 At Heidi Ross Design, we help clients to understand how home staging has a lot of power in shaping how potential buyers perceive space within your home. When a buyer walks into a home crowded with personal effects, with the clutter of everyday life—like keys, shoes, and coats—spread around, they might feel that the space is small, dim, and not a place they can envision themselves living. But the same space with a light paint color, a few thoughtfully chosen accessories, and a careful paring down and clearing away of those everyday items can seem airy, bright, and inviting—and can let the potential buyer envision their own life being lived in the home.
Home staging is also a powerful tool to sell your home—but that doesn’t mean it’s a cure-all. Here, we’ll break down what home staging can’t do, and what is best to take care of or think through before trying to stage and sell your home. 1. Home staging cannot replace thorough cleaning. When you’re trying to sell your home, one of the most important things you can do is ensure that every inch is spotlessly clean. Buyers want to see a space that looks well-cared for and new (or as close to new as possible) —and cat/dog fur or dust can make even the cleanest house look worn out. This is something that no amount of new paint or carefully selected décor can change. Before staging, ensure that you get the home extremely clean, and keep this up while the home is being sold. Removing odors can be an important step, too—clean up any pet smell, and try light, refreshing, natural scents, or even an open window to help the potential buyer feel clean and clear. 2. Home staging cannot change location or make an unrealistic price tag possible. While it seems self-evident, this is something big to keep in mind. Home staging can help to increase a home's value, but it can’t help you to achieve an unrealistic price for your home. A too-high price tag can scare buyers off—and a price that drops as the house sits on the market can continue to scare them away as well. And the target market for your house depends on location. For example, trendy areas near nightlife might appeal to younger professionals—neighborhoods made up of young families in good school districts will attract a different potential buyer. Staging won’t be able to change someone’s mind if the area doesn’t meet their needs—but it can help you to appeal to your target market through design choices. Modern kitchen staging, with light walls and a bar area, might appeal to younger couples, while a traditional style with an eat-in kitchen area might appeal to an older or extended family. 3. Home staging cannot hide or disguise major flaws, and can’t replace necessary updates and repairs. Home staging helps a buyer to see the best features of your home. Staging a small kitchen can help them to envision how the space could best be put to use, and staging a small house can help them envision how good features—like large windows or a beautiful fireplace—would make the home right for their family. But home staging is not meant to cover up, disguise, or hide major flaws—and it can’t make buyers forget about big deal-breaking issues like significant deferred maintenance or holes in walls. Big issues—like problems with the wiring, roof, plumbing, or HVAC—need to be fixed before the home is listed or staged, or presented to the buyer as issues that are folded into the sale. The buyer who wants to take on home projects is different from the buyer who wants to move into a move-in home, and home staging won’t be able to make a buyer forget about dated rooms or major mechanical problems. Before you get ready to sell, do your best to complete renovations and updates that are recommended by your professional stager. Paint, updated lighting, and new hardware can go a long way towards helping your potential buyer see your home’s best value, and doing larger-value renovations—like bathroom renovations, basement finishing, new flooring, or a new roof, if you expect these to be issues during the sale—can help you and your real estate agent/professional get your best sale terms. Where can I find home staging near me? At Heidi Ross Design, we help clients in Memphis, Germantown, Olive Branch, and the Greater Memphis area get their best terms when selling their luxury homes. Our expertise and experience mean we can help you throughout the process when you need the best in-person viewing and best virtual staging support. Want to learn more? Use our online form for a FREE quote, or give us a call at (901) 361-7419. **Disclaimer** Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk.
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 A home staging consultation has many benefits: this value packed conversation with Heidi Ross Design or your local home stagers helps you to see your home through a potential buyer’s eyes. But if you’re getting ready for your home staging consultation, you might be wondering about the details, too—what exactly will this meeting be like? Here, we’ll break down how a home staging consultation runs and what you can do before and after to get your home ready for listing with a real estate professional.
 If you’ve been thinking, "I’m ready to get started staging my house for sale", you’ve made a great choice—putting down the money up front to have your home professionally staged has a huge return on investment, and can help you get your best sale, no matter what your sale priorities are and what this means for you. But maybe you still have a few questions about what comes next—what comes between making the first call to a professional stager and getting your dream sale?
