Home Staging: Tips for Staging a Home To Sell


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Best Home Staging Colors

Best Home Staging Colors

In home staging, one of the major ways to influence good first impressions of the interior of your home is by choosing the right color for each room. There is an element of psychology in colors that can be used to make an emotional connection with a potential homebuyer. Yellow. A warm and welcoming color - yet at the same time...

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Landscaping Curb Appeal

Landscaping Curb Appeal

Increasing curb appeal does not always mean adding elements and sometimes necessitates removing them. Take pictures of your house and view them in color then black and white. Doing this helps to see things differently and spot problem areas. An element of home staging is creating curb appeal that makes a home stand out from the...

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Home Staging Tips: Evening Curb Appeal

Home Staging Tips: Evening Curb Appeal

Curb Appeal doesn't end at the end of the day. It isn't unusual for potential buyers to drive by houses in the evening.One quick way to improve evening curb appeal is with lighting. Use these simple staging techniques for evening curb appeal. String lighting along your driveway, sidewalks, and near important landscaping...

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Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Staging Checklist

Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Staging Checklist

The kitchen is really the heart of the house and the one room that demands the most attention. When staging your home, this space needs to present well to buyers. Step 1CleanRead our Kitchen Cleaning Checklist in the guides and advice section.- Scrub the baseboards and vacuum the corners.- Polish chrome fixtures, dust ceiling...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Make a Headboard

Home Staging Tips: How to Make a Headboard

"Making your own headboard can give you the ability to change your look with very little cost"Step 1Gather all of your materials and find a large workspace. Your first step will be to assemble your headboard frame. To do this, cut your plywood to the size needed for your bed. On the back, attach your 1" x 4"...

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Home Staging Tips: Add some Style

Home Staging Tips: Add some Style

 Yes, in home staging , it is the goal to neutralize a home to attract to the largest audience possible. However, it is important to add some "style" here and there in the home. In the example above, the themes is "(Traditional meets Urban Chic)". We started off with the green and white silk flowers in...

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Home Staging Tips: How to use Bathroom Colors

Home Staging Tips: How to use Bathroom Colors

In Home Staging using the proper color combinations is crucial. When staging your bathroom, think color. The simple use of beautiful color combinations can drastically enhance the look and feel of your bathroom and there are many items to work with. Start with the walls and tiling to get a cohesive background that you can build...

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Home Staging Tips: Staging a Bar in the Basement

Home Staging Tips: Staging a Bar in the Basement

Whether you're doing home staging to sell or just updating your house for yourself, a basement bar is a fun element that can add excitement to your home. Here are a few basement bar ideas to get you started on your new home addition.The BarFirst, you'll have to install the bar itself. Whether you build one yourself or...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a Small Bedroom

Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a Small Bedroom

Small bedrooms can be a set back when you have a house for sale, as buyers are typically looking for as much space as they can get. Here are some small bedroom home staging tips that will pay off!De-clutter and De-personalize -First, get rid of everything that you don't absolutely need as this just takes up valuable space....

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Home Staging Tips: Garage Staging

Home Staging Tips: Garage Staging

Garage staging is one of the most neglected aspects of home staging as many people make the mistake of thinking that the garage is not important when selling a home. It then becomes the dumping ground for all of the things taken out of the house to make IT look good. But, don't under estimate the power of a clean, organized...

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Home Staging Tips: Window Treatments

Home Staging Tips: Window Treatments

When doing home staging, you can unleash your windows' full potential by utilizing window treatments that accentuate their beauty. When used properly, these window treatments will add a sense of style and purpose to the window and, in turn, the room, that will help tell its story. Window treatments are not only a choice in...

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Home Staging Tips: Vignette Staging

Home Staging Tips: Vignette Staging

Vignette staging is simply creating small scenes to show off a home's potential. These scenes should be kept simple and clean with the basic necessities of the space you're staging and a few decorative items. You can capitalize on vignette staging in homes that are vacant with huge success as it will put the right ideas...

