How To Increase Your Home’s Value With Home Staging
From real estate agents to home shows on TV, the term home staging comes up quite often, however, the true value behind it is never explained. Sure staging can bring a space from mediocre to show-stopping, but it’s so much more than just aesthetics. Let’s walk through what home staging is and how it adds value to your home.
What Is Home Staging?
Home staging is best defined as the act of preparing your home for the market, but for us, it’s much more than that. Staging isn’t just simply moving around furniture, adding art and textiles and placing nick-nacks in the right place – it can bring added value and influence how your home is priced and contributes to how potential buyers see themselves in the space.
Why Home Staging?
The why is simple – first impressions are incredibly important. Within 4 seconds of entering your home, a buyer has subconsciously determined whether they like the space or not. Plus its been proven time and time again, that when homes are professionally staged they sell faster and for more money.
Influencing Buyers To Put In An Offer
If you’ve ever watched an HGTV show about selling your home, you’ll notice that the first thing homeowners are asked to do is declutter and depersonalize their space. You might find yourself wondering why that it. Depersonalization makes buyers be able to see themselves in your space. Instead of seeing your family photos everywhere, you open them up to a blank canvas where they can envision their family pictures and connect with the space.
Evoking A Particular Emotion
Home staging can have a massive impact on the feel of a space. The type of furniture, textiles and colours used will either create a sense of comfort in the kitchen, coziness in a family, calmness in the sleeping areas and put out an open, airy vibe in the hallways, bathrooms and entrance space.
Showing Off Your Home’s Best Features
This is by far one of the top reasons that you should consider home staging before you put your house on the market. Stagers strategically place every piece of furniture, rug, pillow and piece of decor in a way that draws your eye to top features. These calculated moves make sure to showcase every single focal point in your home stands out and can even aide in making your home feel bigger and more open than it is.
Before And After
If you’re still not convinced of the profound effect home staging can have one your home, take a look at our before and after video, and see the results for yourself.
We extend a complimentary staging consultation to all of our clients because we believe in the impact that it can have on the sale of your home. Looking to get your home on the market? Learn more about selling with us today!