 When you’re selling your home, the process can be exciting. Getting that offer and a sale contract in place can feel like the end of a long, tiring journey. With all the hard work you’ve put into your home finally paying off, you might feel ready to pack up and clear out right away.
One of the steps you might be ready to take is removing any furniture or artwork that your home stager brought in. After all, the contract is already created and your buyers already like the house—why keep paying for staging and going to the trouble of keeping items in place when you could be on to packing up and preparing for a new life? It might be worth waiting before you remove those home staging items and not move so quickly. Here, we’ll break down why this is—and how Heidi Ross Design can help get your home staged and ready for sale. How long should I leave professional staging in place? The answer to this question might depend on the advice you get from your stager, but normally staging should remain in place while you work with your real estate broker throughout the entire home sale process and until you “close” on the sale contract. This might mean that staging stays in place until just a few days before closing and sometimes even until the day before you sign the sale papers. But the buyer already likes the home! Why should I keep staging in place? It might seem excessive to leave staging in place after the buyer has already made an offer on the home. Staging costs money and moving can be expensive—but it might actually turn out to be more expensive to risk de-staging too early. There are a few things to take into consideration before you decide to de-stage your home. First, remember that choosing to make an offer on a home is an emotional decision. When potential buyers walk into a staged home, the staging creates a certain mood that helps them to imagine themselves and their lives happening in that space. If the buyers return to the home later in the contract process to vacant rooms—which can look smaller and less welcoming without the furniture—they might feel differently about the space and start to rethink their decision to buy the home. This might make them change their minds on aspects of the house that staging helped them to like—so that bedroom with the beautiful windows might suddenly seem glaringly small, or that repair or small renovation project that they need to undertake after the purchase, might seem less worth the time and inconvenience. Staging helps the buyer maintain their connection to the home and ensures that they will see the same things as they saw them before and continue to see themselves living there. This supports the home’s value in their minds and reminds them how important it is to own the home. And consider the possibility that an offer might fall through for other reasons during the sale process—considerations, inspection, and appraisal. Keeping staging in place during all the normal sale processes gives added security to the seller while they work with their real estate agent during the sale process. Staging ensures the value of the home is maintained during the time needed to work through these and any other issues that can come up while selling a home—from the beginning of the home sale process to the buyer's final walk-through-- a lot can happen during this time. If you de-stage too early and the contract falls through, you might find yourself in the situation of having a now “empty home” and needing to put it back on the market. Staged homes statistically show to sell faster and for more profit than un-staged or vacant homes. A staged home also shows buyers the strong points of the home's livability. It also says that the seller really cares about their home's value and sale. Keeping your home staged until it’s sold is a good investment and far cheaper than having to stage your home again if a sale falls apart. Where can I get help with staging for sale near me? At Heidi Ross Design, we help clients in the Greater Mid-South sell their luxury homes and get that win-win sale for both buyer and seller. Our experts have the experience and skills to stage occupied or vacant homes so that the best features and potential are on display—and we have the knowledge to help you with tricky decisions like when to take away any staging materials or how many rooms to stage. With our processional advice and staging, your home will look great in virtual tours too—when you want your home to look its best we also deliver powerful results for virtual video tours and listing photos. Ready to get started and learn more about how we can help you with your home staging? We offer a FREE quote that lets you know more about staging prices and virtual staging cost ranges. A Heidi Ross Design specialist can be reached at (901) 361-7419 for all of your home staging needs in Memphis, Germantown, and Collierville. **Disclaimer** Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk. 