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Home Staging Tips: The Rule of Three

Home Staging Tips: The Rule of Three

Living room staging is highly beneficial when you have a house for sale. The living room is often a highly utilized space and, thus, should get the attention it deserves. In home staging there are a few simple guidelines that will really pay off when the buyers come a knockin'.In home staging it is important to create vocal...

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Home Staging Tips: No House Un-staged

Home Staging Tips: No House Un-staged

Some houses for sale are intended to be "fixer uppers". Some sellers can make the mistake of believing that these houses don't need to be staged. Any house will look better and be more appealing if it has a few home staging basics in. Your budget may not include repainting or renting furniture but there are always...

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Home Staging Tips: Is Your House Ready for Buyers?

Home Staging Tips: Is Your House Ready for Buyers?

In home staging, there are a few things to keep in mind and check often as you work to make you're going in the right direction. Step one: Disassociate yourself from the house before you start as you want to take the viewpoint of a buyer.Step two: Look at your house from the outside and see if your drawn in or pushed away by...

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Home Staging TIps: Staging your home to Appeal to Both Sexes

Home Staging TIps: Staging your home to Appeal to Both Sexes

When you have a house for sale, stage it with items and colors that are non gender-specific. This way, a couple coming to see the house together will have a mutual appreciation for it. Remember, Home Staging is all about keeping it neutral.Stick to neutral colors wherever you can. This is especially important in bedrooms and...

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Ergonomics

Ergonomics

"Ergonomics" means - the science of equipment design and placement in the workplace to promote efficient productivity by reducing stress and discomfort for the worker. Basically, how to provide a comfortable and streamlined workplace set up. Some things to keep in mind are:Monitor height and distance - Your computer...

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Home Staging Tips: Lawn and Garden

Home Staging Tips: Lawn and Garden

Home Staging isn't just about the interior, its also about the exterior as well.Outdoor staging is one of the best ways to bring buyers into your home, as most buyers will drive by your house first to see if they want to check out the inside. A mowed lawn and some shrubbery or flowers will go a long way! There are some...

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Home Staging Tips: Rose Garden Maintenance

Home Staging Tips: Rose Garden Maintenance

A lot of home staging has to do with outdoor staging. This is what potential buyers see from the road that makes them want to check into your property further. Planting and maintaining a rose garden is an effective way to add beauty and luxury to your house. Here are some guidelines to help keep your roses in tip top...

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Home Staging Tips: Basement Heating Options

Home Staging Tips: Basement Heating Options

Basements tend to be cluttered storage areas instead of living up to their full potential. If yours is like this, you're missing out on a huge home staging opportunity that will make buyers have an extra interest in your home. This space could be staged or used as a game room, a second living room, a media center, a wine...

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Home Staging Tips: The Magic of Mirrors

Home Staging Tips: The Magic of Mirrors

Making homes appear larger and more open is an important trick that home staging experts and interior designers have perfected. Here are some of their best kept secrets. Hang mirrors in key locations and use glass dividers between rooms where possible. If you have beautiful exterior views, bring them in with a mirror's...

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Home Staging Tips: Spruce Up Your Fireplace

Home Staging Tips: Spruce Up Your Fireplace

Is your fireplace looking drab and dated? Home staging is all about reworking existing features to make their true value and potential shine through. Fireplaces are a hot commodity but not if they're ugly and uninviting. Here's how to take an old and worn fireplace and restore it to the stunning asset that it once...

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Home Staging Tips: Using "Green" Fabrics

Home Staging Tips: Using "Green" Fabrics

Home Staging is not left out of the green wave. When we stage our homes for sale, we have a lot of opportunities to choose "green" products. The "green" wave is a growing trend in today's world. There are many people, however that would be on the band-wagon but aren't due to a lack of understanding of...

