Ruchi Verma Every homeowner thrives on making their house beautiful and immaculate. They style it, based on their preference and comfort, decorating it with the finest fixtures and furniture. Regardless of their efforts in making it as appealing as possible, it is still not staged. Decorating their homes doesn’t mean they already consider it home staging.
Staging a property for sale is no longer uncharted territory. However, it is a technique that has earned impressive views in a very competitive market. Several property sellers are still unfamiliar with property styling and usually get confused with home decorating projects. Hence, they immediately resort to DIY and not think of hiring a professional home stager. When one puts their property for sale, it is imperative to change the look to make it an attractive house to potential buyers. Essentially, original homeowners should emotionally detach themselves from the house and allow the professionals to transform it into a new one.
Make The Property Look Interesting To The Buyers
The property should convey something that potential buyers can consider their own. Some sellers tend to bring the staging technique on a personal level. These houses are personal but selling them and living in them are two different things. Every home presents the occupants’ life-sized representation of their experiences, such as their travels, music equipment they love, and any beautiful wall art that they may wish to add, such as neon signs (check out these fun facts here), pictures of their family, or special memories.
These things should convey to the people who live in that place. The aim of staging is to convert the property into an interesting and enticing house that every potential homeowner couldn’t afford to pass up. So, it is important that you take the time to think about what these things are so that the process can be made easier for everyone.
Eliminates Clutter
Generally, living every day involves making a mess too. The small stack of unopened mails, house keys, and loose coins right after the cordless phone will eventually accumulate more clutter. Even in bathrooms where most soaps, lotions, and hygiene products are stored and left all over the place will make the entire room look like a total mess. Every homeowner has their kind of clutter.
Unfortunately, these are so unappealing to the eyes of the buyers, especially if they’re the ones with OCD. Every piece found inside the house may not be what the potential occupant wants. Hence, allowing a property styling professional to intervene can make the clutter go away. They may not literally be dumped in the bin, but perhaps some of them will be rearranged at the right place. These expert stagers will know the much-preferred arrangement of furniture and fixture in every corner of the house. Some of these designs may not be hitting the exact choice, but occupants will consider them livable and decent.
Don’t Blame The Home Stager
The object of staging is not to change the house into a five-star hotel. Some homeowners may be too unrealistic and think the property can be transformed into the world’s eighth wonder. Their tasks would be moving the objects and perhaps adding and getting rid of some items to change the appearance. This may also mean some things can go to the storage or the trash. Either way, it should not offend homeowners. They should also remember that they may experience a bit of inconvenience during the staging process. Unless they’ve already moved to another place and the property is left unoccupied for staging, then this shouldn’t cause any issue to both parties.
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What I love about your posts is that they are all practical and deals with topics that are not seen in regular posts yet searched the most. Love this choice of topic. Now.adays everyone wants their own home to be perfectly done. But are not aware of what to do..
I can get property developer help on a daily basis. I have three little kids and my house is always a mess. If someone visits that person won’t return ever.. This idea is classic. If we are looking to sell the house and can beautify it , this is a wow opportunity
Thanks a lot for the post. It is helpful in a larger scale. Property developer hiring is all the terms unknown to laymen but needed. Thank you so much for sharing.
All the three points are important. we keep so much in the house from unutilized utensils to old furniture, eleminating clutter is very important point.
yes nowadays it is not easy to satisfied the demand of property buyers and there are many factors that need to be consider. specially clutter is main problem in many household and it surly give an unpleasant experience to property buyer. property styling with professionals is really great idea to enhance look and value of property.
Professional services are always a great help in any field. Clutter over the years is definitely a big cause of concern for me. A good post Ruchie.
Property styling with professionals is definitely a great Idea as they understand the customers and their requirements due to experience in this field. They think from a practical point of view without being too emotional though they do consider emotional quotient of the customer too.
Good points! The condition and upkeep of a place plays an important role in its sale. Professionals know the tricks of the trade and can style properties perfectly from the customer’s point of view.
I didn’t know about staging the home for sale. This seems like a new concept in India,but I agree making a home look desirable to the new buyers can be a great way to help them visualize their life there.
Interesting. Never heard of the term home staging! Is it the same as interior decoration? Or is home staging specific to selling properties?
That is an interesting concept, I am hearing about property styling services for the first time. But it sounds perfect for homeowners looking to sell their property. The reasons you have stated do make sense.
My kids keep my home as messy as possible and every time that I tidy up it goes back to where I started from. Property stylers can definitely be helpful when I wld liek to move away somewhere else. Those are se great pointers.
Considering the way my house is always messy, I feel so in need of a planner. ? But on a serious note, proper planning surely leads to full utilisation of space and turns into a smart investment.
Extremely innovative topic for me. I have designed and planned my own home but I have never heard of a home stager. Absolutely liked reading about it. It’s a great post for homeowners.
It is important to consider property styling by professionals. Buyers may have various demands and it is really impossible to fulfill all these without professional help.
Agree to your post. Like every thing we wanna buy must be appealing to our eyes likewise when the buyer is buying a house, it should appeal to his\her eye too. Making use of a professional service to make your house appealing is the best and the right way to go about it.
Property styling is something that can be done in all cities except Mumbai. Here the build up is so small and carpet area even smaller. Hardly some space is left even if you start from scratch.
Professional help in styling of the property is a great way to make customers look at all the detailing and can answer all the questions arising to it.
Staging homes actually a brilliant idea I have seen so many houses are not getting sold only because the the visitor only sees the clutter and not the promise of the property
What an interesting read !! We are just planning to relocate and reading this is really helpful. I agree that professionals can help us design the house by bringing creativity and using the house to the optimum.
Very well put up post Ruchi. I didn’t know that such stylists exist. I’m sure they would make life so much easier. Decluttering is something I keep doing all year round.
I agree that professional should be employed for home renovation as home owners can be unrealistic about how the basic home can be turned about.