When you’re staging your home for sale, it can be hard to know exactly what steps to take. A professional stager can be an invaluable resource—a wealth of information, materials, and knowledge—but as you watch the stager at work, you might find that you have some questions, maybe even wonder what exactly is the point of staging houses for real estate? The house, after all, retains the same structure—sometimes, the stager might even use furniture that is already there. How can the stagers' adjustments have such a big impact on eventual sale success? The next time you’re wondering about staging—whether it’s worth it, why it’s so useful, or why your stager made certain changes—try this comparison on for size: home staging is like a job interview. While the two might seem very different, the similarities get more apparent the more you think about them. Try to remember the last time you went for an interview—remember everything from what you wore, to how much you prepared to know exactly how you were going to answer each question. And then think about how you actually answered those questions. Maybe, for example, you put on a nice suit or blouse, and also got up in time to have a healthy breakfast and review your research—the information you found about the organization, your list of questions for the interviewer, or your organized thoughts for common questions. For the interview, you prepared--and this is something that you’ll also see in home staging. While getting ready for an interview, your preparation might involve thinking up intelligent answers to questions like, “tell me about yourself”. Preparation in home staging can also go a long way to getting you set up for success. When staging, you’ve probably cleaned and gotten lots of deferred maintenance done—helping your home to be dressed for success, just like you. When interviewing, you probably know that this is not the time to share your full life story. Lots of personal life information or lots of complaints about your old job is a no-no!. All this extra information might distract from your strengths—and even leave the interviewer with a bad impression. When home staging, you can also see this kind of paring down—the stager might need to remove personal accessories and photos and will emphasize the importance of making the home clean and clear of clutter. So when you’re staging a kitchen or staging a bathroom for sale, you’ll empty trash cans and put away any personal items like your toothbrush, hair brush, makeup, deodorant ...you get the idea. These things aren’t secrets—your buyer knows that you have to brush your teeth!—but packing them away helps the buyer see themselves living there and focus on the parts of the house that they’re interested in at that moment, like counters and space. The buyer will one day have toothbrushes and personal items in the house—just like one day you’ll put personal items on your desk or tell coworkers about your family—but during an interview or when staging, it helps to keep everyone focused on the goal. That’s not the same thing as lying, of course—something you’re careful to avoid in both home staging and an interview. Neither aims to put forward something that isn’t true. When interviewing, you don’t say you have skills or experience that you don’t really have, and when staging, you aren’t trying to trick the buyer into thinking that problems that exist with your house aren’t really there. In fact, in an interview the interviewer might ask directly about weaknesses—something that buyers might ask about a house, too. Buyers have a list of criteria, like the person hiring you might, and your house works like a resume – showing off what’s there and how other strong points can compensate for ‘weaknesses’. Think of how you might answer that question about your personal weaknesses in an interview: you might share a few of them, but also provide examples of how you’re trying to improve—emphasizing your strengths. Staging will help emphasize the strengths of your home. So when staging a small bedroom, its size might be a weakness—and staging cannot give it more square footage, but it can emphasize large windows with natural light that make the room seem bigger and help the buyer emotionally connect with the space. Similar to an interview, home staging preparation will help you get your best results and if you’re wondering where can I get help staging my house for sale? Heidi Ross Design is here to help you in Germantown, Memphis, and Collierville. We help clients in the Greater Mid-South sell their luxury homes. Whether you’re looking for staging services for an occupied or vacant home, we’re here to help you take all the steps needed to get your best sale results. Give us a call at (901) 361-7419 or use our FREE ONLINE QUOTE form and get started today. Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk  When it comes to selling your home, everyone would love that dream sale: a perfect win-win for both buyer and seller. But with so many factors at play, it can be difficult to get everything you’re looking for from a buyer. Here, we’ll break down some of the factors that can help contribute to the ideal sale—and how home staging can help you achieve them.