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Home Staging Tips - Old World Office

Home Staging Tips - Old World Office

The clever use of home staging can greatly increase your home's appeal to buyers on the hunt for new homes. Your home office is a great place to start. Old world style is perfect for home offices as it's very strong and handsome. It possesses a masculine quality that, yet, appeals to women with all the elaborate carvings...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Utilize Niches

Home Staging Tips: How to Utilize Niches

What do you do with those cut out niches in your walls? These are actually a huge asset in home staging. A little spice up can go a long way!If your home was blessed with these niches, lighting is your best friend. Make sure each niche has it's own custom lighting to give it a spotlight effect. Single, down lights work...

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Home Staging Tips: Foyer Space

Home Staging Tips: Foyer Space

It's hard to have too much space in a house. If your foyer is small, use home staging tricks, like adding mirrors, to make it appear larger. To make it look longer, place the mirror at the end directly in front of you. If you want it to feel wider, place a mirror on each of the side walls. These tricks are also great for...

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Home Staging Tips: Dresser Turned Buffet Table

Home Staging Tips: Dresser Turned Buffet Table

One of the many great home staging secrets is to use furniture pieces that you already have and alter their usage to suit your needs. For example, if you're staging a dining room, you may want to put a buffet table against one of the walls. But if you don't already have one and don't want to spend the extra money,...

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Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Lighting

Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Lighting

Dining room staging is very important when selling your home. Dining rooms are intended to set the stage for romantic dinners, special occasions and celebrations, so use each item in yours to your advantage in catching buyers' eyes and hearts. One trick that adds class to dining rooms is the use of light fixtures. Here are a...

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Home Staging Tips: Minimalist Homes

Home Staging Tips: Minimalist Homes

Home staging basics include de-cluttering, storage, de-personalization and aesthetic appeal. Minimalist homes use these very same principles. The best and most thorough home staging tip would be to think minimalist. How does one achieve this look? Simple! No, really, simple is the key!Get rid of everything you don't...

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Home Staging Tips:  Basement Library

Home Staging Tips: Basement Library

Basements have all kinds of potential uses. This goes for basement staging as well. Now it's up to you to decide how you want to use and/or stage yours. If you have limited space to work with on this lower level, you may want to consider turning it into a library with a reading nook. This is a very simple transformation,...

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Home Staging Tips: Staging with Pillows

Home Staging Tips: Staging with Pillows

Are you looking for a way to make your bedroom pop? Using pillows is an easy and relatively inexpensive way to give your home a bedroom makeover that will have buyers jumping up and down with excitement. Some home staging experts say the best way to utilize pillows is to start at the headboard and work your way forward. Your...

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Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Centerpieces

Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Centerpieces

In home staging there are a few things to do to prepare your house for sale. Some basic interior design tricks can be used to your advantage. Lets take the dining room table and work with it. Setting the table is a great way to get into the minds of your viewers and make them see themselves eating there. Put out plates, glasses...

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Home Staging Tips: Let the Light In

Home Staging Tips: Let the Light In

 Buyers want to see a bright and airy Kitchen when they are touring your home. If the kitchen is dark and dingy - they are more likely to be turned off with the rest of the home. Also, if your kitchen appears dark, buyers think that you are trying to hide something. Leave nothing to homebuyer's imagination that could...

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Home Staging Tips: Bathroom accessory tray

Home Staging Tips: Bathroom accessory tray

Bathroom accessory tray:In the example above we created this elegant bathroom accessory tray. This is an easy way to bring in that "Wow" factor in the bathroom area. Home staging is all about exciting the home buyer by using creative staging techniques.Items: Butler's tray Set of three wash clothes (nicely folded)...

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Home Staging Tips: Home Office Placement

Home Staging Tips: Home Office Placement

 You don't always have to dedicate an entire room for your home office. In the example above - there was simply not enough rooms in the house to use as a home office - so we got creative and just artfully placed a desk in front of window in the family room - wah lah!. Home offices are now more than ever very popular....

