Help Buyers Envision Themselves Living In Key Areas
Every home has unique features which might make it the perfect place for a potential buyer. Typically, areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, closets, and outdoor spaces have the most impact on home-buying decisions, and as a seller, it’s important to highlight the spaces in your home that have the ability to make a buyer fall in love.
As a leading provider of home staging services in Ankeny and the surrounding areas, our team has the right equipment, style, and expertise to make your home shine. We have helped numerous people in Ankeny, Ames, Des Moines, and the surrounding areas sell their homes by providing professional staging services, and we would love to help you as well.
In this article, we will discuss our process for helping key areas of any home shine. If you are considering staging your home for an upcoming sale, read on to learn why we’re the ideal partner.
Kitchen/Dining Areas
A home’s kitchen provides so much opportunity to make an impact and stand out from the crowd. Kitchens must be functional and aesthetically appealing at the same time, which can be a tough needle to thread for many homeowners. When we assess a kitchen area, we do so with trained eyes to understand how to make the kitchen feel bigger, express ease of use throughout the space, and make it feel welcoming. This is done by adding appropriately sized furniture with enough seating for the whole home, adding colorful accents where available, and giving buyers a sense of what it is actually like to cook, eat, and live in their new kitchen.
Bedrooms and Closets
Kitchens can make a great first impression, but bedrooms are where buyers will spend the majority of their time and must be staged with care. Staging a bedroom is a must for any home, because bedrooms in particular look much smaller than they actually are if no furniture is present. By selecting furnishings which complement the size of the space, we can make a bedroom feel comfortable and large enough to support the buyer. An often-overlooked area of a bedroom during staging is the closet. While staging a closet might seem frivolous, our feedback shows how buyers like to see some clothes (as long as they are neatly displayed), laundry baskets, and other closet accessories to see how the space functions. Like bedrooms, closets look bigger when they have some items inside, and our professional staging leaves no stone unturned when trying to make your home look its best.
Outdoor Spaces
While kitchens and bedrooms are on most people’s “need” list for their home, functional and fun outdoor spaces can turn a “want” into a “must have.” Whether your home features a welcoming porch, large yard, outdoor seating area, or a pool, effective staging of these spaces can help a buyer envision themselves truly living in and enjoying every aspect of the home.
Features Unique to Your Home
We have pointed out a few areas where we focus on each home we stage, but the best staging advice we can give happens when we see your home and learn from you about the unique aspects of the property. We would be honored to help tell the story of your home and highlight its best features to prospective buyers. If you feel staging could be beneficial, please call us today to schedule your initial consultation.
