The Staging Fashionista Blog: February 2010

Would you invest $300 in your home for a quicker sale?  If you are selling your home in today's market this is a small investment in home staging that can result in big returns.  If you are a do-it-yourselfer a mere $300 can get you a 10 - 20 page comprehensive written consultation report for a 4 bedroom 3 1/2 bath house, that identifies everything that needs to be done in each room of your home.  The report provides ideas for curb appeal, furniture arrangement, home upgrades, paint choices, de-cluttering, cleaning and so much more.  This report is something you can read and then implement on your own. 

If all of the recommendations are implemented as outlined in the report your home will sell.  This is what home staging does - it prepares a home for market so it can sell quicker and for an overall better sale.  A mere $300 can add equity and value to your home and it will make your home stand out from the competition.  So don't reduce your price by $10K or 20K instead invest $300 in a home staging consultation that can show you how to improve the overall appearance of your home that will appeal to more potential buyers and get your house sold. 

The Staging Fashionista provides professional and affordable home staging services to clients in Northern VA, DC and MD.  We dress homes to sell and as APSD certified home stagers we focus on your specific goal in transacting the property.  Everything we do is specific to a fast sale.  Anyone can make your home pretty but we make it to sell! Our teams national average of DOM is 25 days! 

Home staging can add value and usable space to a home.  This was particularly true for this home that was staged by The Staging Fashionista.  It  had nice basement space but was not showing off its true potential.  Basements add square footage to a home which equals to value so why not show it off and give buyers something more than a room without purpose.

Basement Before Staging had no focal point or purpose

Basement After Staging now shows the true space potential and value added

So I had this dilemna on how to make a small bathroom interesting. There were not many foundations to work with on which to place accessories.  All I had was the toilet and a small area on the pedestal sink.  So I started thinking about how I could make this small half bath something to remember as that is my main objective for all my home staging projects.  So what did I do?  Well see for yourself.