Home Staging

Home Staging Madison Area 

The Monroe Street area of Madison, Wisconsin offers many quaint bungalows and is a location sought after by buyers seeking easy access to shops, golf, the Arboretum, Zoo and the University.   Many of these Madison area kitchens are typical eat-ins that are rich in character but are poor in offering home buyers modern updates and space.  And so, they sit simmering on the market and are ripe for home staging. By including home staging in the mix when selling these homes, seller's can dish up a quicker sale when listing their homes.

When Creative Edge Staging Solutions was called in for a consultation, I knew I needed to serve up a kitchen remedy that worked around the seller’s refusal to replace the red formica counters but would stir up buyer's interest in this home.  It was time to turn up the heat and cook up a home staging plan that did not break the bank but moved this home onto the buyers’ short list.

Before Home Staging  

Home Staging Recipe

Monroe Street Crème de la’ Sale  

Time: 8 hours

Yield:  Accepted Offer in 28 Days 

Ingredient #1   Adjust the room’s temperature by neutralizing the wall color from aqua.  Stir in Benjamin Moore’s Bleeker Beige to compliment the red counters and emphasize white cabinets.  To keep the kitchen from boiling over, the ceiling was repainted to white from aqua.

Ingredient #2  Remove the dated panel backsplash and fold in tin-look tile backsplash.  Armed with a scissors, tape measure and glue the kitchen backsplash was recipe for success and became more appealing to home buyers. 

Ingredient #3 Create more space.   The larger table was replaced with a smaller table.   Casual dinnerware replaced the formal place settings.   Home buyers no longer saw this eating area as small and crowded.   Red and silver accessories blended nicely with tin-look backsplash and the red formica counter.

After Home Staging

    After over eight months of growing stale on the Madison area market the home staging netted an offer the owner could swallow without choking.  As with all cooking recipes, it’s just a matter of adjusting the measurements, cooking time and ingredients to create a gourmet meal.  With home staging, this kitchen went from leaving a bad taste in the mouth of buyers into a kitchen pleasing to the tastebud's of buyers.  Bon Appetite!