If you are selling your home during the Christmas season, it can be challenging to know how to “stage” your home.  It may be helpful to think about how a department store decorates to appeal to the largest percentage of their customers.  This year, don’t bring out the homemade ornaments, blow up yard decorations or large nativity scenes.  A tree is fine but keep decorations simple and color coordinated.  Also make sure that all Christmas decor is packed up by January 2nd.  If your online photos have Christmas decor in them, make sure to have them replaced by the first week of January.  However, you can keep a pot of greens on your front steps, just remove any ornaments or red bows you might have in them.

So many of the homes built in the 50’s and 60’s have these little walls right inside the entry that were used as planters…..with dirt and real plants!  Most homeowners don’t want to deal with that mess, so look at this creative way one of our clients spruced it up for selling her home:

Beautiful little rocks with votive candles give it a clean, fresh use!

Introducing……

…..a long awaited technological advance in the home staging industry.  We are in the process of developing a web-based application called Bel Kay Staging that allows Home Stagers and Realtors to give instant, detailed advice on ways for sellers to prepare their homes for sale.  They will be able to use a tablet to walk through the home and quickly prepare a report that contains all the information sellers need including what to remove from rooms, what to add, updates that need to be make and much more.

 

For all of the details, a video describing the project and for your chance to participate in finishing the project, visit this website! 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bel-kay-staging