Home Staging Tips

Careful home staging is a surefire method used to sell a home here in San Jose, California. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and higher offers. If your goal is to sell your home quickly, think about a well-planned home staging strategy.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging concentrates energy on your home's presentation to buyers while showing off the details of your home with thoughtfully placed furnishings and decorations so that your home seems bigger and buyers can imagine living in your home.

Prepping your house to sell doesn't have to be a nerve-racking experience. It can turn into a fun and inventive project. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar bid for your house. To see less time on the market in San Jose, California, start with these house staging tips:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your best chance to create a great first impression on buyers from a street perspective. The good and bad features that jump out at buyers form their first perception of your house and how you keep up your house's regular maintenance.Understanding this helps us to decide what measures we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your house. If your home's exterior isn't as neat as possible with refreshed paint and blooming garden plants it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and add dollars to your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Can buyers picture themselves watching a movie in your living room, relaxing in your reading nook or hosting a dinner in your dining room? I want your home to welcome buyers and offer them a sense of contentment. I'll help you achieve this by suggesting small improvements that enhance your home's features. I'll help you put in storage items that give the look of clutter. Counter tops should be free and clear. Kitschy sculptures, souvenirs, family photos, and refrigerator drawings should get stored away too. You need to "generalize" the house so buyers can imagine it as their new house.

Every room gets a once-over. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need a fresh coat of paint, rugs needing to be changed, fixtures that could use polishing, and any other improvement that can quickly be made to positively affect the sale.

Buyers want a home that charms them. Personal items that could be "offensive" should get moved out so that your home will impress buyers during any visit.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to show your house, because all of the improvements mesh together to paint a picture of what buyers can envision after they close on your house. Dark living areas can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like open curtains and change light bulbs where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests look around your home and assure a nice fragrance flows throughout your house. We'll incorporate cozy-looking throws, and throw pillows on your couch and bedding. We want buyers to feel like your current home has the potential to be.