Get the Facts About Home Staging – The Winch Walton Team Way
Using “home staging” as a tool to sell your home is a fairly recent occurrence in the last decade. It has been slowly introduced more and more by real estate teams as the best way to show your home and sell it quickly.
Is home staging really necessary to sell your home? Can’t you just make sure your home is clean and tidy and paint the walls white or beige and you are good to go?
We all like a bargain and sometimes it pays if we do some of the work ourselves. Sometimes this works and sometimes not. When it comes to home staging it has been proven that this is the best way to sell, but let’s weigh the facts about what home staging is all about first. We have listened to your questions on home staging and here are the facts.
You only need to stage a vacant property.
While a vacant property is a clean canvas for all home stagers, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is the only way to go. When you have your own furniture and accessories there is already an ambience that has been created. Often most of your own furniture, curtains etc. is used and this also creates the atmosphere that a family lives there and is happy there.
I will try and sell my home myself and then if that doesn’t work, I will try home staging.
If your home has been listed to sell without home staging and doesn’t sell, you may be missing buyers who didn’t see everything your home has to offer. Especially if your home has been listed for months — your listing will become stale. Why take this chance? You are competing with a lot of beautifully staged homes online and you definitely do not want to be overlooked. Don’t take that risk and lose out on selling your home.
Do I really need to stage a small house?
Just like with a larger home you definitely need to stage a smaller home. A small home if staged properly can create more space and brightness. Properly staged rooms can make them appear larger and more inviting. You don’t want to have a house that looks crowded and even smaller if it is not staged properly.
Staging is really only decluttering your home.
Definitely decluttering is one of the ways to stage your home but it is not all that home staging is about. It is about knowing how to place furniture and accessories. You need to have an eye for colour so that every room is done tastefully and beautifully. Let’s face it most of us can’t visualize how to stage our home. It is best to leave that to the professionals.
Staging is too cold. Everything is beige.
Though it is true that neutral colours are best to show your home; gone is the day where all your walls are beige. Neutral colours have come a long way and neutral whites with touches of light colour or greys are used throughout as neutral décor now. Adding a splash of colour on a feature wall will make your room stand out and definitely make a statement.
Too Expensive!
If you wanted to hire a professional home stager in Ottawa to stage your properly can cost you from $1500 and up and that may not include charges by the day for furniture rental etc. This can actually put a real dent in your budget if this cost is on top of your real estate fees.
The Winch Walton Team understands the cost of selling your home and that is why we stage your home for free. Yes, that is a fact! We understand your dilemma that you want your home to look its best but you also don’t want to pay an arm or a leg to get it done. After all, you are competing with many beautiful homes out there that are staged.
The Winch Walton Team can help you with all your home staging and selling needs. With over 15 years’ experience in real estate and free home staging our Winch Walton Team has only succeeded due to our exceptional work ethics, professionalism and attention to detail. Contact us today.