As a Professional Home Stager, I always recommend when selling that it's important to have furniture in every key room. Key rooms include all main living areas, kitchen and master bedrooms.
Vacant rooms are very difficult for buyers to visualize and often leave them sorely lacking in terms of connecting to the home.
In some cases understandably sellers have not gotten around to furnishing key spaces for lack of time, funds or desire to choose something - it happens! However when selling it will pose a problem should a key space remain empty.
Some key problems with vacant spaces are:
- No identifiable purpose for the space (buyers see so many houses in a day they won't remember you had a formal living, dining, den and game room if there was nothing to remember in those spaces)
- No focal point
- Scale is hard to determine (vacant rooms actually feel smaller - buyers believe their furniture will not fit)
- Flow issues may present a problem
- Minor flaws, blemishes and small cosmetic details stand out creating problems
Below is an example of a recent home staging where a key selling space was not immediately identifiable. Using what the owner's already had (no rental furniture) along with a few pieces from Home Star Staging's prop inventory (but could have easily been found elsewhere) Here's a simple cost effective way to re purpose furniture you may already own to highlight a key selling space in your home that may be lacking furniture.
Dining area before
Dining Area After
Furniture pieces used:
- "Buffet" is owner's bedroom dresser re purposed with mirror taken off
- Dining table is owner's white plastic outdoor patio table covered in a damask table cloth (legs that showed were thoroughly cleaned)
- Parson's Chairs $10 each from a garage sale and covered in cotton slipcovers on sale at Target $7.50 each. Home Star Staging's prop inventory finished the look.
Get creative with what you already own. The results may surprise you.
Home Sellers, if you're lacking vision or need some assistance in re purposing what you may already own, Home Star Staging is here for you!
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