Tips for Preparing Your Home For Sale
Maple MakeOver Needed A More General Personal Style
Sometimes a home is nice, with all the basics covered, but it may not photograph well. Since we all reach for Google when starting any kind of search today, every house listed for sale needs a personality and a warm welcome to stand out. This might seem a conundrum: stagers are always telling home owners to remove…
Read MoreAccent Walls – Caution Ahead!
Modern Family Room by Los Angeles Interior Designers & Decorators Annette English Accent Walls There are lots of good reasons to have an accent wall. And as populare as they were in the 80s and 90s, they remain as stylish and useful today. For example: If you love open plan living, but want to subtly…
Read MoreKitchen Staging Ideas: Too Far vs. Not Far Enough
Kitchen Staging Ideas proliferate, but it takes a delicate touch to get a kitchen exactly right. The whole scenario relies on how you treat the counters. The biggest mistake we see home owners make is in clearing the counters off and leaving nothing there at all. This bare presentation leaves potential buyers with nothing to look at,…
Read MoreHome Staging Ideas Dining Room Locations
When you have an open plan first floor, where do you locate the dining room? Part of the kitchen or on the carpet as part of the formal living room? We recently encountered this conundrum when we staged this charming home in Oswego, IL. Interestingly it has no formal dining room as it is an…
Read MoreSelling Your Home During The Holidays
There are definite advantages to selling your home during the Holidays! 1. There is not as much competition. Those that are out there are serious buyers, so while you may have fewer showings, those you do have are more likely to produce a good result. 2. When your house is on the market, you have to…
Read MoreNaperville 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…
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