preparing homes for sale: Selling Your Home--Is Home Staging in the Signs? - 11/06/11 06:00 PM
Selling Your Home--Is Home Staging in the Signs?
Location, Price, and Condition are the major factors to consider when selling your home.  You don't have much control over your Location--unless you own a mobile home.  You don't have much control over Price, as that is a function of the market.  Follow the advice of an experienced, knowledgeable Realtor© in that matter.  Condition is the one factor that you have the greatest control over.  Changing your house's Condition is the only way you can impact Price and also how long your home is on the market.  Condition is best addressed by having … (12 comments)

preparing homes for sale: "A PERFECTLY KEPT HOUSE IS THE SIGN OF A MISSPENT LIFE" AND THE ANTITHESIS OF HOME STAGING! - 09/29/11 06:36 AM
"A PERFECTLY KEPT HOUSE IS THE SIGN OF A MISSPENT LIFE" AND THE ANTITHESIS OF HOME STAGING You have to love the title--well, not of the post.  The part in quotes is actually the title of a book by Mary Randolph Carter.  Even better is the byline:  "How to Live Creatively with Collections, Clutter, Work, Kids, Pets, Art, Etc., . . . and Stop Worrying about Everything Being Perfectly in Its Place.  While reading this it occurred to me that what she writes is the antithesis of home staging--the line in the sand separating "home" from "house"--which is critically important for … (10 comments)

preparing homes for sale: HAS STAGING GONE TO THE DOGS? - 09/23/11 10:11 AM
HAS STAGING GONE TO THE DOGS? Maybe not the dogs, but to the dog shelters for sure. What does professional pet photographer, Teresa Berg, have in common with professional home stagers? She says, "It's all about the marketing". Believing that many dogs were not being adopted because of the photos the shelters were putting on line, she "staged" each dog. Her results--a 100 percent increase in adoptions. Phenomenal.
Can't wait to scoop up the adorable dachshund in the picture below? That's the same emotional connection that every professional home stager strives for. That "oooh" and "aaah". The "I have to … (29 comments)

preparing homes for sale: CHANGE YOUR WALL COLOR WITHOUT USING A BRUSH - 09/22/11 11:49 AM
Change Your Wall Color Without Using a Brush
How many times have you been standing in a client's house trying to have them visualize the room painted in a different color--or without the wallpaper border?  Too many times is my answer.  Don't you just love getting that, "I'm-not-too-sure-that-I-agree-with-your-color-choice" look?  Clients can't necessarily "see" what we can. 
I found a simple solution to all of this when I stumbled across this app yesterday, called Pixelate.  Take a photo of the space (or use an existing one) and change the wall color in just a few seconds.  It has a virtually unlimited … (26 comments)

preparing homes for sale: SHOULD VACATION RENTALS BE STAGED? - 09/09/11 03:48 AM
SHOULD VACATION RENTALS BE STAGED?
Is your vacation rental unit up for sale?  Has your unit accumulated additional furnishings and accessories over the years leaving it a bit "overstuffed"?  Or are there some under furnished areas that leave buyers confused?  I provided a consultation recently for a unit that could answer "yes" to both of these questions.   
Typical of most vacation rental units, the owners had purchased this unit furnished.  They then added the very long chaise along the window on the right side of the first photo.  With the already over-sized furniture in this room there was hardly any … (21 comments)

preparing homes for sale: Stagers: Does the Mirror Stay or Go? - 06/03/11 11:58 PM
Stagers:  Does the Mirror Stay or Go?
Julia Maher recently wrote that great blog on removing mirrors hanging over fireplaces when you get ready to sell: 


Do You Really Want That Mirror On The Mantel? If You're Selling, Probably Not!
I believe, in general, that mirrors and fireplaces don't mix.  Back in March I wrote a blog about noting what your mirror reflects when you get ready to sell you home: 


Preparing Your Home For Sale--Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

So now my husband and I check into the home we're renting … (30 comments)

preparing homes for sale: Staging Graceland - 05/18/11 01:15 AM
As a professional home stager I find it impossible to walk into any home and not start analyzing what needs to be done to stage it for sale--even if the home is not and never will be on the market!  I think it's an obsession many stagers I know seem to have.  Needless to say, I couldn't resist doing this the moment I crossed the threshold at Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, when my husband and I toured it recently. 
Now certainly the Presley Estate is not selling Graceland and the home is preserved exactly as it was when … (22 comments)

preparing homes for sale: Is Your Front Entrance Welcoming? - 05/11/11 02:39 PM
Does your front entrance invite buyers in or scare them away?  I was inspired to write this post when I pulled into this driveway for a recent staging consultation. 

Not one, but two "No Trespassing" signs?  This home has been on the market for over a year and a half.  And, no, it's not just those two signs that have kept it from selling, or the two rather menacing looking statues on the lava-rock walls. However, a combination of those elements plus a large amount of landscaping debris sends a subtle message to buyers before they even walk through the … (44 comments)

preparing homes for sale: Getting Your Home Ready to Sell--Does Each Room Pass the Yardstick Test? - 03/11/11 05:38 PM
Have you decided to put your home up for sale?  After you have done the standard steps--clean, declutter, and complete all deferred maintenance items--it's time to take a serious look at each room in your house and determine if the furniture placement highlights the spaciousness of the room.  Even small spaces can feel large if the furniture is well placed.  One of the biggest issues seen in homes on the market today is either too much furniture or awkward furniture arrangement.  Either of these usually results in constricted traffic flows throughout rooms.  If there isn't ample space to walk around and/or … (87 comments)

preparing homes for sale: Staging a Dining Room - 02/22/11 04:54 PM
Dining rooms often seem to me to be the rooms with the most furniture and the ones homeowners use for more than one purpose.  Therefore they tend to collect things not related to dining.  When you are getting ready to sell your home take a really close look at your dining room.  Most dining rooms are furnished with a table and a collection of other furniture pieces including china cabinets, buffets, servers, sideboards and those "extra chairs".  This dining room is the perfect example:

The photo is taken from the foyer so it is the first impression when you walk … (14 comments)

 
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