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Is Staging A Home Worth It?

In today's buyer's market, where housingand new counter tops.
inventories are high, sales are slow,We rented furniture to fill out all the
people go through all sorts of effortsrooms to suggest a use. The room with
to make their house stand out from thethe awkward layout was turned into a
rest. There are all sorts of tipsgame room, home office, and conversation
that one can read, but one that we havearea, all suggested with furniture. In
used to sell our houses is to use afact, going to Dominion Home Staging,
professional stager.and look at their case studies, and you
Our storywill see the house before and after
We bought an ugly house that neededpictures.
serious rework. We hired Dominion HomeLessons learnedWhen we used Dominion
Staging, in Richmond VA.Home Staging, we gave that team a blank
Our house looked like a duplex since thepallette of the entire house. As such,
original structure was red brick, andthey tied the whole thing together, and
the addition was sided with whitewe had a rather sizable budget to work
aluminum.with. When people walked into our
Inside, the kitchen was in a countrystaged home, the most common reaction
style, with the dark knotty pinefrom every person was "This house makes
cabinets, and a vinyl floor with a darkme feel calm." That was the design goal
brick pattern.and it worked.
The bathrooms had a mix of chrome andSome people can't spend as much as we
brass fixtures.did on renovating the house. Yet home
There were several different colors ofstagers can scale their services down to
paint, ceiling fans from the pastobserving your house and making
decades (seemingly a different decade insuggesting on the layout of furniture, a
each room), and the house had anquick repainting of a room, relocating
addition that had such an awkward layoutsome accessories, and help the seller
that it was hard to figure out how tonotice what they have not ever noticed
arrange a sofa and chair.before.
With a professional home stager leadingWith the sharp eye of the design team
the design we fixed all these problems.from Dominion Home Staging, we fixed a
We painted the exterior of the house inlot of errors in the property, and a
one color with accenting trim. Weprofessional stager can help you.
painted the interior with a color schemeWas it worth the cost? Yes.
that tied the entire house together. WeDid it help our sale? Yes.
updated the kitchen with knobs, paint,Would we do it again? Yes.



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