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Home Staging Tips: Open Up the Curtains

Home Staging Tips: Open Up the Curtains

Buyers want to see bright airy bedroom when they are looking to buy a home. If the bedroom is dark and dingy - they are more likely to be turned off with the rest of the home. Also, if you make your bedrooms dark, buyers think that you are trying to hide something. Leave nothing to make the homebuyer wonder about. If your do...

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Home Staging Tips: Simplicity on the Table Front

Home Staging Tips: Simplicity on the Table Front

 When staging a dinning room table people tend to get overly exciting and end up overloading the table full of stuff. This can be distracting to homebuyers and breaks one of home staging's most important rules "de-clutter".In the example above, it is very simple - a couple of placemats, bowls, plates, pilsner...

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Home Staging Tips: Table Wear Safety Tip

Home Staging Tips: Table Wear Safety Tip

When staging a dinning room table, it is important to not use forks and knifes. This is a safety precaution tip that most home stagers adopt. When showing a home we don't want to leave out any items that could possibly used as a weapon. When holding an open house, many people are walking in off the street that you don't...

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Home Staging Tips: Outdoor Daily Routine

Home Staging Tips: Outdoor Daily Routine

 Keep it Well Manicured This is a good example of a front entryway that is well kept and has clean lines. Bushes and flowers bed are freshly trimmed and the walkway is free of any debris. We want our entryways to look like the gardeners just left. This gives potential homebuyers the thought that if the home is well kept...

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Home Staging Tips: Home Office Bookshelves

Home Staging Tips: Home Office Bookshelves

Home office staging and your office furniture are both reflections of your style, professionalism and how well you pay attention to your overall home design. Here are some ideas for office design that will help when you have a house for sale.Bookshelves can speak loudly as to your home organization skills, what type of work you...

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Home Staging Tips: Area Rugs

Home Staging Tips: Area Rugs

Rugs can be very helpful or detrimental to living room staging depending on how they're used. Here are some useful home staging rules and ideas to help you achieve the best results possible. In home staging, you want to limit the number of rugs used as you're not trying to decorate, but are attempting to set the stage,...

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Home Staging: Staging Bathroom Counters

Home Staging: Staging Bathroom Counters

When staging a bathroom you want to think like the buyers that will be viewing your home. Would you want to see a stranger's line of facial care products? By clearing off the counters of all body care products, toothbrushes, makeup and combs, you can really de-personalize the space and make it easier for potential buyers to...

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Home Staging Tips: Adding Warmth to Your Dining Room

Home Staging Tips: Adding Warmth to Your Dining Room

Some rooms are naturally brighter and have a warmer look than others. Warmth is a good thing in home staging as it is comfortable and welcoming. If your dining room is naturally cooler, repainting is an obvious solution. However, if your budget is small or time is tight, here are some ideas to help soften it up without...

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Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Staging Basics

Home Staging Tips: Dining Room Staging Basics

Every room in your home has a traditional purpose that must be returned to it when using home staging techniques to sell. This doesn't mean that you can't be unique with the rooms, it simply means that you don't want to put a workout machine in the dining room corner or have your office in the kitchen. That...

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How to Find the Perfect Office Desk

How to Find the Perfect Office Desk

When staging a home office, or any part of the house for that matter, try to use furniture that you like and would use normally. Since you're not selling your house with the furniture in it, you should like the pieces you buy, as they are most likely coming with you to your new place of residence. Sometimes this is...

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Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Accessorizing

Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Accessorizing

How do you choose which accessories to use in home staging? Use the old saying, "Less is more".First, you need to de-clutter and get rid of all your personal items that are currently strewn across your kitchen counter. Decorative, copper pots can be hung strategically as a nice eye catcher but any pots and pans that...

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Home Staging Tips: Living Room Seating

Home Staging Tips: Living Room Seating

Nowadays, living rooms have become the catch all for activities. Dining rooms are used less and less as people eat in front of the T.V. while entertaining parlors hardly exist anymore. So, lets make your living room just that, a place to live in its fullest sense.Seating is key! Arrange seating in groupings to accommodate easy...

