Professional Staging Services: Get Help Sprucing Up Your House for Quick Sale!

Over all these years, you have maintained your house very well. You have repaired what needed to be repaired. You should be proud of your abode. The time has come to sell it and move into a bigger and better house. You may have very few ideas in terms of getting it ready for the market. Now enters a professional stager who can help you walk the tight and hectic ropes of cleaning, dressing up the house for sale.

These days, more and more housing developments and builders are using the services of a professional home stager. Having been around for quite some, I can attest to the difference that a professional stager can make to the overall appearance of a home. As a seller, you don't want any headache, and difficulty selling the house. Time is of the essence for man people. Between work, the kids' school and extra-curricular activities, not much time is left to dedicate to the cleaning and preparation of the house. Many homeowners who are selling their home end up using a cleaning service to get a leg up. But that's not the end of the preparation. You will need to add your own touch up to the house. All you need to do is be able to show and present your house in the best light possible. After all, a house that is hard to show is a house you'll have a hell of time selling. Who wants to go there?

Home sellers can get a staging action plan, a consulation report from a stager for his or her price. It usually runs in the $80 to $100 per hour depending on your market and location. It goes without saying that the booming housing market of the Bay Ara, Southern California, Miami and Colorado may have its own price. Also, the more reknown the stager, the more he/she will commend. Experience does count even in this field.

Hire a consultant or stager and Maximize your profit!

To stage a home, any stager will recommend the four C's: Clean, Clutter, Color and Confirm.
If you want to do it on your own, go from the outside to the interior of your house. Consider touching up the paint, replacing the dirty and soiled carpet, moving a few pieces of furniture around, decluttering and giving an open air of space and visibility.

Here's a cheat sheet that will help get a leg up or a head start:

1. Pack away out of season clothes to make closets appear bigger.
3. PAINT! PAINT! PAINT! Neutral colors.
4. Keep countertops, tabletops clean and clear.
5. Depersonalize home by removing photos, mementos and literature.
6. Make cosmetic repairs – replace worn fixtures (bathroom, kitchen, lighting, doorknobs), peeling wallpaper, broken tile, wet spots in basement or ceiling, etc)
7. Make functional repairs – fix drippy faucets, sticking doors, loose toilets etc.
8. Stage dining room table (plates, crystal, mats, napkins, flowers etc)
9. Stage living room – (flowers on table, conventional decorations etc)
10. Polish wood floors, clean carpet.
11. Elbow grease. Use lots of this product. Clean and declutter until you get tired. Then, start all over again.
12. Apply the advice of the professional stager to your home and see the difference.

Good luck selling your house!

In the end, once you feel comfortable with the looks of the house, you'll know it's time to put it on the market.