Home Staging Tips

Friday, May 11, 2012 and I was meeting with a home owner to discuss staging her home for resale. Her home is absolutely lovely, in a desperate reach to find something wrong I suggested that she refold the towels in her linen closet so they would be tidy when you opened the door. "When buyers open doors," I said, "and they find towels folded, precisely, just so, when they open closets and they find clothes hung on identical hangers, just so, they feel like they're buying from a persnickety homeowner and they trust that the meticulous attention to detail carries over into everything, mechanical, and maintenance, and usually it does."

In an effort to help her with some staging tips, and this sort of seller needs no help, the house is immaculate, I dug around online and found this absolutely brilliant offering with a share button. Thank you twice Julea, once for writing the piece and again for sharing it.

10 Home Staging Tips to Make Your Listing Look like a Model Home 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Interior stylist Julea Joseph produces the blog “Reinventing Space” and is a home stager and interior designer based in Chicago. Joseph launched her home design business, Reinventing the Space, in 1999. She also stages model homes for builders and has appeared on HGTV’s “My First Place.” Learn more about Joseph at her web site and blog.

Realtor Magazine has some great online material too. Home Staging Guide: http://realtormag.realtor.org/home-and-design/staging-tips here you'll find several links to articles that, if you're preparing your home for sale would make sense to peruse. Some of them will be interesting, as with anything, take what you want and leave the rest. I saw one about curb appeal, I think I'll pop back over there and read it.

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