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