What Would You Do in this Room?

Obviously you see the value in staging, I suggest that you hire a stager for a consulation.   Once you have had a stager work for you, you will have her/him for all of your listings. 

Your listing will sell and you will be a very popular listing agent

Hi David, you've been given some great tips here. I went and searched for Katy, TX home stagers and this one is in your area. Consultations are a very cost effective way to get a great result and it's always best to have the whole picture before we decide how we work. Good luck!

Put the TV in a bedroom or some other room, and it will be much easier to arrange.  The TV is competing with the fireplace for the focal point of the room.

David -- thanks for asking us for our humble opinions!  Probably a few of Maureen's suggestions would help and it's a pretty simple puzzle for a professional to solve, but really to get the most effective solution I would suggest hiring a Stager in your area for a consultation.  Consultations don't have to cost a lot to make a million dollar difference in your listing's presentation.  Good luck! 

David, I think you should have a professional stager come in and do their magic.

I staged a home that had a large TV and we removed it. It's very difficult to work around that big box.

Joyce

You don't know what the sellers are going to think until they are approached.

Many stagers give a free quote to the sellers and a consultation fee is relatively quite small.

Have you talked to a stager about their fees?   Or are you asking for a discount before you know what the fee is?

I'm not trying to be nasty.  What I feel that you should do is sit down for coffee with a stager and talk to them.   The stager might give you a special fee for using her/him on a regular basis.

If you were in my area I would definetley do that for your benefit and mine. Let us know what that works out.

Your sellers sem to be Not Understanding what stageing is about.   Too bad.  I've never had a client as a realtor turn it down.  Only once have a quoted a staging job and not gotten it.

Sometimes just getting the stager in the door makes a difference.

Hope it works out for you and what ever stager you work with.

Well howdy again!

You'd think I would have all these other stagers on commission.

I also think that hiring a professional stager would be a great idea.  I know of someone in your area (me) who charges $145 (flat fee) for a consultation.  Also, here on AR is Nancy Albea (also located in Katy). Don't know her fees, but her work is very nice!

Best of luck.

David,

Buyers need to be educated as to the advantage of staging their home. The last two houses I staged sold in 5 days. If you talk to a stager who can share his/her success stories and you reiterate that to your client they would see the value in staging. Good luck!

David, Congratulations

David, it is very hard to get the full story looking at two photos, but from what I see, I would remove the floral chairs and tv to another room (perhaps a small bedroom) and create a tv room.

I would take the two matching sofas and put them facing each other perpindicular to the fireplace to create a conversational area similar to the picture below.  I would also replace the picture above the fireplace with something framed in black to accent the black in the fireplace.