Tehama Country Real Estate

Tehama Country Real Estate – 3 What Is Staging A Home? pricey and often difficult to find the diamond you are looking for. L Tough times mean tough solutions, and home sellers that mean business when selling their prop- erty may have to call in the experts to get noticed. Home staging is a new phenomenon that really works to separate the ordinary from the extraordi- nary and make that house for sale take center stage. Traditional open house preparations work with what they have, but the home staging operation creates with illusion what they don't have and can maximize a property's full potential. A home seller seeking accolades and attention from the buyers will do well to invest a few hun- dred dollars into a professional home stager to transform the property into a work of art. WHO ARE HOME STAGERS? A home stage professional will have a great deal of knowledge in the real estate business, and their cutting-edge advantage is that most are profession- al artists. The property for sale is their canvas, and he or she will go to work to create an illusion of larger living spaces, comfortable corners and sense of overall appeal to the home. A good home stager has a well trained eye for color, coordination, textures and spatial orientation. If you wish to sell your home as a work of art, a home stage professional is worth of every penny of the fee. THE ART OF ACCESSORIES ture settings and window treatments, the home stager will zero in on the fine details that can make a house feel like a home. From accessories to scents, the home stage artists knows just what to do to cre- ate a warm sense of space and an attractive proper- ty to the prospective buyers. Scented candles, chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven, floral arrangements and planters are all tricks of the trade to decorate with style and grace in grand fashion — the way a Hollywood set would be coordinated. ATTRACTIVE PRODUCT PLACEMENTS The home stage artist may ask you to clear away all of your bathroom products and leave the coun- tertops clean and wide open. Remove the bathroom scale, towels hanging over the shower door and everything else that does not seem inviting. et's face it; home sales are competitive, Like a five-star hotel bathroom, your home is transformed with baskets containing spa treatment oils, cinnamon fragrances, luxurious towels wrapped in ribbon, rose petals, and the list of ideas is endless to create a sumptuous environment. Regardless of the space you have to work with, your home staging professional can transform your living space into a first-class act. EXTERIOR AND GARDEN STAGING Your outdoor living space is just as important as the interior, and a good home stage artist will get your backyard in mint showroom condition. This is one part of the staging process where you will have to roll up your sleeves and participate. Be sure to clear away all the junk, any rusted items such as a lawn chair, barbecue grill, old toys, etc. Backyard landscaping and decorating can be costly to rebuild the entire area, so you may wish to use an optical illusion of a designer yard by keep- ing your colorful and fragrant accessories confined to the door and porch. Use eye-catching hanging planters, colorful bird houses, wind chimes and even cut floral arrange- ments to accent your patio table. To come up with more ideas, think as though you were designing a movie set and put those attractive objects front and center on your back porch. Alex Mason is a former real estate agent and mortgage In addition to working with open spaces, furni- broker living in Los Angeles.

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