How to stage a home can often be a challenge if you’re not sure where to start. Selling your home involves grabbing the buyer’s attention, and open houses are the make or break moment for selling your house. Staging your home determines how you will present your home to the myriad of buyers who are just checking your house off the list of the 3-6 they are seeing that day.

How to Stage a Home with Confidence 

Buyer Appeal is your Main Priority

Almost every home, condo or apartment can benefit from staging. The goal of home staging is to create a mood that buyers can emotionally respond to. Every house can look better with carefully placed plants, flower arrangements, updated lighting & appliances, less clutter, and less personalized statements and images. The potential buyer wants to walk into a house and see himself or herself – not the current family in a picture perfect frame in each room. No house is perfect – but staging works to help overcome any imperfections your house may have.

Catch the Buyers’ Attention with your Home Staging Efforts

Like anything else in this world, you have only a few second to catch someone’s attention. For an advertisement, it’s about 3 seconds, for most buyers it’s 7 seconds after stepping over your home’s threshold. Over 95% of buyers agents say that home staging has some effect on the buyers’ opinion of your home and 32% of buyers’ agents believe staged homes increase the dollar value buyers are willing to offer by one to five percent.

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Staging a home isn’t an option; it’s a requirement these days. With good staging, buyers will recognize how your home could be their new home. By following a few useful tips and tricks of the trade you can stage your home in an effective way that showcases the best assets of the house, impresses buyers and sells promptly. With bad staging, your home could be left languishing on the market for much longer than you’d like.

Keep Your Budget in Mind to Avoid Over-Staging

When staging your house, there are rooms that can yield more benefit than others. In addition to the ever-effective curb appeal updates such as mulch, new shrubs, and simple decorating tips, we have focused on the 3 most important rooms of the house: living room, master bedroom, and kitchen.

Houzz lends 21 staging tips to help you sell your home.

Did these tips help you learn how to stage a home? Go through your home and determine what is a high priority. These home staging tips should help you save money, make your home more appealing to prospective buyers and help it sell more quickly and at a potentially higher price than an empty, white-walled or over-cluttered house.

How to Stage a Home Infographic:

Take a look at this infographic that sums up all you need to consider when staging your home. It’s perfect to pin to Pinterest and to keep referring back to. 🙂

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