Perfecting Your House for an Open House in Needham, Massachusetts

Prior to listing your house for sale, consider a proven way to sell your house: well-planned home staging. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and more offers. And you should certainly decide on professional home staging if you need a fast home sale.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging focuses on your home's presentation to buyers while showing off the details of your home with strategically placed furniture and pictures so that your home looks more spacious and buyers can envision living in your home.

Prepping your house for an Open House doesn't have to be an annoying experience. At times, it's a thrilling and creative activity. Together, we'll work to get an exceptional bid for your house. Start with this home staging advice and you'll notice that your house sits fewer weeks on the market :

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the exterior of your home, or your curb appeal. Take a fresh look at the exterior of your house from the view of a passerby. What do you notice first? What unique features seem to fade into the background?Knowing this assists us in deciding what steps we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your home. If your home's exterior isn't inviting with touched up paint and colorful garden plants it's time to get those things done. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and raise your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your house seem to say, "Hello From Your New Welcome Home" to a buyer? Walking-through your home with a buyer's eye, I'll advise you of changes that enhance Open House appeal. I'll tell you reduce the effect of things that give the impression of clutter. Counter tops should be neatly arranged. Brick-a-brack, souvenirs, family photos, and kids' drawings should get moved out of sight. I can help you simplify the decor of house. Unsightly or busy areas make your home feel smaller and buyers have a harder time seeing themselves calling your property "home".

I know exactly what a room's best characteristics are and how to highlight them. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be put in storage, rooms that need new paint, rugs needing to get changed, fixtures that could use polishing, and any other improvement that can quickly be made to positively influence the sale.

Buyers' agents know that their clients expect a house that invites them inside. Everything that could be "offensive" should get moved out in order for your property to have likability while on the market.

Setting the Stage

At every showing, we want to capture buyers' attention. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like draw back curtains and change light bulbs where needed to show off your home. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music playing softly and assure a pleasant scent circulates from every area. We'll add cozy-looking bedspreads, and place pillows on your love seat and bed. Buyers should feel like your current house has the potential to be.