Buy some large baskets that are lined with cloth or canvas and store toys in those
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Just wondering if I should or just leave it alone. I don’t know if I can handle pulling out all the Holiday stuff either after packing all my knick knacks in the crawl space….. but if you told me Christmas decorations might help sell my home… then heck, maybe it’s worth dragging them out. I think I am skipping halloween and Thanksgiving decorations though…
I guess I can’t bring out my Santa praying to baby Jesus! LOL
Your goal in staging a home is to depersonalize the home as much as possible so any prospective buyer can see themselves living there. In light of that, decorating for the holidays seems counterproductive.
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To decorate and stage homes for sale
If you are asking how to do it…….one realtor told me some ways stage and quickly…unless it needs a total overhall. Weed and fresh mulch flowerbeds, clean windows, open blinds, all of them!!, wipe walls down with rag, and or walk around with that can of paint and a little brush and touch up where you have chipped it off. Get some lemon oil and do ALL of the wood baseboards and all. Rid it of clutter, get it out, store it, even in the garage. They said cleanliness is key….if you over decorate, which is nice, but they will spend time looking at that not your house. Last, bake some cookies or bread before an open house, it makes the house smell yummy and put them in an "at home" feeling.
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I have recently been thinking of starting a home staging business (the process of designing a home for sale), what do you think? Would you use a home staging service if your home was for sale? I have looked online and there are a lot of certification classes that you can take, however they aren’t required and they are expensive. Do you think that makes a difference? Does anyone have any helpful advice for someone that wants to get into this business? I’m looking for serious answers please, thank you!
I would recommend that you do a couple of houses for free, or a very small fee (just have the homeowner pay for the rentals and small items). Then you can photograph them and write up your success stories of how you helped these houses sell. Then you can begin charging a real fee.
What would be a reasonable hourly rate for a professional home stager?
Thanks all, I was actually inquiring for a friend who is looking to start her own business after getting laid off from a design position. She was curious about what she could reasonably charge per hour for her services.
That would depend on the amount of staging being done. If they are just removing the clutter and rearranging what you own, in the Northeast it’s $15.00 per hour
If they are painting and renting furniture, doing a little updating and landscaping the going rate is $25.00 per hour
If they are calling in outside contractors for some remodeling you will be paying the stager and the contractor.
These wages include client participation. If you are leaving the staging entirely up to the designer you will pay significantly more.