutter - is moved to another location. If you leave the mess for home staging purposes, you have many different stacks. Some things can go to a thrift store like the Salvation Army, some things can go into landfill can go to some things on the field, and some things mayPutting aside for a garage or yard sale may be set. Know what you are going to do with the confusion is more essential to really declutter your home.
19 Sylvia Beez of map interiors inc reminds us that a home for sale should always be in the best light and in perfect condition, which does not present the reality of everyday life. Potential buyers do not want to see how you live, your children, dogs and cats, and confusion. Want to see themselves in a perfect house in perfectConditions and that is how a home should be introduced on the market forever.
20 If your kitchen cabinets, pantries, and drawers - even your fridge - looks jammed packed, it sends a negative signal to the buyer. This message is that there is not enough space in your kitchen. If they had a lot of space in search for the opening of your crowded cabinets, they believe that they can not find in your kitchen. The best way is to change this negative impression firsthave the same "space" as possible.
Marlene Feldman of Marlene Feldman 21 Associates offers the following tips for small rooms: If the dining room has a closet large to remove. Or when a top and bottom, remove the top. This opens up the space considerably
22 Check your bathroom. If you're like most people, you will find half-bottles of shampoo, a jumble of hair accessories, a curling iron, curlers foam, several dosesShaving cream, bath toys, lotions, medicines, books and magazines, oils, candles, toilet paper, and so on ad infinitum. The amount of things that we hold in our bathroom is by far exceed the capacity of this small room, especially if, as many bathrooms you have only a small medicine cabinet and vanity. The "stuff" that are not in use must be packed and moved out.
23 Katie Joanow explained by staging star: you need to remove extra chairs from the tables. LessThey have a huge space, you need no more than four chairs around a table. Also remove the leaves from the table more. This makes the room look larger.
24 The buyers want to see your carpet or hardwood or linoleum. Most house-rabbit suggest the removal of all carpets, unless you have a wide range of flooring, carpeting where it is considered acceptable. Carpets make rooms seem crowded. Without it, it opens on the ground floor.
25 Cabinets are designed to accumulate clutter,then you would never think of it as clutter. Maybe the stuff is wrapping paper or Christmas items, or an old sewing machine. Maybe you have some memorabilia and photo albums. Then there is the additional clothing and shoes. None of these things will probably throw in the pile, but should not be in your wardrobe, if you want to reduce the appearance of the disease.
26 Gail Greer in all rooms and Small gives this advice on painting at home: you must be willing to change,Paint colors. There are some commonly accepted and these colors should be used when repainting his house. Yellow or gold tones are warm and inviting. It should also be marked in yellow. Your eye is yellow, and then sees him first. The colors are green or blue in the bedrooms are great because they are relaxing.
27 Standing a few meters from the bedroom. What do you see? Whatever you see, is the first to see what a buyer. And 'good? And 'bulky?The room feel small? Move something out the door, unwelcoming.
28 A room of reserves should be seen as a bonus. This is a "Plus" of your home, but only if the buyer can be considered as such. For example, if the room is mainly used as an office, then, during the sales process, it should be just that - an office! Get rid of boxes full of extra bed and change of clothes last season. Get rid of the boxes of items to be stored in the closet. Keep theEssentials such as a desk in your office, store, library, and a beautiful chair in the corner with a small table and lamp.
29 Holly Weatherwax of Momentum Realty declares that, whenever possible, we suggest that the free garage storage. When people see that the seller does not have enough memory and must use the garage, they begin to wonder if the same thing will happen if you buy the house. People may think they might actually be able to use aGarage!
Discover the 30 organizations in your area to pick up objects. These organizations often include Goodwill, Salvation Army, veterans 'associations' and other local organizations. Another good way to use to get rid of items you no longer need is Freecycle. Here you can list items are no longer needed and then have someone from a list of their customers. The best part is the person to whom the items are at home on your schedule to do it. Here you will find a Freecycle groupin your area by clicking on http://www.freecycle.org.
Having everything from 31 meters. Everything. Remove all appliances from the countertops. Even the toaster. Otherwise you will look bigger and more spacious kitchen. There will also be the eye of the buyer to stop on a particular element is not always a complete view of the room. Put the toaster in a cupboard and takes off when you use it. Find a place where you can store everything in cabinets and drawers.
32 Charlie AnnCHAMBER OF CAT Taylor has a lot to say about these areas in the house: the kitchen and bathrooms have to be perfect model, because the kitchen and bathrooms to sell your home.
33 You have so much that your home is no longer taken any luster? Even if your personality has to be removed, the personality of the house is yet to come across.
