If you are like most home owners your house is set up the way you like it, but when it comes time to sell you need to take a step back and make sure that you are showing buyers the best use for each space in your home. You may need to use 3 bedrooms in your 4 bedroom home as office space, but most home buyers will want to see how those rooms can be used as bedrooms. Your formal dining room may work well for you as a playroom or yoga studio, but home buyers want to envision their formal dinners there. You may not have a ton of storage and opt to use the living room as a storage locker but home buyers will not understand where to entertain. Home Staging makes sure that you are properly showing buyers the best purpose of each space in your home. Check out the transformations we made below:
This formal office was being used as a game room- great for the seller but not too appealing to the home buyer that needs a home office:
This home seller was using his master bedroom as a home office but it did not send the luxury retreat feel home buyers were looking for:
This home seller was using their dining room as a formal living room. But buyers were wondering where to have Thanksgiving dinner!
The family living in this home loved using the large living room to hang out and watch tv, but buyers needed to see a formal space they could use for entertaining:
This home had a ton of storage but you would never know by looking at this catch all space. We gave it a new purpose:
The area at the top of these stairs was vacant. A simple solution was to show buyers how they could use this area as a home office, freeing up a bedroom for sleeping:
This dining room was perfect for the kiddies, but did not make sense for home buyers wanting to actually eat in there!
Great demonstration of how a lived in home looks much different from the way a home should look when put on the market. You worked wonders!
It's like going through the home on a treasure hunt to find the furniture that really belongs in a room, and then finding a new home for the misplaced furniture, isn't it? You did a wonderful job creating gems, Kate!
It amazes me time and time again how many homes "live" in a home and use the dining room as either a 2nd (or 3rd) living room or as a home office. Which is fine when you are LIVING in it, but NOT when SELLING it!
You did amazing work!
This is the second time today where I have commented on how people use dining rooms different than how they need to look to show. It's everywhere!
Your work is FAB!
Wow... this is fabulous Kate. Thank you for sharing and reminding homeowners that the way they live in their home, and the way they market their home, are two different things ;))
Thanks all! this was a fun blog to write. I got to go back and look at some projects I have not seen in 5 years! Still the same idea- show buyers how they can live there. KH