5 Home Staging Tips

Is It Good to Rent Furniture for Home Staging?

Tip #1: If the Room has No Furniture or the Furniture is Worn, Consider Renting Furniture

Home staging is all about restyling a home to sell quickly and for more money, whether you are in a slow market or a hot real estate market. Home staging is arranging furniture or renting furniture and decor accessories to showcase a home for sale. If you are selling your home, you want to help buyers picture themselves living in it. Home staging is one of the best ways to do that, helping to make your place stand out in online searches, shine during open houses and secure competitive offers sooner. Here are some tips to help you play up your home’s assets and downplay its faults.

In this Aurora, Ontario living room, the furniture was rented except for the bookcase and sheers. The original furniture was scratched and old, so I rented contemporary furniture in a warm-off white colour. Rental furniture also allows you to rent updated furniture that will appeal to more buyers. Since it appeals to more buyers, more buyers will fall in love with the home and want to buy it.

Tip # 2 The Living Room is the Most Important Room to Stage

This Aurora, Ontario home was staged in July, 2021 and sold 5 days later! It received multiple offers and sold over asking. Home staging and using rental furniture worked! Which rooms are the most important to stage, though? According to the NAR (National Association of Realtors:

“Staging the living room was found to be most important for

buyers (46 percent), followed by staging the master

bedroom (43 percent).

NAR Report of 2021

Renting furniture for the living room is, therefore, a good investment. It is often the first room that potential buyers view. So making a good first impression by renting furniture for the living room and home staging the living room is important.

Tip #3 Declutter and Remove Heavy Drapes And Non White Sheers

As these before and after photos above show, home staging changed the appearance of the living room. Certain items in the room were removed. These items included: the heavy drapes, end tables, and decor on them. The white sheers were left. If your room has white sheers, they are ok. But heavy drapes and coloured drapes need to be removed. 

Tip #4 Paint Walls a Neutral Colour Like White

The living room had orange walls with a feature wall painted in orange and white stripes. The first two photos below show how the orange walls looked like. I suggested that the walls of the living room be painted all white. It was painted white with a red undertone. The white paint lightens and brightens the room further. The following photos show the before areas of the living room. The third photo is the after photo of the living room. 

Many buyers coming to look at your property may not appreciate the wall colour. Most buyers prefer neutral painted walls because it means they do not need to paint a room colour they do not like when they move in. As a result, more buyers will be interested in a house with a living room painted a neutral colour such as white, gray, or beige. If possible, all rooms though should be painted with a neutral colour.

Notice that most of the books on the bookshelf were removed except books that were predominately white. The bookshelf was also moved so that a sofa could be placed in the spot instead. Learn more about bookcase home staging by clicking on the following link. https://lynteriors.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/how-to-decorate-a-home-office-part-2-bookcase-decorating-tips-included/

Buyers want to picture themselves relaxing or entertaining in the home’s living room. Therefore, place the sofa in the room in view of the entranceway. The buyer can see it as a focal point when they view the room. Now they will imagine themselves relaxing and entertaining in the living room and begin falling in love with the house.

Tip # 5 Layer in Warm Accessories

Add some accent pillows to the sofa, and toss a throw over the corner of the chair for some extra luxury and comfort. These additions are small but have a subconscious effect on buyers that make them feel more at ease in a space.

Add greenery

Bring life and energy to the room with faux plants. On the bookcase, there is a small faux plant on a stand on the bookcase shelf in this living room, for example. Planters and flowers make your room look more inviting too.

Create vignettes using the rule of three

A vignette is a group of eye-catching objects that set the tone for a room. On the end table, the chrome table lamp with glass orbs, the white journal, and the wood orb make up a vignette in the staged living room above. Groupings of one or three are the most pleasing to the eye.

Does Home Staging Work?

Statistics Proving Home Staging Works

A home stager needs to assess what kind of vision the buyer will want to see when they walk through that door. It’s all about creating that lifestyle vision that the specific buyer for that home desires! The good news is that according to the 2021 home staging statistics collected by NAR, home stagers are creating that vision for buyers. The National Association of Realtors Research Group or NAR put out a “Profile of Home Staging Report.” They survey thousands of real estate agents on the benefits of home staging. 

“Eighty-two percent of buyers’ agents said staging a home

made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a

future home.”

NAR

Help Selling My Home

According to this same 2021 NAR report, 44% of the buyer’s agents said that staging increased the dollar value offered by 1 to 15%. Staging your home to sell is proven to increase your sale price up to 15%, so it’s worth your time to evaluate your house room-by-room and decide what changes to make. If you live in the GTA or Toronto and need home staging help contact Home on Stage at 416-721-6217. Click on the link for more information about Home On Stage. https://homeonstage.wordpress.com/

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