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Home Staging Tips: Bedside Lighting

Home Staging Tips: Bedside Lighting

Bedside lighting is extremely important for home staging as well as regular everyday living, as it can save you a lot of trouble from eyestrain. As with all bedroom lighting, this should be relaxing yet practical. There are many ways of accomplishing this so use your personal preferences to combine some of these...

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Home Staging Tips: Foyer Feet

Home Staging Tips: Foyer Feet

What do you do when you get home from a long day at work? Do you kick off your shoes and leave them by the front door for tomorrow? This does not do much in the way of selling your house. To freshen up your entryway or foyer, lets start at the bottom, your feet.Replace your old, dirty welcome mat for a new, clean throw rug....

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Home Staging Tips: Basement Storage Seating

Home Staging Tips: Basement Storage Seating

No matter what you use your basement for, it's now time to set it up so your buyers can see it in a way that they would want to use it. Many basements become a catch all for storage and clutter as they are out of sight and out of the way. However, if staged right, a basement can seriously add to the value and appeal of your...

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Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Sent-sations

Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Sent-sations

Look isn't everything in staging a bathroom. Work the olfactory sense to your advantage with the use of subtle yet complimentary fragrances. Investing in scented oils and soap and pairing these with light-bulb candles, can really go a long way. Think of how you felt the last time you stepped into a fancy hotel bathroom and...

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Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Towels

Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Towels

Towels and their condition and arrangement can say a lot about how a person takes care of himself and in turn, his possessions and home. Make yours speak for you in your favor.First things first, put away any dirty towels. Would you want to see a stranger's used towels hanging there while you're trying to see the shower?...

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Home Staging Tips: Plate and Glassware

Home Staging Tips: Plate and Glassware

With just a couple of stylish plates and a set of glassware, you're on your way to a beautifully staged dinging room table. Don't over do it! Just a few items are all you need.Above Example:Items: Plate Chargers Dinner Plates Salad Plates Napkins/Rings Wine Glasses Placemats Flower Arrangement  We spent less...

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Home Staging Tips: Basement Into a Game Room

Home Staging Tips: Basement Into a Game Room

Why It Pays Off: There is nothing worse than that unmistakable damp-basement smell. A dry basement is far more important than worrying about the right lighting or furnishings. If your basement is prone to flooding, leaks, or excess moisture, call in a pro. If you do want to finish your basement by adding drywall, insulation,...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Stage your Closet

Home Staging Tips: How to Stage your Closet

Cleaning the house by stuffing the closets is like throwing money awayMethods: Remove everything from the closet Clean the walls, the floors, any shelves or drawers, and the doors. Brighten the closet with updated, more energy efficient lights. Patch any holes and paint. This makes the closet look fresher and brighter! Organize...

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Home Staging Tips: Appeal to the Masses

Home Staging Tips: Appeal to the Masses

It is important in home staging to stage common areas that appeal to both sexes. The master bedroom is considered a common area because two people generally share it. We want to attract to as many homebuyers as possible.In the picture above we chose a light green that is neutral in colors and added a few accessories. Below are...

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Home Staging Tips: Accessorize the Bed

Home Staging Tips: Accessorize the Bed

Create that Model Home feel!Below are the staging props we used on top of the bed:Price: $ 27Home Staging Channel Marketplace Breakfast Tray French Press Coffee Maker Fake Toast White Coffee Mugs Linen Napkin Sugar PacketsIf your asking "Does this really work?" the answer is "Yes." Buyers love to walk into a...

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Home Staging Tips: Live Plants and Flowers

Home Staging Tips: Live Plants and Flowers

It is important in staging to bring the outside indoors. The bathtub is an area in the home that almost demands live plants and flowers. Be careful and don't over do it! We don't want overcrowding because it can appear as clutter.We want buyers to see this area as full of potential and get excited. Bathrooms are...

