Tips for Preparing Your Home For Sale
Naperville Home Staging Success Tips #250-255
This large, (5,055 sq. ft.) house in the affluent, Chicago suburb of Naperville, ILL is a grand home. With 5 bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths the 1992 construction offers a lot of space, with airy rooms and beautiful “park-like” views. It’s a relatively young house, and was in good condition when we arrived to stage it for…
Read MoreAppreciating What You’ve Got!
The most compelling reason to own a home has always been the appreciation. As in asset appreciation. But when you’re dealing with an older home, there are other assets – architecture, character, other initially incomprehensible renovations – to appreciate. When you go to sell this home, you will want not only appreciate all of those quirks…
Read MoreHome Staging Chicago’s Western Suburbs – A Single Color Palette
At Chicagoland Home Staging we tend to use a single color palette for the whole house. This design tactic unifies the space, making a statement that is cohesive. It affords a sense of connectedness and order that most buyers dream of having in their next home. A single color palette, by being less interruptive, tends…
Read MoreSold in 5 days! Staged Naperville townhome races off the market!
Following staging, this Naperville townhome sold in 5 days. Home staging in Chicago’s Western suburbs often produces terrific results. Why would a staging design make such a difference? It is not that the occupant had done anything wrong with their design. They had a nice, solid,wood table, white chairs by the window, allowing for good light,…
Read MoreHome Staging Demonstrates Highest and Best Use
Of the many statistically proven reasons to stage your home for sale, the most compelling is a fundamental real estate principle – highest and best use. How you live in your home may be comfortable and practical, but that does not always sync up with the target buyer’s dream home, and how they see themselves…
Read MoreWhat you’ve got only better. Home Staging in Chicagoland.
When you are ready to put your home on the market, in order to maximize your return on investment it is best to consult a professional home stager, like us at Chicagoland Home Staging. In one of our recent projects, the seller had a large home that was occupied. While some of the pieces in…
Read MoreStaging a Chicagoland Home Office. It’s more than a desk and chair.
Today more people than ever work from home or need a space for their computer, files, and assorted electronic equipment. While tablets and laptops have taken over and desktops are less important, the space itself has become even more necessary. We still need a place for printers, routers, and a filing cabinet for taxes or…
Read MoreBlast from the past. Spotlighting some of our favorite blogs.
It’s great to look back and see what some of your favorite blogs have been over the past few months and take a look at what’s been popular and what you thought might have been popular but ended up being a flop. Sometimes you’ll find trends like posting on a specific day of the week,…
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 MoreWhat do I do with this space? A Naperville home makeover.
As professional home stagers we often are in homes where sellers tell us that they just never knew what to do with a space in their home. Often it is a space that should be prime real estate because it is near a great feature of the home like a fireplace or a great view.…
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