boca raton home staging: FL Home Staging FAQ's- Why Do I Need to Remove My Personal Photos? - 05/30/12 03:33 AM
FL Home Staging FAQ’s- Why Do I Need to Remove My Personal Photos?One of the most used and abused dictums in Home Staging is to remove all personal items with the focus being on personal photos. It’s one of the first things I hear when people talk about Home Staging..... “I know, Kathy, I have to remove all my family pictures.”Here’s why :~ Like anything else when preparing your home to sell, we want to remove items that might distract the Buyer from seeing your home and its space. A wall covered with family photos.... a table covered in picture frames … (38 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Boca Raton Home Staging- Tips for Snowbirds Selling Your Home. - 05/22/12 04:18 AM
Boca Raton Home Staging- Tips for Snowbirds Selling Your Home
If your house is on the market and you plan to be away during Hurricane Season, here are some tips that won't derail your sale. Boca Raton and so much of Florida has seasonal residents whom we call Snow Birds..... they migrate north usually around Memorial Day and return sometime after Labor Day. This also happens to occur during hurricane season which begins June1 and ends November 30th.
If you're not selling your home, you would typically bring in all of your patio furniture as well as any items … (26 comments)
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boca raton home staging: How Important Is It To Stage a Room That No One Really Wants? - 03/03/12 04:06 AM
How important is it to stage a room that no one really wants? If most homeowners don’t use, need or want a formal living room anymore, how important is it to Stage a living room as a living room? I know many Realtors and Stagers have come upon houses where the living room is being used as a child’s playroom/office/exercise/ pool table room. And in fact, I’d bet that many of us use our own living rooms as any of the above. Everything but a living room.
In our consultations Stagers often suggest that rooms be returned to their original purpose....
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boca raton home staging: Every Property Deserves To Be Staged... Regardless of Price Point! - 02/18/12 03:58 AM
Every Property Deserves To Be Staged... Regardless of Price Point. I hear this so many times... some Realtors and Sellers won’t even consider Staging a property unless it is at or above a certain price point.
And why is this?
1.Every property has a set of possible buyers for it... a set based on the location, list price and condition of the property. And while not every buyer is alike one thing they have in common is that the property needs to appeal to them. We’re still going to suggest editing, packing, cleaning and repairing no matter what the … (25 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Boca Raton Home Staging- Want Your Buyers to Fall in Love With Your Home? Then You Need To Know Their Hot Buttons! - 02/16/12 06:51 AM
Want your buyers to fall in love with your home? Then you need to know their hot buttons. Selling your home in Boca Raton, Delray or anywhere in Palm Beach County is no different from anywhere else. Your house needs to be in move-in ready condition and appeal to a broad range of Buyers. A recent survey of over 2200 first time home buyers by Trulia asked men and women what features made them fall in love with a house. How can this help you …. The Seller? Well, as you are preparing your home for sale you may want to … (39 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Boca Raton-Your Buyers aren't Just Looking at Your House, They're Smelling It As well! Some Do's and Don'ts! - 02/13/12 09:21 AM
Home Staging Tips in Boca Raton- Your Buyers aren’t just looking at your house, they’re smelling it as well! Some Do’s and Don’ts!Buyers can be distracted by many things when they’re viewing your house....too many “things”, pets, items in need of repair, and many more things. And one distraction hits the Buyer as soon as they walk in the door.... odors.They can be from your beloved pets, last nights fried fish, smoke, mold, or just from having a closed up house all winter. If you want your Buyers to want to linger in your house.. to begin to visualize themselves living … (26 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- 4 Things to Do BEFORE Your Staging Consultation... - 02/07/12 08:18 AM
Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- 4 Things To Do BEFORE Your Home Staging Consultation. (and 4 Bonus “Don’ts)Congratulations, you are taking the right steps you need to take to help get your home sold. Investing in a Home staging consultation will give you the tools and information you need to prepare your home for sale. To help you make the best use of your time with your professional home stager, here are 4 things YOU can do before your Home Stager arrives:1. Step outside the front door of your home.. take a few Yoga breaths... then open the door … (41 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County: 10 REASONS NOT TO STAGE YOUR HOME - 02/06/12 03:19 PM
My friend and fellow Stager, Janet Jones, has given us 10 Reasons NOT to Stage your home! What that you say? Reasons NOT to Stage your home?
If you are planning on selling your house and not sure whether or not you should stage it.... be sure to read this first. Staging is not always what you think it is nor does it cost even a portion of what you might think. The investment you make in staging... and that's what it is.. an investment in your future in your new home... is a drop in the bucket compared to your … (5 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Boca Raton Home Staging-Most Buyers Can't "See" your Home's Features when it's Vacant (On the market for 7 months, then Staged & Sold in 1 Week) - 01/31/12 11:16 AM
Most of us realize the importance of staging a vacant home. If you say you don't need to see furniture and accessories in it count yourself among the 10% of the public who have the ability to "imagine" the room. BUT... are you willing to take a chance on the 90% of the general population who will look at an empty room and walk away with no feeling or emotion towards the room?
