Stage your home before putting it up for sale

Home staging is beyond decorating and cleaning your house. It's about illusions. It's about creating moods and making your house look bigger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more loving and, best of all, making home buyers want to buy it. Contrary to what you might think, it's more than preparing the house for sale. After you've cleaned, decluttered, painted, made minor repairs, you dress the house for sale. This is called Home Staging
Professional stagers are highly skilled artists. Stagers possess the skills of a top-level designer and they create dramatic scenery that appeals to all five senses. Some of the little things they do to make your home look more appealing are arranging sparse pieces of furniture in an appealing grouping known as a vignette. Showcasing a generous usage of soft fabrics such as silk, lambs wool, satin. Displaying unusual knickknacks in units of 1, 3 or 5. Draping window coverings with simple lines. Adding unique elements to shelving, bookcases and fireplace mantels, which draw attention to predetermined areas
Here are some professional staging tips. Apply orange oil to cabinets that appear dry, which will renew their original luster. Put out large bowls of fruit such as polished apples, bright oranges, luscious grapes. Arrange colorful and fun cookbooks on the counters. Bringing the outdoors inside through the use of greenery and plants is a great idea. Create a clean and crisp space and arrange the furniture with plenty of room to walk around. Bathrooms are essential to dress well. Bathrooms should look open, airy and delightful. Add baskets filled with spa treatments such as towels tied with ribbons, scented soaps, creamy lotions, moisturizing & facial jars.
The back yard needs staging, too. For patios and decks, bring in plants and potted flowers, and add additional color by setting the picnic table with bright, plastic dinner plates.
Once your home is prettily dressed up it is ready to be shown. A good real estate agent would be able to advise you if staging your home is a good idea depending on the area and the kind of buyers you are hoping to impress. If your property is around San Jose, Realtor Dale Warfel who is familiar with the area would be the right person to contact.