What is staging Your Home To Sell?
The new popular concept of home staging is simply making your home look good so you can get a better price in a shorter time on the market. The concept can run counter to the usual approach of home design. Usually the aim of interior design is to make the home stylish while emphasizing the owners’ personal tastes. In staging the aim is to make the home look as neutral as possible so that the buyers can imagine themselves living there, no matter how different their tastes may be from that of the sellers. Staging is also accentuating the positive and distracting the eyes of potential buyers from the unfavorable features of the home.
Staging is not to be taken as a critique of the homeowners tastes. Rather it is about selling the house quickly for a good price. It is not personal! The goal of staging is to put a “house’s best foot forward” and give it the gloss of amarketable commodity. Staging your home to sell will assure that your home will appeal to many not a few.Why Stage Your Home to Sell?
Can you sell your home without “staging” it to sell? Yes, however, even in the best markets, having important staging steps taken care of will help see your home much sooner and closer to your suggested price. Perspective buyers should see the “bones” of the property and not be distracted by clutter, personal items or unusual color schemes.
The evidence about how well staging works isn’t just anecdotal. A study conducted in 2004 by the National Association of Realtors showed that staged homes sold 50 per cent faster than non-staged homes. And, in 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported that in a moderate market, prices of staged homes increased from two to the per cent.
How To Stage Your Home.
How do you begin the process of staging your home for the optimum look? How do you decide what to spend your time, energy and money on? Where are you better off holding back on improvements? What are the most important cosmetic improvements a homeowner can make to prepare a property for sale? KCI Interiors offers services to help you answer these and many other questions. KCI Interiors also offers hands on services to help you work through this process. As always, the initial consultation is free. What do you have to lose? Call today.
Staging Services Offered By KCI Interiors:
Free Initial Consultation
KCI Interiors will meet the homeowner’ at the home that is to be staged. If after discussing our services, the decision is to not move forward with KCI Interiors, there is no charge for this meeting.
Staging Consultation
If you decide to move forward with KCI’s staging services, we will either move forward that day to complete the actual staging consultation or make an appointment for another day that is more convenient for you. The staging Consultation requires an inside and outside walk through of the entire home. From the information obtained from the walk through, an evaluation report will be completed with suggested items that should be taken care of before the home goes on the market. Upon completion, this report will be presented to the homeowners’.
Task Planning and Implementation
If the homeowners choose, they will hire KCI Interiors to move forward with the items on the report. Working in partnership with the homeowners’, KCI Interiors will then establish a plan for implementing the tasks suggested in the evaluation report. KCI Interiors will offer hands on staging services where appropriate. This may include helping to reduce clutter or simply rearranging furniture for a more open look. Other staging jobs suggested on the evaluation report may require KCI Interiors to obtain estimates from professional contractors. Each item to be completed requires the approval of the homeowners’.
How Much Does it Cost?
Prices vary depending on the staging services required as well as the number of rooms to be staged. Each project will be priced accordingly and will be discussed with the homeowners’ at the initial consultation meeting.
Call now for your free initial consultation!
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