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Best Red Carpet Look for Your Home

Whether you realize it or not, there is the best red carpet look for your home. After all, the whole purpose of home staging is for your home to stand out from your competition.

Just like the stars walking the red carpet at the Grammys, it’s a process for the stars to look that way. From choosing the right gown and accessories, to their hair, make-up, and nails, they will tell you it takes a village to create their red carpet look.

First of all, the stars know they will be judged and the consensus will either be good, outstanding, or bad. It’s the same when selling your home. You, too, have one chance to make a first impression. If you knock it out of the park, you may sell your home for more money than you imagined. And if you don’t?

The best red carpet look for your home

The best red carpet look for your home comes from using a professional home staging stylist. It only makes sense when your home’s reputation is on the line. A star wouldn’t walk the red carpet without her team behind her. When selling your home, your money is on the line. The faster your house sells, the more money you will make. Your professional home stager or stylist will be responsible to create the best red carpet look for your home. And when the buyers fall in love, it’s money in the bank from there!

What’s the alternative? Sell your house as it is and see what that gets you. I call that selling by default…you get what you get. Your money comes down to the Realtor you hire. They might sell a lot of houses but at what price? And how fast does it happen?

There are a lot of skills necessary to sell houses for top dollar. Likewise, the number one skill agents don’t have is home staging. And yet many agents will attempt to stage your home themselves. Why? All the extras in real estate cost money. Many agents don’t want to spend money to make money. They probably had a bad experience of spending their own money on a home they didn’t get sold.

On the other hand, some agents will bring their home stager in for an hour-long home staging consultation. That is not home staging. That’s advising you on what to do. That’s like a hair stylist telling you what style will look good on you versus doing it. And have you ever had a bad hairstylist? Case closed.

The art of home staging

Perhaps unknown to the average Realtor, above all else, there is an art to home staging. After all, there’s a whole giant industry based around it. It’s so much more than clearing the countertops. It’s creating your best first impression look, so buyers are drawn into your home, sweeping them off their feet, causing them to fall in love with it, to the point they have to have it, and will gladly pay you extra money to get it.

That’s what I do as your home stylist. You can declutter and put your family photos away but you need a professional stylist to create the best red carpet look for your home that will sweep your buyers off their feet. Your job is to find that person with the right broom.

Remember, the way you live in your home and the way you sell your house are two different ways. Consequently, selling your home is a beauty pageant and a competition. You need to be ready. There will always be another house that looks better than yours if you don’t create your best red carpet look for your home. I’ve seen your competition and I’m in it to win it. Game on!

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If you’re thinking of selling your home, allow me to create your best red carpet look. Call me at (913) 515-3250 or contact me here to schedule your FREE home selling consultation and let’s see if what I do will work for you!

Home Staging and Emotions

Home Staging and emotions go hand-in-hand when it comes to selling your home. And I’m not talking about your emotions. Until your buyers get emotionally involved with your house, they won’t buy it.

How can you get buyers emotionally invested in your home?

The art of Home staging is designed to allow buyers to see and feel themselves living in your home. And that starts with the 10-second rule.

The right home staging will draw buyers into your home. That’s why it’s so important to follow my simple, 3 step “Now to WOW!” Home Staging process to lure them in.

From Now to WOW!

Do these 3 things if you do nothing else. These things will ensure you’ll be ready for a final Home Staging tweak by a professional like me.

  1. Declutter – you must remove the clutter from your house. I know that’s a hard one but you are preventing your own sale from happening. Just yesterday my buyers said to me, “there’s no way they could be out of here in 30 days.” We eliminated that one from our list of possibilities.
  2. Depersonalize – be sure to remove all of those family photos, collections of beanie babies, etc. Buyers cannot and will not visualize their own family photos and collections in your house if yours are still there. They only see it as your house, they don’t visualize themselves living there.
  3. Rearrange – this is the big one. You’ve got to rearrange your furniture to evoke an emotional feeling from the home buyers. Recently, I had an agent tell me that her buyers are trying to make a decision between one of my houses for sale and one other. She said they sat in the living room to see how they felt in the house. (It’s a good thing I moved furniture into that vacant house).

Closing in on emotions

When I know buyers are showing signs of loving a house, I will be the first to sit down in my favorite room. Inevitably the buyers will join me. That’s when they start getting comfortable and feeling themselves emotionally living in the house. The right furniture in the right places helps draw them in and feel right at home. Too much furniture in the wrong places will create a feeling of claustrophobia. I will be the first to run out the door.

Set yourself up for success when selling your home by helping your home buyers get emotional about your home. They have no memories there. It’s your job to become unemotionally detached in order for your buyers to become emotionally attached. Once you master that concept, you will be on your way to selling your home faster and for the most money possible. That’s also where a great home stager will be worth her weight in gold and will turn your lived-in home into a model home masterpiece.

If you are even considering selling your home, call or text me directly at (913) 515-3250 or contact me here to create emotion that will reap you thousands of extra dollars in your pocket.

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