If you’re an Ottawa-area homeowner looking to sell your home quickly (and at the right price), you may want to have a help you with professional home staging.
Many homeowners underestimate the selling power of replacing clutter or outdated furniture with clean, modern décor and design. Home staging helps paint a picture of your home in its “ideal” state for potential buyers, which in turn can motivate a purchase.
Wondering if it’s worth it? Here are just some of the benefits of professional home staging.
- De-personalization: You accumulate many items tailored to your specific taste over years of living in your home. However, potential buyers visiting your home may have different tastes, and staging provides a neutral palette to help them imagine themselves living in your home.
- Beautification: Professional home stagers know how to use their décor and design expertise to create spaces that are universally appealing to the eye. This can get you more views online (and more in-person visitors).
- Elimination of clutter: While your home may be clean of dirt and debris, you can still have bulky furniture and decorations that block certain features of your home. Home stagers clear away this kind of ‘clutter’ to create space that’s more aesthetically pleasing.
- Modernization: Over time, you get used to furniture and décor in your home that becomes outdated. Home staging can transform an older home (or home with outdated furniture) into an updated home with modern appeal.
- Visualization: Potential buyers sometimes have a hard time visualizing themselves in a home, but having a few carefully-chosen pieces can spark their imagination. Visitors can then make connections between staged furniture and décor and their own items.
- Highlighting of features: Professional home staging can highlight and call attention to attractive features of your home. Without staging, these features might otherwise not be noticed.
- Maximization of space: Even attractive furniture and décor may not make the best use of your space. A home stager with a professional eye for design can maximize your square footage and make your house actually appear larger.
- Specialization: Your home stager can work with your to target a specific audience or buyer, matching décor with what those buyers typically search for. Or, your home stager can match décor to your home’s style and price range to better sell your home ‘package.’
Home staging can be a powerful tool no matter what price range your home is selling in. While it’s an extra expense upfront, it can more than pay for itself in your selling price and shorten your home’s time on the market.
