Staging to Sell
Using my home staging tips will get your home sold more easily in San Jose, California. D&F Properties can help you create an inviting atmosphere that makes buyers to want to stay permanently. Give me a call at 408-270-9776 and I can help stage your home to sell.
Professional home staging is a tried and true approach applied to sell a house here in San Jose, California. Some advantages to home staging include less time on the market and better offers. If your goal is to sell your house quickly, consider a well thought out approach to home staging.
Home staging is part of preparing your home for an Open House. Staging centers on on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while highlighting the characteristics of your home with strategically placed furnishings and artwork so that your home feels more spacious and buyers can envision their lives in your home.
Prepping your home for an Open House doesn't have to be a nerve-racking experience. Instead it can be an eye-opening and creative activity. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar bid for your home's sale. Use these home staging tricks to get you started:
Begin with the exterior of your house, better known as your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the exterior of your house from the view of a passerby. What do you notice first? What unique characteristics seem hidden?Knowing this helps us to choose what steps we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your house. If your house isn't the best it can look on the outside with touched up paint and bright garden plants we'll need to address those issues. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and elevate your house's final selling price.
Could a buyer envision themselves lounging in your living space, reading a good book in your spa tub or getting work done in your home office? I want your Open House to pleasantly accept buyers and give them a sense of comfort. I'll help you achieve this by suggesting changes that highlight your home's features.
I'll advise you put in storage things that give the appearance of clutter. Counter tops should be free and clear. Knickknacks, sentimental items, family photos, and play time drawings should get stored away too. You need to remove the personal details from the home so buyers can envision it as their new house.
Every room gets a once-over. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be put in storage, rooms that need new paint, carpet needing to get changed, fixtures that could use brightening, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively influence the sale.
I'll ensure your house has mass appeal and that it's inviting, staying away from "offensive" or "can't-work-with" colors on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can try renting furnishings. You want your home to look homey as opposed to bare and uninhabited.
Setting the Stage
The entire time your house in on the market, we're doing well if we're engaging the buyer's senses.
Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and add lighting where needed to show off your house. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music to listen to while guests enjoy your home and ensure a pleasing fragrance flows from every area. We'll include cozy-looking blankets, and place pillows on your couch and bedding. Buyers should feel like your home is their future home.