| In today's buyer's market, where housing | | | | |
| inventories are high, sales are slow, people | | | | We rented furniture to fill out all the rooms |
| go through all sorts of efforts to make their | | | | to suggest a use. The room with the awkward |
| house stand out from the rest. There are | | | | layout was turned into a game room, home |
| all sorts of tips that one can read, but one | | | | office, and conversation area, all suggested |
| that we have used to sell our houses is to | | | | with furniture. In fact, going to Dominion |
| use a professional stager. | | | | Home Staging, and look at their case studies, |
| | | | and you will see the house before and after |
| Our story | | | | pictures. |
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| We bought an ugly house that needed serious | | | | Lessons learnedWhen we used Dominion Home |
| rework. We hired Dominion Home Staging, in | | | | Staging, we gave that team a blank pallette |
| Richmond VA. | | | | of the entire house. As such, they tied the |
| | | | whole thing together, and we had a rather |
| Our house looked like a duplex since the | | | | sizable budget to work with. When people |
| original structure was red brick, and the | | | | walked into our staged home, the most common |
| addition was sided with white aluminum. | | | | reaction from every person was "This house |
| | | | makes me feel calm." That was the design |
| Inside, the kitchen was in a country style, | | | | goal and it worked. |
| with the dark knotty pine cabinets, and a | | | | |
| vinyl floor with a dark brick pattern. | | | | Some people can't spend as much as we did on |
| | | | renovating the house. Yet home stagers can |
| The bathrooms had a mix of chrome and brass | | | | scale their services down to observing your |
| fixtures. | | | | house and making suggesting on the layout of |
| | | | furniture, a quick repainting of a room, |
| There were several different colors of paint, | | | | relocating some accessories, and help the |
| ceiling fans from the past decades (seemingly | | | | seller notice what they have not ever noticed |
| a different decade in each room), and the | | | | before. |
| house had an addition that had such an | | | | |
| awkward layout that it was hard to figure out | | | | With the sharp eye of the design team from |
| how to arrange a sofa and chair. | | | | Dominion Home Staging, we fixed a lot of |
| | | | errors in the property, and a professional |
| With a professional home stager leading the | | | | stager can help you. |
| design we fixed all these problems. We | | | | |
| painted the exterior of the house in one | | | | Was it worth the cost? Yes. |
| color with accenting trim. We painted the | | | | |
| interior with a color scheme that tied the | | | | Did it help our sale? Yes. |
| entire house together. We updated the | | | | |
| kitchen with knobs, paint, and new counter | | | | Would we do it again? Yes. |
| tops. | | | | |