People are often living with rooms that have no designated use. At one time, it was their child's bedroom, but the child grew up. Now underneath, it is still a bedroom with a good deal of storage in between and on top.
This is where the moving boxes are being sent once packed. Would this impress a potential buyer? Only if you are leaving all your stuff with the house. Otherwise, they want to see what they are buying.
DON'T MAKE THEM USE THEIR IMAGINATIONS!
Buyers want to look into the dining room and see their family sitting down to a holiday meal. They want to visualize themselves in the recliner with the remote in hand. Little Suzie will have this bedroom and Bobby, the one down the hall because he is older.
They know the big fluffy towels do not come with the house, but already they have one hanging nearby for a nice bubble bath. How convenient and thought
ful of the owners.
Are those people insane ? No - just normal like the rest of us.
So give them what they want- their dream house just waiting for them to move in.
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photo by Brit
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I wish sellers would realize that Buyers cannot visualize.
I've had some great staging done on my listings. The sellers usually don't personally like the staging that was done.
Sellers still refuse to believe that the staging has that much to do with why their house sold as quick as it did or as fast as it did, when it soooo did have everything to do with why they were able to move their house!
Staging is the only way to go. Otherwise the house sets on the market.
Teresa Johnson
Very well said!
Kim Dillon, Creative Eye Home Staging
I am starting a home this Friday that the sellers had already begun staging. Yep they painted the walls yellow in the family room because yellow is a cheery color..NO, we are repainting the walls in FR and kitchen buttered toffee. Ahhh, it will be much better.
Oh yeah, and then I am defining the guest bedroom, no office, no it's a bedroom