Maureen Bray has done a perfect job of showcasing the Before and After benefits of Staging. And, I applaud her because her After photos are taken from … (0 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Confessions of a Home Stager... I Have to Admit...I Was a Member of THAT Group! - 01/30/12 06:12 AM
Confessions of a Home Stager... Put down the phone Gertrude ... it’s not what you think. Before I morphed into a Home Stager I was part of the “just paint it and clean it and if they don’t like it tough!” club. I have a distinct memory of flipping channels one Saturday and falling upon one of those Cable Channel Home Staging shows. In it the family watched a video of potential “buyers” as they walked through and critiqued their home. I remember when one couple was highly critical of the dated bedspread in the Master Bedroom, I shouted at the … (62 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- Waiting to See How it Goes Before You Stage? Here are 6 Reasons Why You Shouldn't. - 01/27/12 06:40 AM
Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- Waiting to See How It Goes Before You Stage? Here Are 6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t.I run into this all of the time when I speak with Realtors... they have your home listed and are doing everything they can to get it sold for you. They’ve done their research and have suggested the best List Price for your home based on the market, your competition, location and condition of your home.There are items regarding condition that your Realtor feels need to be addressed to give your home the best chance of selling but you’d … (41 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- STOP! Leave Me Something to Work With! - 01/12/12 06:07 AM
Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County- STOP! Leave Me Something to Work With!Staging your home in Palm Beach County doesn’t have to break the bank! On many occasions I’ve staged homes that were not occupied but still had all of the furniture and accessories of the owner. And sometimes the owner, thinking they were being helpful and offering me a clean slate would pack up and cart away almost everything in the home except all but the basic pieces of furniture. STOP!!! Don’t Touch a Thing Until You Talk to Your Stager!
Unless we’re staging a totally vacant property, … (56 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Boca Raton Home Staging- 5 Tips for Turning Your Bathroom GREEN!!!! - 11/13/11 11:38 AM
Boca Raton Home Staging- 5 Tips for Turning Your Bathroom GREEN!
One of my favorite bloggers, Debe Maxwell, our Charlotte NC go to Realtor, has shared 5 easy and relatively inexpensive ways to make your bathroom eco-friendly and save you money as well.
I've been using baking soda and vinegar for years and feel so much better about not rinsing toxic chemicals down the drain.
If you want to save money AND help our environment, please give these a try.
Via Debe Maxwell - Search Charlotte Homes for Sale - Charlotte NC Neighborhoods (iCharlotteRealEstate.com Savvy + Company Real Estate):
Five Tips … (0 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Boca Raton Home Staging- Things You Need to Ask Before You Get Additional Storage Space! - 08/08/11 11:33 AM
Boca Raton Home Staging- Things You Need to Ask Before You Get Additional Storage Space!
Whether or not you are selling your house in Boca Raton or anywhere else in Palm Beach County, chances are you have been told to store or remove some of your "clutter". Your Realtor no doubt brought this up when you listed your house. If you've had a Home Staging Consultation, your Stager probably suggested packing up unnecessary items so you won't detract from your Buyer being able to see the space your house has.
That's often easier said than done. You're still living in … (28 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County-Home Staging Is Needed AND is Available for Every Pricepoint! - 06/27/11 06:25 AM
Home Staging Tips in Palm Beach County-Home Staging is Needed AND is Available for Every Pricepoint!
I've often heard people say that Staging is only for higher priced homes.
I've also heard people say that a certain higher end home had expensive design work and therefore did not need Staging.
The truth is I've seen $3 million dollar listings that very much needed to be Staged and I've consulted on $80,000 listings. Clutter has no boundaries!
A home can be beautifully decorated with expensive furnishings and art but be so taste specific and cluttered that … (29 comments)
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boca raton home staging: This Beautifully Updated Boca Raton Condo Needed Just a Little Softening. - 03/15/11 07:41 AM
Room Service! Home Staging was called upon recently to see if adding a little "jewelry" might help their Boca Raton Florida condo sell. The owners are out of town, so they asked their Realtor to find a home stager and see just what could be done.
This Boca Raton Condo along A1A has beautiful hardwood flooring, and updated Master Bath and custom touches that you just have to see in person.
The condo was furnished but the "softer" touches of a home were with their owners out of state. Take a look:
The entry was not very inviting and small. … (28 comments)
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boca raton home staging: Staging the House that Wouldn't Stop otherwise known as the Never-ending House. - 03/08/11 07:13 PM
Staging the House that wouldn't stop..,otherwise known as the Never-ending house. In a previous post I spoke of my 8000sq foot house that I had the opportunity to stage. This is the first time I needed two items in my staging kit that I'd not needed before:
Roller Blades and a Walkie Talkie!
This is a beautiful home on a lake in West Boca Raton Fl on a Cul-de-Sac in a gated community. Unfortunately the tough times have hit all economic ranks and this house is under foreclosure. Lights and mirrors were removed as well as some of the appliances.
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