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Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Ambience

Home Staging Tips: Bathroom Ambience

Be Creative! A faux bottle of champagne and ice is an easy way to creat ambience in the bathroom area. Allow buyers to feel that they just checked into a luxurous spa resort. Be creative! Excite the homebuyer with home staging tricks used by the pros.  ...

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Home Staging Tips: Bathtub Ideas

Home Staging Tips: Bathtub Ideas

The bathtub is a great opportunity to attract buyers with ambience. Every one loves to sit down and soak in a hot bath after a long day. Help buyers imagine themselves doing this by adding simple props in the bathtub area.Bathtub Props: Massage roller Bath salts Luxury soaps Bubble bath Facial applications Back scrubbers Face...

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Home Staging Tips: Choosing a theme for the Dining Room

Home Staging Tips: Choosing a theme for the Dining Room

Excite the buyer's imagination of entertaining friends, family gatherings and intimate dinners. You can do this by setting table scapes. Choose a theme and build from there.Above Example:We chose a modern chic style table scape. We incorporated silver, blue, crystal, white and black. You can choose any scheme you want; just...

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Home Staging Tips: Chic Living Room Makeover

Home Staging Tips: Chic Living Room Makeover

Before this room was dark and empty. Now we have staged this living room showing its true potential. Now homebuyers can see what this space has to offer and can start envisioning themselves living in this area.Color Scheme:Teal, Lavender, sky blue, green, cream and off white.Home Staging Accessories: Silk and velvet throw...

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Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Nook Staging

Home Staging Tips: Kitchen Nook Staging

This is an example of how to stage the kitchen table. Make your home show room ready and stage the entire kitchen area. We have to compete with all those new homebuilders out there with all of their fancy decorating and staging. Choose a table scape and colors that will flow well with the entire kitchen area. This is a necessary...

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Home Staging Tips: Hotel Room Feel

Home Staging Tips: Hotel Room Feel

We all love checking into those luxurious hotels with all of those lovely bathrooms items. We should try to emulate the same thing into our staged homes when they are on the market. Homebuilders deck out their model homes for one reason - to sell them!The first thing we always want to do when staging a bathroom is clean. The...

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Home Staging Tips: Basement into a Media Room

Home Staging Tips: Basement into a Media Room

Basement into a Media RoomWhy It Pays Off: There's nothing worse than that unmistakable damp-basement smell. A dry basement is far more important than worrying about the right lighting or furnishings. If your basement is prone to flooding, leaks, or excess moisture, call in a pro. If you do want to finish your basement by...

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Home Staging Tips: Throw Pillows

Home Staging Tips: Throw Pillows

Throw pillows are an easy and affordable way to add interest and warmth when staging a room. They provide Depth and are easy to change to match any room Step 1 Purchase throw pillows in a variety of fabrics, including prints, stripes, paisley, floral and solids. Make sure pillows are not over the top and stay in a...

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Home Staging Tips: Living Room Staging Ideas

Home Staging Tips: Living Room Staging Ideas

The living can be one of the most exciting rooms arrange while staging your home. Most people do not realize their living rooms full potential when it's full of riff-raff. Follow the steps below to help get your living room show ready!Step 1Stow your clutter. The living room can be a drop-off for shoes, unopened mail, and...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Stage the Kids' Room

Home Staging Tips: How to Stage the Kids' Room

Everyone on a budget knows how hard it is to decorate a home, even just a single room. A child's room can be one of the most challenging rooms in the house to stage. With a few easy tips and some creativity, anyone can stage their kid's room to present well to potential homebuyers. In this article, we chose a soccer...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Make a Bathroom Appear Larger

Home Staging Tips: How to Make a Bathroom Appear Larger

There is still a lot you can do to upgrade your bathroom without replacing tiles, removing fixtures or knocking down walls. These simple tips can make your bathroom look and feel larger quickly, easily, and best of all; cheaply. Follow the simple home staging techniques below to open up your bathroom space. Choose the Right...

