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Staging

Virginia is a graduate of the Accredited Staging Professional Program.

Staging is a mindset. You must begin to think of your home as your house and your house as a product. Detail your home like you detail a car. It makes perfect sense to invest the most care in the house you want to sell for the highest possible price. By Staging your house, you will immediately pull it ahead of the competition.
Staging is not Decorating. Decorating means personalizing your space; staging is depersonalizing. Staging is about getting a property sold. Decorating is optional. Staging is mandatory.
CHECK-LIST SUMMARY:
Stand in the doorway of every room and look at it through the eyes of a potential buyer. Replace worn carpet; Make sure all light fixtures work properly. Replace burned-out bulbs and increase the wattage of burned out bulbs, especially in dark hallways and corners; Repair and repaint cracks in walls and ceilings. Wash the walls and then patch the holes in the walls and touch up the paint – this is easy and adds a lot; Repair or replace broken light switches and switch plates, and clean the area around them; Keep curtains and blinds open during the day to let in light and views. Reduce the number of toss pillows on couches or sofas. Remove old or extra afghans and blankets; Take a look at your household plants – if plants don’t look healthy or are barely clinging to life – remove them while your house is on the market. Pack up valuable items to protect them. Clean your fireplaces. Glass doors should be cleaned and polished. Mantels and hearths should be cleared except for a few necessary items. To create more space, consider removing a chair, a love seat, or another large piece of furniture. Pack up all collections. They are a distraction from the desired focal point – your home. Reduce the number of books on the bookshelves; Remove family pictures from shelves, pianos and tables; Reduce the number of wall-hung photos and paintings in every room to one large piece on a wall or a small group of three. Make sure they are hung at the average woman’s eye level. Keep soft music playing during showings. Be sensitive to odors because buyers are. Wash all windows and make insure they operate freely. If the seal on a double-pane window is broken, replace it. Little things create clutter; pack up anything smaller than a football. Turn on lamps in all dark corners and make sure the bulbs are bright enough. You could put them on timers so they’re on during key showing hours – this can save dollars as well; Repair anything that is broken. This shows that your home is well taken care of; Don’t be afraid to move furniture from room to room. That extra chair from the living room or dining room may look great in the master bedroom. back to top

CLUTTER IS:

Indoor Clutter
Too many books Knickknacks Clothes lying around a room Papers on the kitchen desk Papers in your home office strewn around Messy bookcases Too many throw pillows Jewelry left out	Too Many family pictures Too many pieces of furniture in a room Too many accessories dominating a room Too many kitchen appliances on the counters All those stacked magazines Too many quilts or throws in rooms Too many plants Shoes left out
OutDoor Clutter	Old barbecue equipment Dead plants in the yard Paint cans
Too much patio furniture Too many plants on patios and decks Lawn mowers, rakes, shovels and tools left outside Plants not yet planted, in those black plastic pots Unused building blocks and stepping stones Fertilizer bags	Old barbecue equipment Dead plants in the yard Paint cans

The way you live in your home
and the way you sell your home
are two different things.

Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty

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