Clean & Organized The steps to that win-win dream sale starts small. While it might not be dramatic, one of the biggest things you can do is to keep things clean and organized while your house is on the market. That means no clothes, keys, papers (and etc.) lying around. All of your daily life “stuff” will need a designated place to “live” while you are selling your home—and that includes any belongings your little ones need, which can be a big challenge when sometimes “littles” have more “stuff” than 3 adults put together. But it’s not impossible—a home stager can provide a wealth of information on how to pare down personal items and create logical and proper space for the “stuff” needed in life. A professional home stager can help you understand that, while it might seem selling your home should be pretty straight-forward, a potential buyer is walking into your personal space and needs to be able to immediately have an emotional connection. They need to be able to see themselves living and being comfortable there. A clean and orderly home is a sure-fire win right off the bat. You want a buyer to immediately and easily see themselves and their daily routine in your home—don't make them “imagine-away” your clutter to see themselves living there. Length Of Time On The Market In an ideal sale, the timeline works out for both parties—when the seller needs a quick sale, there’s a buyer who wants the house right away, or vice versa. While during any sale you won’t have control over every factor, staging can be a big step towards getting the timeline you need. On average, a home in the Mid-South takes about 30 – 45 days to sell and homes that are staged sell about 87% faster than homes that aren’t. So if your ideal sale involves moving your home quickly, staging will create an environment to draw in buyers and help them see the appeal of living in your home, thus motivating them to make an offer. Reducing Holding Costs Keeping a house on the market costs money too; mortgage payments, insurance, utilities, association fees, and home security, all of which are called “holding” or “carrying” costs, can add up quickly. That’s especially true if you’re paying all of those fees at the home you are currently selling and a new home you have already purchased. Those costs can start to eat into potential profits if your home sits on the market too long. In the dream sale, your house moves off the market quickly and cuts down on those expenses—and since staging can help buyers see your home’s greatest potential and get them excited about making an offer, a sale can help you cut down on those holding costs. How can home staging help me get my dream sale? Staging helps buyers to see themselves in your home's space. When home staging, living room areas in particular are powerful points to help buyers imagine themselves: buyers want to see themselves relaxing there, watching a game or a movie and enjoying time with their friends and family. The same goes for modern kitchen staging where the house feels clean, well-tended, and inviting. Most buyers dream of cooking a fabulous meal in an inviting kitchen—even if it's just boiling water for ramen noodles or opening take-out boxes. When staging a small house it is important to maximize all sources of natural light. Staging can help buyers envision a small space to its best potential and see how well it can be used. Professional staging can also maximize a home's best features with online pictures, too—while a house in person might feel roomy when you are actually in it, virtual staging photos, when shot in empty rooms or by an amateur with poor lighting, might make the space feel small. A professional stager understands how to take all of these variables of both in person and on-line “home showings” into consideration and make them all work together. Where can I find local home stagers in the Greater Mid-South? At Heidi Ross Design, we specialize in staging vacant and occupied luxury homes for sale in Memphis, Collierville, Germantown and the local Memphis mid-south area. We’re here to help you get your dream sale—a win-win where you move out and the buyer moves in and both parties go on to make future dreams come true. Ready to get started with a free quote from our experts? Use our online form, or give us a call at (901) 361-7419. We’re here to help you every step of the way!  When you go about your daily life in your home, you might notice that you have mirrors scattered throughout the house. Besides bathroom mirrors, you might have one in the bedroom near the closet, or one in the hall so you can glance at yourself as you leave the house. Mirrors are more than beautiful pieces of décor—they’re highly practical, and probably get a lot of use throughout the day.
When you’re selling your home, those mirrors can take on another dimension of practicality, too. Because of how they reflect light and space, mirrors can be a major benefit in staging your home, helping it look lighter, brighter, and more open. Here, we’ll break down why that is, and how mirrors can be used in staging your home for sale. Why use mirrors when staging a house? When potential buyers tour your house, they’re looking for a place they can imagine as their new dream home—and for many, this means a home that’s well-lit and spacious. When you’re staging a small bedroom, bathroom, or other space, you might know that it’s a good idea to pare down and clear many accessories to get rid of visual distractions that can make a room look cluttered. But to take the staging a step further, mirrors can help to make a room look larger and brighter. How? Because mirrors reflect other parts of the room, they help to create depth that makes the room look larger and more open. And when natural or electrical the light bounces off the reflective surface, they can help to make the room look brighter. A mirror, when well-placed, can help to spread the light from a lamp or window to hard-to-illuminate areas of the room. These benefits can help buyers see the space in a more favorable way and help them to envision themselves living there. We are all naturally drawn to the well lit areas of a space...just like bugs in the dark will swarm around a light bulb. How can mirrors help with virtually staging a room? Virtual staging is a great tool to reach potential buyers. Photos—especially when taken by a professional—can show a home to its best advantage, and mirrors can help—they can boost depth in the photo or virtual tour video by showing the potential buyer opposite walls or even windows, which adds dimension to the photo. The mirror can also help to spread a natural light source to show off the room's true colors. Where can mirrors be useful? When using mirrors