Home Staging Tips

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Before you put your home on the market, consider a proven way to sell your house: professional home staging. Some positive aspects of home staging include fewer days on the market and higher bids. Try out professional home staging for a quicker home sale.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging centers on on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while highlighting the characteristics of your home with strategically placed furniture and photos so that your home seems bigger and buyers can imagine their lives in your home.

Empty houses stay more days on the market. Staging your property to sell doesn't have to be another hurdle in getting your place sold. It can actually be a blast. Together, we'll work to get a premium bid for your property.


	Using home staging advice will get your house sold faster in Sonoma County, California than deciding not to stage. Carrie Stine of Stephens and Associates can help you design a inviting feeling that makes buyers to want to stay — permanently. Give us a call at 707 355-1616 and we will stage your house to sell.

For fewer days on the market in Sonoma County, employ these home staging tips:

Curb Appeal

First, look at the outside of your home, also called your curb appeal. Look at the outside of your house from a quick glance from the street. What jumps out at you? What positive features seem waiting to be noticed? Knowing this helps us to choose what actions we can take to draw buyers from the street and into your home. If your home isn't the best it can look on the outside with refreshed paint and bright garden plants we'll need to tackle those issues. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and add dollars to your house's final selling price.

Curb Appeal Checklist >

Sell quickly in Sebastopol with home staging and with Stephens and Associates as your real estate agents - 707 355-1616

Welcome Home

Does your home seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Looking through your home with a buyer's eye, I'll suggest arrangements that enhance Open House appeal. I'll suggest that you put out of sight items that give the appearance of clutter. Tabletops should be free and clear. Knickknacks, souvenirs, family photos, and kids' works of art should get moved out of sight. We'll simplify the decor of house. Unattractive or busy spaces make your home feel unkempt and buyers have a harder time seeing themselves calling your place home.

I'll review each room of your home. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need a fresh coat of paint, carpet needing to get changed, fixtures that need polishing, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively impact the sale.

Working together, we'll make sure your home has mass appeal and that it's welcoming, avoiding "loud" or "too-bright" shades on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can consider temporary furnishings. The goal is for your house to look inviting as opposed to barren.

Welcome Home Checklist >

Setting the Stage
You'll know when your home is ready to open your home up to buyers, because everything comes together to create a picture of what buyers can expect after they choose to buy your house. To eliminate shadows important and we'll open curtains, and change light bulbs where needed to welcome the buyer. We'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music playing lightly and ensure a nice aroma flows from every area. We'll include cozy-looking bedspreads, and pillows on your chairs and bed. Buyers should feel like your current place has the potential to be.

* MOL = More or Less