Home Staging…THIS is Why You’re Asked to Remove Personal Photos
You want buyers to spend time looking at your space and NOT your pictures.
Home Staging…THIS is Why You’re Asked to Remove Personal Photos
Most agents now understand and embrace the idea of staging a home for sale. Some have taken staging courses…often offered for CE credit. The general public is also aware of the concept of making a good first impression via home staging.
One of the first tasks agents and stagers give their sellers is this…remove all personal photos!
This is true, but do you know why? Can you tell your clients why you’re asking them to do this? Let me show you…
~You want buyers to look at your space and see themselves in it.
With your family photos and pictures of Rover all around, your buyers are “visitors” or guests. It becomes hard for them to picture your house as their home. So, instead of seeing the home as a possibility…they are being a polite “guest.”
~You want buyers to spend time looking at your space and NOT your pictures.
True story…we were viewing a home to buy when we moved to Northern VA. In one home, my agent and I found ourselves forgetting about looking at the house because we were on the staircase staring at the large family picture as we tried to determine who everyone was…and “oh how cute!”
Another home belonged to a former NFL assistant coach. Well… you know how I am about football. All of his photos and certificates were on the wall in the study. Can you imagine how long I was in that room!
~Too many can break the “rule” of staging.
In staging a home, you don’t want your buyers doing the eye dance. That means that instead of focusing on a focal point in the room and drawing the buyer in, they don’t know where to look.
~If you have children living at home, remove their pictures and anything with their names on it.
You have no idea who will be viewing your home, so do not give them your child’s name and photo!
And THAT is why!
Kathy Streib
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