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Small Houses Need Love Too! Home Staging Minneapolis MN

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Home Stager with Rooms With Style

Small Houses Need Love Too! Home Staging Minneapolis MN 

It is so easy to ignore the staging of small houses, thinking that Home Staging Minneapolis MN is only for the large expensive homes but that is SO not true. 

It is my belief that it is just as important, if not more so, to stage the small houses.

Let me show you this great example of a small house in south Minneapolis. 736 total square feet. Yup...that's it. Many apartments are larger. 

One small dining area:

 

Home Staging DR Before

 

One small bedroom:

 

Home Stager Minneapolis Bedroom Before

 

One small added on room to the front of the house (what is it?):

 

Minneapolis Home Staging Before

 

And one very small living space. With a 4' traffic flow needed to get to the bedroom and bath, it leaves less that 6' to the hearth of the fireplace to create a living area for conversation, TV watching etc. 

How would the buyer view this empty living space??

  

Vacant Home Staging Minneapolis

 

 

Minneapolis Home Stager

 

Well let's show you how the buyer actually saw this space.......

 

Dining Room has room for a table and you can still walk around it:

 

 Minneapolis MN Home Staging

The bedroom is big enough for a Queen size bed and two nightstands:

 

St Paul MN Home Staging

 

This 'added on room' shows duel functions which is so important in a small one bedroom house. It can be an office yet a day bed for that guest.

 

St Paul MN Home Stager

 

And how about that very tight living area......  Warm and cozy and plenty of room now for sure! 

 

Vacant Home Staging St Paul MN 

Both the homeowner and the Realtor realized the importance of staging this small space and it paid off. It hit the market on a Saturday, an open house on Sunday and a full price offer came in Monday!! 

 

Minneapolis Vacant Home Staging

 

So show those small homes some love too! They need it even more. 

 

 

 

 

Jordon Wheeler
The Jordon Wheeler Group - Fairburn, GA
J W Group Real Estate Sales and Service

Hi Shar,

Awesome success story with a small space.  The interior looks more spacious with the staging.  Best of GREAT success to you in 2014!

Feb 02, 2014 10:04 PM
Winston Heverly
Coldwell Banker Access Realty - South Macon, GA
GRI, ABR, SFR, CDPE, CIAS, PA

Shar, what a well timed post, I have enjoyed it and will look forward to your next blog.

Feb 02, 2014 10:20 PM
Roger D. Mucci
Shaken...with a Twist 216.633.2092 - Euclid, OH
Lets shake things up at your home today!

In the inimitable words of Carly Simon....."nobody does it better".....well done Shar, you made that small home look amazing and that's why it had an offer so quickly.

Feb 02, 2014 10:35 PM
Shar Sitter
Rooms With Style - Minneapolis, MN
Home Staging and Redesign Minneapolis/ St. Paul, M

Thank you Jordan and same to  you!

Thanks Wiinston. Glad to hear it was of help to  you.

Oh I love Carly Simon Roger! And wasn't that James Bond's song? Needless to say they were thrilled with the quick sale! 

Feb 03, 2014 12:42 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Nicely done Shar!  Small spaces are just as important to define and create emotional appeal for!  Otherwise, they are seen as too small!

Feb 05, 2014 07:45 AM
David Popoff
DMK Real Estate - Darien, CT
Realtor®,SRS, Green ~ Fairfield County, Ct

So true with today's competition in home selling your local professional Realtor will go the extra mile, plus with home staging you will get better pictures, more traffic and a quicker often higher offer.

 

Feb 10, 2014 01:56 PM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

 Hello Shar ... Some great before and after shots, great work! I hope the weather is getting warmer in the mini-apple ... VB has many relatives from there and will be coming to visit them this summer. I have a home summer home in Brainerd, can't wait to go do some fishing and relaxing in the boat on the lakes!

VB

Feb 18, 2014 11:50 AM
Shar Sitter
Rooms With Style - Minneapolis, MN
Home Staging and Redesign Minneapolis/ St. Paul, M

Very small Sharon. And some smaller than others! 

Exactly David. This one was the perfect example.

I love Brainerd VB. A little golf at Maddens, some Licorice ice cream at The Chocolate Ox in Nissaw, a beer just about anywhere....

 

Feb 18, 2014 12:12 PM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

Bet this jumped into the "active with offer" column in a Minnesota minute

Feb 18, 2014 07:33 PM
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

You are a star Shar. You made this look like a dream and it looks charming and I don't focus on the size.

Feb 25, 2014 12:00 PM
Anna Dovger
Add Value Home Staging LLC, 281-704-6607 - The Woodlands, TX
Home Staging -The Woodlands, TX

You are so right Shar, small spaces deserve staging too. Nicely done. Thanx for stopping by my FB page wishing me Happy BDay. For some reason I can't reply to your msg.

Feb 26, 2014 10:39 AM
Ron Marshall
Marshall Enterprises - Saint Michael, MN
Birdhouse Builder Extraordinaire

Very well done!  This deserved a feature.  You should be so proud of yourself.

Mar 27, 2014 05:14 AM