in staging, a dash of imagination can be useful. Don’t think just in terms of where a mirror might be practical for everyday use—think instead of where a mirror can be most useful to give the room an illusion of space, where it might function to reflect light, and where it might best add a touch of drama by emphasizing a focal point of the room. Consider home staging with fireplace features. While a fireplace is often the central feature in a room, a mirror over it can help to add even more emphasis to this fixture. The same might go for hanging a mirror over a bed—a mirror can draw the eye without detracting from the focal point of the room. A mirror can also work well opposite a window, or above a low table or sofa, where it can help balance the room. Mirrors can also be useful in the rooms where you already use them. When staging a bathroom for sale, consider whether another mirror can help enlarge or brighten the space. Countertop-to-ceiling mirrors over a vanity can help emphasize the room’s size, and a mirror near a bathtub is functional while also creating the sense that the bathroom is larger—a major selling point for many buyers. Where can I get help staging for sale near me? At Heidi Ross Design, our professionals specialize in staging luxury homes for sale. Our experts help clients in the Greater Mid-South area—including Memphis, Bartlett, Southaven, Olive Branch, and Hernando. We help sellers get their best sale terms and price by helping potential buyers see themselves living in your home . We’re with you every step of the way—from your staging consultation to the rearranging and staging of your home, to listing photographs/videos and more. Whether you’re staging a vacant home or an occupied one, we have the know-how to make it look its best, both in-person and in listing photos and 360 virtual tours. Want to know more? We offer a free quote to help you get a sense of how we can help you. Or, if you’re ready to set up a consultation, give us a call at 901-361-7419—we’re here to help you today! **Disclaimer** Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk.  If you’re trying to stage your home for sale, you might have questions about what can make it sell fast and for your biggest profit—and what might make it sit on the market longer than you want it to. At Heidi Ross Design, our certified experts are here to help you as you go through the process of staging and selling your home. Our training and experience has taught us what to do—and what to avoid.
Here, Heidi Ross--a certified Professional Real Estate Stager and our owner, lead stager, and designer—breaks down five top things to keep in mind as your stage and show your home. 1. Avoid too many accessories! It’s always better to have one large dramatic accent than several small ones. When buyers walk in, they want to feel that their new potential home is large, spacious, and welcoming, and while it might seem like a good idea to fill the room with multiple accents that make it feel lived in, this actually has the opposite effect. Extra accessories can make a space feel tight and cluttered, and can leave buyers with the feeling that the house is too cramped. While you don’t want a bare room—which doesn’t provide scale and can feel too small—paring down and choosing accents thoughtfully can help buyers envision the space. 2. Avoid the darkness: think light and bright. Buyers touring a home want to purchase their own little “slice of heaven”—well-lit, full of light, and pleasant to be in. When entering a dark room, buyers have a negative reaction, and are turned off of the space. Light and bright homes look larger and inviting—dark rooms can look smaller, less pleasant, and uncomfortable. Rooms can be transformed by adding extra incandescent lighting, opening window shades, and/or painting the room a lighter neutral color. Some simple steps can increase sources of light and make a room quickly more appealing. 3. Avoid bad or cheap smells. While you might have stopped noticing smells in your home, they’ll be new to buyers. Smell can have a big impact on how they perceive the space, so make sure your home is free of mold, human, and pet odors. But don't just cover up smells with cheap plug-ins—these tend to make matters worse. These scents are often overwhelming, and because of the close association between smell and memory, can make a home seem dated. Fresh air or a light, gentle essential oil can help to lend a fresh, positive scent. But remember—the best smell to display is a truly clean home! 4. Avoid personal non-decorative items. Leaving items like mail, laundry, or other daily-living items in plain sight can majorly take away from how your home looks—this is especially important for those doing occupied home staging. When buyers see these items, they’ll look like clutter, and can make the home feel like there’s not enough storage—which devalues the home. So when you’re staging a kitchen, make sure to get those dishes washed and put away, and to put away the clutter that collects on countertops. And when bedroom staging, tuck away laundry, clothes, jewelry, and other personal items. This is especially important in photographing a space—when you want a home to look roomy, virtual staging can be a great tool when done by a professional, but also shows buyers every out-of-place item in great detail. 5. Avoid a mediocre clean home. The cleaner your home is, the more valuable and well-maintained it appears. Buyers are there to imagine themselves in the space, and even if it seems that no one will notice crumbs in a drawer or dog hair in a rug, buyers will see it—and it can make the space feel dirty and tired. Not getting the house extremely clean prior to staging and marketing is the biggest mistake a seller can make! Where can I get help staging my home for sale? Staging houses for real estate can be challenging—but it doesn’t have to be. At Heidi Ross Design, we walk our clients through every step of the process as they sell their luxury homes. Whether you’re staging a vacant or an occupied home, we’re here with the expertise and experience to help you sell your house for the biggest profit. When you’re ready to get started, use our tool for a free quote, or contact us online or over the phone. We’re here to help you through this process. **Disclaimer** Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk.  If you’re in the process of selling your home, you might be facing a number of expenses. From cleaning costs to do-it-yourself updates around the house, the costs might be piling up—and for many sellers, it can seem like a good solution to cut corners in order to make the most profit and have the most money in your pocket to put into your new dream home.
