Why Home Staging Matters

Staging your home is one of the best things you can do when you are selling a house. Not only will staging make your home look great, but it will also help it sell faster and for more money. When you hire a professional home stager, they take your house to the next level. These professionals assess every room and can stage each space to show off the most critical assets, resulting in happy potential homebuyers and lots of offers. Keep reading to learn about all of the benefits of choosing to stage your home.

Gives a Good First Impression

A homebuyer will quickly decide if your house is right for them or not, so it’s essential to make an excellent first impression. Home stagers help make a good impression by neutralizing your space and ensuring it’s a place where many people can envision themselves living. Stagers help remove personal items like pictures and toys that detract from this. They also make sure your home is well-decorated, furnished in a way that adds space, and is spotless so that buyers can solely focus on the big picture.

Makes Your Home Feel Spacious

Nothing can make a room feel small as quickly as clutter. Too many (or overly large) pieces of furniture can make a room feel cramped, even when it’s a decently sized room. More often than not, the real problem is the abundance of stuff we collect in our homes. When you’re living in your home, you become used to having all of your belongings in each room. But when you are looking to buy a home, those belongings become overwhelming and make the entire home feel stuffed. Buyers look at that and think, “well, if their stuff is filling up every room, my stuff won’t fit either.”

When you stage your home, all of the clutter and unnecessary furniture is removed. Removing clutter clears the room, makes it look larger, and allows buyers to imagine themselves in the home. Stagers are experts at picking out what pieces of furniture and décor look best in each room and take away any distractions that may take away from the room. They make the space appealing to a wide array of buyers and make your home one that anyone would want to live in.

Accentuates the Best Features

Home staging is one of the most successful ways to highlight your home’s best features. Professional stagers can bring buyer’s focus toward the big selling points in your home and away from other aspects that may be less sellable. By staging a room, you can show the full potential of the space and pull focus toward what makes your home truly unique – what sets it apart from the other homes on the market.

Tells a Story

A good home stager won’t just sell your home; they will sell a lifestyle. When staging a home, it’s vital to place potential buyers in their own vision of what life would be like in your home. They should be able to see themselves cooking in the kitchen, hosting events in the backyard, enjoying the living room, and so on. Your stager’s best asset will be to tell the story of life within your home, not just the sellable physical features.

Staged Homes Sell Faster and For More Money

Now for, arguably, the biggest reason home staging matters – it helps you sell your home faster and for more money. Studies have shown that buyers give more attention to staged homes over those that are not. According to Forbes.com:

• Staged homes sell for 17% more on average than non-staged homes

• 95% of staged homes sell in 11 days or less, which is statistically 87% faster than non-staged homes

Typically, all Chicago home stagers charge per month for the number of rooms they have staged until your listing sells. A massive value I bring to my clients is that I work with a home stager who only charges a one-time, flat fee based on the number of rooms staged. This helps your home sell faster and for more money without recurring costs for you as the seller. Now that you know all of the benefits of home staging let’s discuss how we can get you set up to stage your own home.