A Veteran Home Stager: How to Avoid the Top 5 Common Staging Mistakes
WARNING: Lots of Befores and Afters below. I only have two goals when staging a house to sell: #1 Completely ready and transform a property into a show-stopping, heart-warming, offer-producing dream home. #2 Give the owners not only their dream home, but what they thought they paid for at closing, which reflects well on the sellers, listing company, and especially on the REALTOR. I've been doing this for 16 years and have staged hundreds of houses (which equals thousands of rooms !), and this list comprises the main reasons that some houses sit on the market longer than professionally and well-staged and prepared homes. #1 CLUTTER/CLEANLINESS The most common reason I hear for peoples' reasons to move is "more space". So, if you're showing your your house in cluttered, not-enough-storage condition, you're just proving to the buyer that there's not enough room for them either. Simplify it. (Use the AFTERS in this post to give you an idea of just how simplif...