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