Does anyone know what I can do to stage my kitchen and bathrooms? I did the usual like cleaning and decluttering the kitchen but it now it looks very plain and empty and our bathrooms could also use some help. Any advise?
The first thing I would suggest is to begin thinking of your house as a commodity.
Go through every room and get rid of any clutter, family pictures, etc. Get rid of extra pieces of furniture. Storage is best if you plan on keeping anything. Otherwise, have a garage sale or donate to a charity.
The first vision prospective buyers have of a home is the appearance from the street. Remember, the first impression is the lasting impression. Keep yards, trees, bushes, flower beds clean, trimmed, well kept. Add colorful new flowers around. What does the front entrance look like? Is it a plain old door or something that is outstanding?
The entrance way. Go through each room with an eye to keeping it as vanilla as possible. You don’t want folks eyeing it as if they’re visiting Aunt Mary or Grandmother’a. Nothing personal at all. They need to see and feel as if it’s their house, not yours.
Clean all the windows, inside and out; screens, also.
How are the floors? Need new carpetting? Many upgraded projects can be done yourself. Paint? Trim? Appliances?
Usually new home buyers are pretty strapped getting into a home and the last thing they want to do is put out more money to upgrade, repair or replace things.
Clean shelves, storage areas and closets out to the minimum.
They need to see how their possessions will fit everywhere.
Open the shades and curtains and get as much light in the rooms as possible.
It’s a commodity now, not a pride of ownership thing. You’re trying to convince someone that this is a home just right for them, a turn key purchase they can move right into without a lot of work, changes or hassles.
A few nicely scented candles, cookies baking in the oven, spotless kitchen and bath areas.
Minimum is essential. Usually we end up with just too much furniture in the house we’ve accumulated over the years.
What may be a treasure to you or a family heirloom might be just another big piece of furniture to someone else that takes up too much space or is awkward to get around. That nice set of bath accessories was great for you but may be a bit much for other folks.
Example, leave kitchen counters empty except for one appliance.
Take a few tours of Model Homes to get a feel for the little extra things they do to make it presentable.
No weird paint jobs. Be conservative in colors.
It’s amazing how after cleaning and storing a lot of things, then going through and with minimal expense you can drastically change your home into a very good home buying potential.
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December 25th, 2009 at 3:15 am
I personally like sell this house on A&E, the whole show is about staging a house for sale, they usually have some sound cheap advice, not saying its the only solution but should give you some ideas for your own place
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December 25th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Now go back and add the "pow" factor, such as one incredible thing per room. Perhaps a single framed picture, a flower in a vase, perfectly lit, of course, stones in a water bowl, yada yada yada…
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December 25th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Kitchen
Baskets of fruit, decorative canisters, vase with flowers, good lighting, decorative towels, a bowl of candy
Bathroom
Pick a theme here. Like an ocean theme and decorate. Decorative towels, candles, a sand and seashell display, decorative shower curtain, again good lighting, nice rug, toilet seat cover.
Lighting is key – lights can make anything look better and more eye catching. Plants can also brighten things up. You want the buyers to be able to picture themself living there. Keep decor simple and tasteful. Nothing to wild – something that would fit to the marjority’s liking.
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December 25th, 2009 at 5:05 am
The first thing I would suggest is to begin thinking of your house as a commodity.
Go through every room and get rid of any clutter, family pictures, etc. Get rid of extra pieces of furniture. Storage is best if you plan on keeping anything. Otherwise, have a garage sale or donate to a charity.
The first vision prospective buyers have of a home is the appearance from the street. Remember, the first impression is the lasting impression. Keep yards, trees, bushes, flower beds clean, trimmed, well kept. Add colorful new flowers around. What does the front entrance look like? Is it a plain old door or something that is outstanding?
The entrance way. Go through each room with an eye to keeping it as vanilla as possible. You don’t want folks eyeing it as if they’re visiting Aunt Mary or Grandmother’a. Nothing personal at all. They need to see and feel as if it’s their house, not yours.
Clean all the windows, inside and out; screens, also.
How are the floors? Need new carpetting? Many upgraded projects can be done yourself. Paint? Trim? Appliances?
Usually new home buyers are pretty strapped getting into a home and the last thing they want to do is put out more money to upgrade, repair or replace things.
Clean shelves, storage areas and closets out to the minimum.
They need to see how their possessions will fit everywhere.
Open the shades and curtains and get as much light in the rooms as possible.
It’s a commodity now, not a pride of ownership thing. You’re trying to convince someone that this is a home just right for them, a turn key purchase they can move right into without a lot of work, changes or hassles.
A few nicely scented candles, cookies baking in the oven, spotless kitchen and bath areas.
Minimum is essential. Usually we end up with just too much furniture in the house we’ve accumulated over the years.
What may be a treasure to you or a family heirloom might be just another big piece of furniture to someone else that takes up too much space or is awkward to get around. That nice set of bath accessories was great for you but may be a bit much for other folks.
Example, leave kitchen counters empty except for one appliance.
Take a few tours of Model Homes to get a feel for the little extra things they do to make it presentable.
No weird paint jobs. Be conservative in colors.
It’s amazing how after cleaning and storing a lot of things, then going through and with minimal expense you can drastically change your home into a very good home buying potential.
References :
March 16th, 2011 at 8:54 am
Hi,
Just wondering if you have a moment to help me out. Right now, I have a working SSIS Package on my local machine (development environment) that truncates a table before importing new records from our staging SQL server. Before doing the truncation and import, I would like to check if the table on my staging server has records. If there are records then, I perform the above task, if no records, I would like to send myself an email.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MS