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Space by Space Worksheet

Space by Space Worksheet

Use One for Each Space Create a focal point in the room. Furniture items, accessories or items to be removed: Furniture items, accessories or items to be added: Suggested furniture placement (provide quick outline of room below): Remove personal photos, diplomas, hunting trophies and religious artifacts....

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Home Staging Tips: How to Make your Yard  Appear Larger

Home Staging Tips: How to Make your Yard Appear Larger

A small yard can be a real challenge when it comes to selling a home. Use the home staging techniques below to help. Thing's You'll Need:- Lawn Mower- Mulch- Pressure Washer- Pruner- Shovel.Make a yard look bigger by avoiding large or overpowering plants that clog up the yard. Choose shrubs and trees that grow to no more...

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Home Staging Tips: Remove Kids' Play Equipment

Home Staging Tips: Remove Kids' Play Equipment

Are your children grown but their play stuff is still in the back yard? Has the large dollhouse seen better days? All the dated rusty playground equipment should be removed from the yard. Let's face it! Homebuyers do not want to see old play equipment in the yard. Potential homebuyers want to be inspired and drawn into a...

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Home Staging Tips: Remove Outdoor Clutter

Home Staging Tips: Remove Outdoor Clutter

De-Personalize your homes exterior by following the easy outdoor staging techniques below.Step 1Get rid of novelty yard ornaments that detract from the natural beauty of the landscape.Step 2Get rid of garden gnomes, no matter how cute - put them in the backyard along with the plastic deer and pink flamingos. Step 3Remove...

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Home Staging Tips: Spruce Up the Entryway

Home Staging Tips: Spruce Up the Entryway

When staging your home to sell, focus on getting your door in tiptop shape. This is the first door that buyers will walk through when viewing your home. Studies have shown that the one place buyers stand the longest is at the front entrance, waiting for their agent to open the door. Potential buyers have a chance to glance...

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Home Staging Tips: Add Some Outdoor Flare

Home Staging Tips: Add Some Outdoor Flare

Simple home staging techniques to add some flare to a bare exterior.Step 1Add planters and hanging baskets.Step 2Add bright yellow flowers - yellow has been proven to be the color of choice for homebuyers.Step 3Choose plants with a neat appearance and containers that are classically neat and neutral.Step 4Adding just a few...

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Home Staging Tips: Spiff up the Roof

Home Staging Tips: Spiff up the Roof

Your roof has a trenendous impact on curb appeal. Missing shingles and hanging gutters broadcast a loud, scary signal to potential buyers. "You want the house to look as presentable and nonproblematic as possible," says Cathy Cowan, an agent with Windermere Real Estate Co. in Seattle. "There's a great deal of...

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Home Staging Tips: Furniture Arrangement

Home Staging Tips: Furniture Arrangement

While staging your home make Sure every space has an easy flow.Step 1With a tape measure, find the dimensions of the room. Draw the outline to scale on graph paper. A typical scale is 1/4 inch equals 1 foot.Step 2Mark anything that would affect your arrangement: outlets for electricity, telephone and cable; light switches;...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a Master Bedroom

Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a Master Bedroom

While staging your home make Sure every space has an easy flowStep 1With a tape measure, find the dimensions of the room. Draw the outline to scale on graph paper. A typical scale is 1/4 inch equals 1 foot.Step 2Mark anything that would affect your arrangement: outlets for electricity, telephone and cable; light switches;...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a  Home Office

Home Staging Tips: How to Stage a Home Office

Use these simple office staging techniques to get your home office show ready. Step 1From the doorway, arrange the desk in a horizontal position. This allows the desk to be the vocal point of the space and not the back office wall.Step 2Try to arrange the furniture in such a way that pieces are viewed as a unit. Don't show...

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Home Staging Tips: How to Make Flowers Live Longer.