 When it comes to staging your home, you might find yourself thinking of those big-ticket items: changing colors, bringing in new furniture, or removing and taking out current decorations. And while these are big things that help sellers to get their homes sold and off the market, there are other factors that go into staging houses for real estate value—some of them small enough that you might not think of them.
One of these important factors? Smell. Believe it or not, the smell of a home can majorly impact how buyers think of a space, which can help sell your home for maximum profit. Here, we’ll break down why smell matters so much and some things that can help as you prepare to sell. Why does smell matter? Smell is an important sense—it can help you detect dangers, like gas leaks, fires, or spoilage in food. It’s closely linked to taste, and is important in allowing that sense to function fully. But smell has other important features—even more than sight, hearing, or taste, smell is the sense most related to memory and emotion. You might have experienced the ways that scents can trigger memories—maybe you’ve smelled freshly baked cookies and suddenly remembered scenes of your own past. Smell is also important to emotion—perfume and scent companies specifically produce scents intended to make you feel a certain way. While this emotional reaction varies from person to person—some may find a perfume pleasant, others may dislike it—there are some smells that have fairly general appeal, and smell good to nearly everyone. At the bottom of the “smell good” list were the super 70’s popular musk and patchouli. How does smell impact buyers’ impression of a home? When buyers tour a home, they’re often looking for reasons to rule it out—and it’s easy to give them reasons to. A violently orange wall or a bare room can make a potential buyer lose interest—and the same goes for strong smells. In recent years, strong air fresheners or artificial scents have fallen out of favor, and can make even the most modern house feel dated, as buyers remember when they were in style. Smells can take over even the largest house, and might be totally overwhelming when staging a small house. More trendy smells? Buyers love fresh air. And if there’s any scent at all, some stagers recommend using essential oils—like eucalyptus or lemongrass. These are generally inoffensive, and have the advantage of being frequently used in places like hotels—many buyers may have memories associated with them from past trips. These pleasant associations can make it easier to sell the house. What scents can help move my home on the market? Essential oils like orange, lemon, and lavender can be a pleasant, non-overwhelming scent, and have the advantage of being useful for getting rid of lingering scents trapped in wood furniture or baseboards. But another scent that can help move a home? Fresh paint. This often gives buyers the sense that a house has been newly touched-up and is fresh and ready to go. Paint has the advantage of covering lingering odors, like cat litter or kitchen grease—a strong scent that can take away from the visual impact when staging a kitchen. Some primers, like those from Kilz and Zinsser, are specifically designed to block odors, and some paints, like those from Sherwin Williams Harmony, can help absorb new odors. What services are there to help scent my home? If you aren’t sure what scents to pick, you aren’t alone—some companies exist to help you with this process. Some provide ambient scent, or a gentle background scent designed to produce a specific mood in the buyers—one that you can help choose. Even better, some include an odor-neutralizing additive called Mezatene in their scents and diffusers. This can eliminate any bad smells, while the diffuser gently puts off a good one. How can Heidi Ross Design help me? Wondering “where can I find a company that can help with staging for sale near me?” At Heidi Ross Design, we put our experience to use helping stage and sell luxury homes in the Memphis area—including Germantown, Cordova, Bartlett, and other locations in the Greater Mid-South region. We can stage occupied or vacant homes to help you maximize your profit. And if you’re looking for virtual staging companies near me, we’re here to help you as you prepare your home to show online. When you’re ready to get started, contact us for a free quote—we’re here to help. **Disclaimer** Please be advised that all content, including Blog articles, on the website https://www.heidirossdesign.com is for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. No guarantees are made and the use of the website, content, and any information provided is to be used at your own risk. |
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