Staging

Roberta Birch

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Importance of Staging Your Home

Homes are traditionally priced based on square footage, bedrooms and bathrooms, condition, and location. That’s great, but staging has been left out. There are stats on staging, which have been gathered from thousands of students who become ASP (Accredited Staging Professional) certified. The stats show that 94.8 percent of ASP staged homes sell on average in 37 days or less.

You can stage without money. You have things in your home you can use to stage. The REALTOR® is the director, tap into their creativity. There are many ideas that don’t cost one dime.

First, it’s about getting the home clean. I’m talking about Q-Tip-clean inside and out. That just takes elbow grease. Second, the seller has to pack up their clutter. That doesn’t cost anything and they will have to pack up their stuff anyway. Place the boxes neatly in the garage. The next thing is buy a can of paint. Paint on sale costs next to nothing.

When it comes to the creativity in the room, let me give an example: Take a young boy’s room. The drapes are shredded, there are posters all over the walls, the dresser is scuffed. Here’s how we’d do it: Find a theme using sports equipment. Look in the garage, you might find a fishing pole, a tackle box, fishing boots, and some rope. Take the fishing pole and replace the old curtain rod. Go to the linen closet – find a twin plain sheet, hang it as a curtain and tie the rope around the center or hook it off to the side. Put the bed on an angle. Clean up the dresser, clear off the belongings, clean up the fishing tackle box and put it on top. Take down the posters, fill nail holes with chalk or white toothpaste. I’m always looking for stuff they own that we can use creatively as props. Maybe they have a fishing net we can hang creatively in the corner behind the bed?