34 One of the most important factors in the positioning of the elements in a room is the idea of transition. As the eye movesthe space that you do not want jumping from place to place, or piece by piece. The movement of the eye needs to flow - do not bounce. To achieve this goal, we want to avoid sudden changes in height.
35 Gail Jackson Weichert of Realtors said that home staging need not be expensive: The paint is very expensive and offers great value for your money. Although a little 'intensive work, the paint is not expensive and gives your home a new, fresh, clean look.
36 Give each room a touch ofthe unexpected. This can be done with artwork placed in an unusual way, with a piece of furniture in a way that would not normally use, or adding a splash of color, where the eye is less expect them. Be creative.
37 Follow the "come-with-like" rule of thumb. Size with large and small with small, broad with wide and narrow it is tight during the decorating process. Mimic the shape of each room decorating. For example, a sofa should be equippedhorizontally with the art, so they are integrated with a wide width.
38 Marcia Smart (Smart Interior Styling) tip is: Do you recognize that increased competition comes from new homes. People will have a new house with a bigger house, if all else is equal. So it is something important to the elderly at home which leads him to pass on everything else.
39 My favorite decorating advice is to look outside the box. It is not always an item for its intended purpose. For example, not onlyUse a tablecloth to a table, make a cover for your ottoman. You can save time and money if you buy a tablecloth at a local chain of verses meters of fabric, and buying the right size can be a no-sew project has become. Keep your eyes open for new uses for everyday objects.
40 Choose a focal point for your room furnishings and subtly guide and some light to it. If there is a fire, it will almost always take center stage, otherFocal points may or library shelves for beautiful collection, or a sofa with a striking image on the wall above his house.
41 Donna Reynolds of Home Rearrangements explains that there are two times you can angle the furniture: In a square room, and when a room is already in a corner, like a fireplace or a bay window.
42 In a bedroom, if you have no other choice, you want to see at the foot of the bed, if you do not want to include a bed, the crossPort because it blocks the flow and makes the room look smaller. It 'better to see your feet, so you can see the nice cushion.
43 One of the easiest ways to produce color is beautiful accent pillows in every room. The introduction of a complementary color accent in a room, a room "pop" and alive. Accent pillows add not only color but texture and warmth as well. With the addition of pillows in a coordinating or contrasting fabric on a chair, bench or bed, you canTransform your room and convenient to add instant warmth!
44 One way to see if your home has curb appeal is to go across the street and have a good look at your house. where has your eyes? They should be pulled to the front door and entrance area. If not, then you have to do something.
45 Kimberly Cash of ASPM Tidewater Home Staging Consultants, Inc. offers the following advice: People do not want to see their home as a product that you have to market and sell. ThoughSelling your home is as packaging. People look out before you decide to go then look at the inside before deciding to buy, and is based primarily on appearance. And 'packaging. You must pack the product, your home, like a beautiful package.
46 Once the yard in shape, it's time to work on the yard. The main areas of the garden are the courtyards, terraces and porches. Getting these areas to date is the buyer a feelingthat is always room bonuses.
47 new window treatments can make a world of difference. You can value and style to your home and something that buyers see as a bonus - it is something you do not need to buy or replace when they move to Prudence, however, that the neutral treatments to keep (keep your personality out of the room) and that you are sure you do not block the amount of light entering a room to do.
48 Debra Blackmon of Blackmon Design providesfollowing proposal for your windows: Many homes have turned the slats of the shutters on the floor. To reflect further improvement in the way they are used tends to rotate the blades are much needed ambient light on the ceiling.
49 Sometimes updating a room can be as simple as changing a light bulb. GE Reveal light bulbs as often yellow rays of light bulbs with filters, so that the colors look fabric, walls and artwork richer, sharper and more vivid.
50 Add to spoilAccessories! Bad things like bubbles, fluffy towels and candles not only bring a feeling of well being that you want to obtain, provide visual comfort with color and texture as well. Psychologically, we all yearn to enjoy a long time with a good book, and although we are only in the bathroom for 10 minutes of the whip on some make-up, only see the items appear to come promises wonderful bathrooms!
As you know, your house is a house - a product to sell. Staging your property has amore competitive advantage in today's market, transforming it into a marketable product. A property in the scene will help you sell your investment for top dollar and is the first line of defense to lower the price. No less than at the closing table to solve just because you do not understand the value of production of production or not to take the time or the money to do it well.
In this world of busy shoppers, has a role on stage, to inspire their imagination. Wantexamine the situation at home and know that live there. They want to know, that fit their furniture. They want to know everything "move in" condition. Staged because it is so important. It allows buyers to imagine living in your house with his stuff, yours.
Presentation is everything, and staging is the presentation! The result is an improved functionality and additional spaces. Following the techniques in this book is to maximize your capital, reducingthe market in time for your home.
