Services
Because you have decided to sell your home, your ultimate goal is to attract every potential buyer who walks through your door. Naturally a home over time suffers from “wear and tear”. If you want to claim the maximum sale price for your home it needs to be presented clean, clutter free and look like a display home. This need is not to improve the home for the current owner, but to make it appealing to those buyers on the way into the home.
The processes involved in “staging” a home for sale are relatively simple. Only a few steps need to be taken involving a minimum, monetary cost.
What steps and services are involved in Home Staging?
CONSULTATION
A consultation and viewing of the property will be required. The consultation will focus on what is needed to enhance first impressions for the buyer. Our aim is to look for things that will detract from a potential sale. This generally will include areas of clutter, cleanliness, tired soft furnishings and colour schemes. Home Staging by Anne has a small inventory of soft furnishings available. If new soft furnishings are desired, then Home Staging by Anne will shop for you.
A consultation will take between 1 to 2 hours to complete, depending on the area. This includes a thorough walk through of the property taking note of every room and looking for anything that will detract from the sale of the property.
Then the choice is yours. You can either work on your own with the advice given to you by Home Staging by Anne, or use Home Staging by Anne to enhance your property for you by turning it into a display home. After the consultation, you are not obliged to continue on with the service if you feel you can do all the things suggested yourself.
If you choose to continue with the staging of your property for an Open House inspection, then further services are incorporated these include:
DE-CLUTTERING - Home Staging will come in with a couple of boxes (which are complimentary) for you to put away the items discussed during the initial consultation that need to be put away for the Open House.
Because you want potential buyers to notice your house not your belongings, this is a perfect time to start boxing your collection of treasures around the house. This will help you get ready and give you a head start towards your impending move. Home Staging by Anne will organise to have further boxes delivered to your home and organise storage if required. You will be invoiced by the storage company separately to Home Staging by Anne.
REARRANGING FURNITURE or ROOM EDITING - Sometimes by just moving a few pieces of furniture around a room, or from another room, can open up spaces and bring a whole new look to the home. Often rooms can get overcrowded with things you don’t need. If a room feels spacious and not crammed full of too much furniture, it can be a very appealing selling point.
CLEANING - There is nothing more appealing than a clean and spotless house. If time is precious and you can’t find enough hours in the day to present your house properly, Home Staging by Anne can organise a professional house cleaning service to help you out. If carpets or windows need cleaning or if the house needs a wash, Home Staging by Anne will organise that as well.
ORGANISING - If you don’t think a buyer is going to look into your wardrobes, pantry or oven – think again. If you haven’t had time to straighten up shoes, clothes, towels and pantry items, Home Staging by Anne will work with you and advise on how and where to put things to achieve an organised cupboard.
KERB APPEAL - If any landscaping services are required, Home Staging by Anne will organise a garden service for you.
ENSURE PERFECT PRESENTATION ON OPEN DAY - On the day of your Open House, Home Staging by Anne will come back to your property and do a walk through to ensure your home is perfectly presented. At this time, we will bring in fresh flowers which will help enhance the visual impact that has been created. This service is complimentary and will need to be done half an hour before you open your door to prospective buyers.
REMEMBER - FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE EVERYTHING!
*Note: REPAIRS - Any small repair work should be done before you put your house on the market. If things don’t work properly (e.g. dropped gates, wardrobe doors) or need replacing, a buyer will feel instantly bothered and focused on what’s wrong with the property instead of what’s right.