Home Staging Tips: How to Make Flowers Live Longer.

An important step in home staging is to bring the outside in. Fresh flowers put out a clean and fresh scent. Fresh flowers also bring in life that can be irresistible to potential homebuyers. Buyers love to see fresh flowers - it makes them happy, and happy people buy homes.Helpful HintHow to Make Flowers Last LongerStep 1Place...

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Home Staging Tips: Set the Mood

Home Staging Tips: Set the Mood

"Create a relaxing and luxurious Environment"Setting the Mood is prime goal in home staging is enticing potential buyers to stay as long as possible to view your home's many features. When it comes to master bedrooms, people want a quite, relaxing environment in which to pamper themselves. Create a relaxing and...

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Home Staging Tips: It's All About the Spa Atmoshpere!

Home Staging Tips: It's All About the Spa Atmoshpere!

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses; so staging the bathroom is one of the best ways to get your house sold and off the market. We all get used to our bathrooms and tend to overlook what are glaring problems to potential buyers.The key phrase to shoot for in staging your bathroom is "spa-like" atmosphere. You want...

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Home Staging Tips: How to De-Clutter your home.

Home Staging Tips: How to De-Clutter your home.

De-cluttering is often the first step in staging a home for sale. This is the step that can often organize most of the junk that needs to be taken away. People collect an amazing quantity of junk. Consider this: if you haven't used it in a year, you most likely don't need it."Step 1Decide how often you are going to...

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Home Staging Tips: Lighten and Brighten

Home Staging Tips: Lighten and Brighten

A crucial element of home staging is to lighten and brighten each space. This will make it more welcoming to your potential homebuyers. Choose your home staging decorating elements carefully to make the most of the light your room does get, and make the space less oppressive. Buyers love light and airy living rooms, but dark and...

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Home Staging Tips: Curb Appeal

Home Staging Tips: Curb Appeal

With the real estate market on the downturn, it is tough to sell a house these days. It could be a simple problem called curb appeal. If potential homeowners see your house they will generally make a first impression, split second decision on whether they will continue to look further. They may even come inside for a second...

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Home Staging Tips: Home Staging Basics

Home Staging Tips: Home Staging Basics

Professional home staging has become big business in recent years. Professional stagers can charge fees ranging from $500 for consultations to $5,000 for a full service staging. If your budget is too tight to fit a professional stager, there are a few simple ways that you can stage your house yourself.Step 1Remove clutter from...

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Home Staging Tips: Vacant vs Staged

Home Staging Tips: Vacant vs Staged

Vacant Houses Do Not Sell Quickly and Profitably...Some buyers can't make sense of the floor plan of a home that's not furnished. They have difficulty figuring how the home functions. So they can't imagine themselves living there. That's where home staging comes into play; buyers fall in love with a house because...

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Home Staging Tips: Is Staging Necessary?

Home Staging Tips: Is Staging Necessary?

The Solution to "Stand Out" in Real Estate Market Place.The answer is simple! Staging sells homes. Doing the math is pretty easy on this equation, there are hundreds if not thousands of homes on the market in your area and you need to set yours apart from the rest. Is the home grand enough to simply grab a buyer's...

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Home Staging Tips: What is Home Staging?

Home Staging Tips: What is Home Staging?

A Critical Step in Preparing a Home for SaleHome staging is a business that grew rapidly during the fast-paced real estate markets of the 1990's into 2006. The slowing of existing home sales beginning in 2006 did not damage the business of staging homes for sale. If anything, there should be a greater need to improve the...

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Home Staging Tips: Under Cabinet Lighting

Home Staging Tips: Under Cabinet Lighting

 Want to make your kitchen appear larger or lighten up the counter tops - Put track lighting under your kitchen cabinets. In the picture above, you can see what huge role lighting has in your kitchen when selling your home.Buyers like well-lit areas in a home that show off all of the details and charm of that particular...

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