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Staging your house for top dollar
Staging your house just before it goes on the market can make a dramatic improvement in your sales. Staging's goal is to highlight the home's strengths and downplay its weaknesses. House staging is the biggest house-effect out there and for good reason: it works!
8 Staging Steps
8 easy steps that you can use for each room in your home to stage it quickly and professionally.
Staging Your Dining Room
Dining rooms were once a symbol of wealth. Ordinary middle class people ate in the kitchen. Then every new home had to have a dining room and people found out that it wasn't a lot of fun eating in the dining room every night.
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Bathroom Staging
Bathroom staging hides the day-to-day necessities
Bathroom staging is really just bare essentials. Cleanliness is crucial. There should be no scum or mold anywhere. Counters, sinks, toilets, shower curtains, shower doors, mirrors and soap containers should be sparkling clean.
Put away ALL the day-to-day necessities so the countertops are clean and clear. Empty out the medicine cabinet of everything but the basics. Store prescription medicines completely out of sight. Make sure you have new toothbrushes and a new tube of toothpaste.
Keep the lid down on the toilet. Remove any fancy toilet seat covers. Check the toilet seat and if it is showing any signs of age, replace. If there are rust stains in the toilet, replace the entire toilet. Needless to say, toilets should always be flushed.
Hide the waste basket. It takes up space and even the fanciest waste basket will give mixed feelings to anyone seeing it. You're trying to give a positive image to an important room and not have people thinking about your garbage.
If you don't have nice matching towels, splurge here and buy some just for the showings. Keep hand-towels for everyday use out of sight.
Shower curtains should be new. No fancy prints, in fact, plain white curtains are highly appealing and will never look dated.
If you have a luxury bathroom, with an attractive tub, create a simple vignette with towels, bath soap, and candles.
Give your baths that "Five-Star" hotel look. Add thick, white, luxury hotel-type towels, extra hand towels at each sink and a container of those hotel goodies -- slightly scented reeds or slightly scented candles, and cotton-ball, Q-Tip, and holders for each.
The most important aspect of the bathroom should be that it is absolutely spotless from top to bottom and kept that way as long as the house is on the market.