Benefits of a Home Staging Consultation - Part 2

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.

What happens before the home staging consultation?

If you’ve been getting your home ready to sell, you’ve probably already taken steps towards getting it market-ready before the stager arrives. Updates to fixtures or paint, repairs to the home, or decluttering have a big impact on your home’s value—and might cut down on the work that needs to be done between the consultation and staging your home.  

Before the consultation, Heidi Ross design offers a unique service—our free quote provides you with the information you need to be fully informed about what our staging and marketing package includes. This is a commitment-free way to help you know that you are making the right choice to work with a professional stager.

What happens during the staging consultation?

A consultation is usually a walk-and-talk. During this meeting, you guide the stager through your home, beginning with the first thing your potential buyers will see—the front of the house! Remember that buyers are looking for reasons to say no to a home—they want to purchase their “dream home” so the stager will look for “red flags” - reasons a potential buyer will say “no” to buying your home, like neglected landscaping or worn out exterior siding etc...

As you walk through the home, the stager will make recommendations about things that could be repaired, updated, added, minimized, or changed to boost the home’s value. This is a very thorough tour—the stager will even look in closets and drawers to see everything a buyer will most likely be looking at as well. With Heidi Ross Design, the consultation lasts about an hour—enough time to get a full experience of what a critical buyer will be making notes about.

What might the stager recommend?

Home stage design is about more than arranging furniture—that’s why the stager will make detailed recommendations about how to get your home up to its best potential. This could mean recommendations for repairs—like fixing holes in the wall or peeling caulking around sinks and tubs—or updates to make the space feel fresher, like replacing outdated hardware or features. When home staging with fireplace areas, for example, the stager might recommend refreshing or updating fireplace and hearth finishes.

The stager might also recommend a new paint color. Neutral colors make the room feel brighter, and will appeal to a wide range of audiences—while you might love your bright pink bedroom, staging your home probably means it’s time to substitute it for a color that appeals to everyone.  Painting in neutral colors is an inexpensive way to improve a home's sales potential and will help make it look good in photos when virtually staging a room.  

You’ll likely talk about cleaning and decluttering, too—no matter how clean or pared down your home already is, it might seem like you can always do more. Extra objects make the space seem smaller, and any less-than-spotless areas make the buyer think that the home hasn’t been cared for—and buyers want the feeling of spaciousness and a well-maintained home. The stager will recommend which furniture or objects should be removed and what areas, with a little more cleaning, will help boost the home’s appeal.

What happens after the consultation?

After the consultation, it’s time to set to work on those repairs, updates, or changes/improvements, to get your home in tip-top shape. If you’d like to hire professionals to paint or clean, most stagers can point you in the right direction to find a reputable company or crew. And if you’re overwhelmed with the work that needs to be done, Heidi Ross design can provide a proposal for a mini-makeover, or supplemental staging package, to help you out.

I’m ready to get started—how can Heidi Ross Design help me?  

At Heidi Ross Design, we put our expertise to work for clients in Memphis, Collierville, Germantown, and the greater Memphis metro. Our certified professionals will help you get your house looking its best so that you and  your Real Estate Broker get off to a great sale and get your house sold. Best of all? Our FREE quote is a commitment-free way to see all the value that Heidi Ross Design will bring to your home—just use our online quote tool, or give us a call at (901) 361-7409

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