Creating an Alluring Home

So, you’ve decided to sell your home.  If you're like most people, your home is the single biggest investment you'll ever make, and you want to get the best possible return on that investment.  Before putting it on the market, you know your home needs to look its best by making sure it’s clean and tidy.  You might even do a little decorating – say, perhaps, by adding some artwork to the walls and putting some pillows on the sofa.  Now you’re done, right?

Not quite.  While important, these basics – cleanliness, neatness and basic décor - are just the beginning.

The goal of home staging is to arrange the home in a way that enables potential buyers to imagine themselves living in the home - relaxing, entertaining friends, raising their families.  By creating a warm and inviting environment, staging allows a potential buyer to form an instant emotional attachment to your home.  Once the buyer is sold on an emotional level, your home is no longer simply a commodity to them and the price per square foot and features list are no longer as important.

What is Home Staging?

Home staging is the practice of preparing a home for market in order to sell quickly and at the highest attainable price by creating the best possible first impression. 

Why hire a Home Stager?

Once you decide to list your house, it is no longer your home, but a product for sale on the open market.  It is difficult for most people to take a step back and to see their home as it will look to a prospective buyer. 

A professional Home Stager provides a valuable outsider’s perspective, having the ability to see your home as potential buyers will see it and to arrange the home in the most broadly appealing way possible.  Perhaps most importantly, a Home Stager is trained to identify and highlight the home’s strengths in a way that the homeowner seldom can.

What does Home Staging involve?

First it is important to ensure that the home is looking its absolute best in terms of cleanliness, furniture, décor, and overall style.  But decorating your home to live in is different than staging it to sell.  A professional Home Stager will arrange the ideal amount of furniture and décor in a way that enhances 'flow' while creating an updated and stylish, yet broadly appealing look that will attract a wide variety of buyers. 

During the entire process, the Stager uses artful furniture and décor choices and arrangements that will emphasize the home’s focal points, while downplaying weaknesses.  Design vignettes can be used to create a warm and inviting atmosphere, highlight functionality, and help the prospective buyer to envision an upgraded lifestyle, ultimately encouraging the buyer to form an emotional connection with the home.

There are several levels of services available to home sellers of all needs and  budgets, from minor adjustments to more substantial makeovers, including furnishing and staging empty homes.  Contact us by e-mail or phone to arrange an in-home estimate at no cost.

Priority #1: Get them in the door! Most buyers' first impression of your home will come from MLS photos. Home staging creates alluring photos, bringing buyers in.

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The Alluring Home

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tel:505.962.2304

E-mail:caroline@thealluringhome.com

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