Home Staging is all about the feeling. The feeling or mood created for a target buyer.
I remember a few years ago, my children and I traveled to Ireland. The only experiences of Ireland I had up until then were pictures of the beautiful country and the Irish Rovers. I do remember how listening to an Irish Band in an Irish Pub, really added to the experience.
When we were traveling around Ireland, we visited some of the tourist places like the Blarney Stone Castle and yes we kissed the blarney stone. While we were visiting a gift store we decided to buy a CD of traditional Irish music to listen to in our rental car as we traveled around Ireland. It was amazing how different traveling felt while listening to this music. As we traveled the “Ring of Kerry” along cliffs and narrow roads lined with trees that joined above the road to form a tunnel, we listened to our music. Every once in while we had to stop to let the sheep go across the road. The hydrangeas were in abundance in all the gardens we passed and were the deepest blue I have ever seen and I didn’t know that yuccas grew as tall as the sky.
When we arrived back home and tried to listen to the same CD, it just didn’t have the same feel while sitting in the family room here in Canada.
Good home staging really creates a feeling for a prospective buyer. Whether it is a family feeling using toys or a DVD on a coffee table or even a game to represent family time together. Cheese and crackers, wine bottles can represent entertaining friends and soft music can represent relaxing in your home or give a spa feeling in a bathroom. All these elements help buyers emotionally move into a home for sale. The mood should appeal to the target buyer to get it sold.
Karen Hubert
Home Staging Solutions
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