Chicagoland Vacant Home Staging – Before and After Pictures
Home Staging in Naperville: Does this floor plan make sense?
Sometimes we see photos of rooms that from one angle makes sense, and then from another angle makes no sense. Flow and function are typically established with furniture layouts. If the furniture placement is poor, or even just a little bit “off” then buyers may be confused. Rather than deciding if the seller just has…
Read MoreNaperville Home Staging: YES. We can even make THAT look good.
By now you’ve heard us say that removing wallpaper is the best thing you can do when you sell your home. (Only if you have wallpaper of course.) Sometimes that’s just not an option for sellers. This may be because of budget or time constraints. For Chicagoland Home Staging this creates a challenge, but one…
Read MoreArlington Heights: Overcoming “This room is too small”
Space, size, and scale are often very difficult for potential buyers to estimate when they are house hunting. This is one of the reasons that professional home staging, like the services we offer at Chicagoland Home Staging, is so important. This can be compounded when there are other issues lurking too. Let’s look at this…
Read MoreNaperville Home Staging Makeovers: Bedrooms!
When providing home staging quotes to some of our Naperville customers, some think that bedrooms are additional rooms that provide little value. Too often this is a space that ends up neglected or becomes one of the first places cut in the staging budget. While it isn’t always necessary to stage all of the rooms…
Read MoreRolling Meadows Vacant Home Staging: Are you inspired?
As we complete another vacant home staging project for one of our Rolling Meadows, IL investors, I have to think about some of the other homes that we see online – homes that sit empty – and wonder if potential home buyers feel inspired when they look at the photos online. Rolling Meadows investors receive…
Read MoreWhat would you do with this space? Chicagoland Home Staging Answers.
If you are popping over here from my Active Rain blog, What would you do with this space? A home staging pop quiz. Thank you for the interest in seeing what we did with the rooms. If you are stopping by here first, then you should pop over there first to see the rooms and form…
Read MoreOccupied home staging in Naperville. A Success Story.
It is always exciting when we get a call that one of our Naperville home staging projects is under contract! This one was particularly so since it had been on the market for over a year prior to staging and immediately went under contract with multiple offers. What was the difference? Staging – one of…
Read MoreHome Staging for Investors. Providing a return on investment.
Real Estate Investors know that home staging provides a return on investment. That’s why we are regularly used on projects. While inventory is becoming scarce and the market may not be able to sell without the help of home staging, our investors know that their homes have higher sales prices and still sell more quickly…
Read MoreWould this home bring the same buyer and the same offer?
It’s not unusual to hear that price is king when it comes to selling a home. While no competent home stager would advise that the home be over priced, many of us in the industry would argue that staging and presentation is actually just as important price. Don’t believe it? Let’s compare these two properties.…
Read MoreHome Staging Fact or Fiction: Staging is just adding furniture.
I thought it was a good time to begin a home staging fact or fiction discussion. It seems that there are some misconceptions out there about exactly what a home stager does, and what our role is in the selling process. Over the next several months we’ll take a look at many of them. If…
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