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New Construction and Home Staging is Alive and Well in Tulsa Oklahoma!
Tulsa is having a great home selling season in 2010. Lots of homes have been sold and new construction is alive and kicking. Tulsa is a great city and a beautiful place to live.
I have posted a few before and after photos of a new construction that was staged by us - Staging Tulsa home stager in Tulsa. The 'before' photos are last. The elctricity was not on yet.
What a difference a home staging makes!
Great Photos are like Great Home Stagings
Home Staging is all about a great presentation and helping home shoppers with a great connection.
Guess what… so are the internet photos.
Let me ask you a few questions. The two photos are of the same room that was staged by our Staging Tulsa home stager, which master bedroom can you ‘feel’ or envision yourself living in? Which one offers you more connection to the room? How do your internet photos look or how do you want them to look?
Today, the internet is where we shop for homes. Think for a moment of your listing photos as your property’s ‘store front’. Think of a real estate search site as ‘The Mall’ and your property listing is a store within The Mall. At The Mall, shoppers walk by looking in the stores, checking out what is in the display window to see if they are interested in going inside. This is exactly what happens with home buyers. Thanks to iPhones, lap tops office PCs and home PCs, we can cover many ‘stores’ in a small amount of time, almost any time we want.
There are many homes for sale… which photos will catch the eyes of the home buyer… will it be yours?
Lots of traffic is the number one goal of your listing photos. If your photos are not generating traffic then there is something that needs attention… talk to your Realtor.
Great Photos are like Great Home Stagings,
they invite a home buyer to pick up the phone and call their Realtor.
Home Staging TIPS for your 'For Sale by Owner' Home
There is lots of work to be done if you are selling your home on your own. The old 'sign in in the front yard' is just the beginning! Here are a few reminders.
#1. Show a SQUEAKY CLEAN house - this includes cabinets and closets.
#2. Get ready to LIVE squeaky clean every day your house is on the market! Everyday, Remember to make your bed, take a small sack and go through the house and collect clutter (just takes 3 minutes), empty kitchen sink, etc. Buyers love well kept homes!
#3. Stage your home to sell. Refresh your home with new sofa pillows, new fireplace screen, new neutral comforter sets and fresh towels. New furnishings will give a house a 'well cared for' feeling. Is there too much furniture in the house? This will it make seem cramped and look small. Are your window treatments open? Bright and airy sells homes.
Are your furnishings dated? pack them away, they are presenting your house to buyers with an 'I'm an old house' look - this is a very negative effect. Just take them out! This will also give your home the 'less crowded' feel that you want.
#4. The outside of your home is as important as the inside. EVEN in the winter months. Don't skimp, use a great mulch and use plenty of it. Keep your front entrance swept - every day. This area is the buyer's first impression - make it a great one.
#5. Market you home well! Home Staging IS marketing.
These home staging tips from Staging Tulsa will get you off to a great beginning with your For Sale by Owner home...
oh, and still put the sign in the front yard ;)
Good Luck!
Peggy Givens, Tulsa's Home Stager
Peggy Givens is a home stager with STAGING TULSA serving the greater Tulsa Oklahoma area, including Broken Arrow, Bixby, Catoosa, Claremore, Coweta, Glenpool, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Tulsa and Wagoner. Please visit our web site www.stagingtulsa.com or call 918-520-7565.
Home Stagers Help Dreaming & Imagination Come to Life
Home Stagers Help Dreaming & Imagination Come to Life
This Rental Property has been Transformed and is Now Ready to Sell!
Everything in this cute cottage style home was cleaned, painted AND repaired. Just this step alone, will give home sellers a great launch into the real estate market with an edge on their competition. BUT, some smart sellers will take selling to the next step which is: HOME STAGING.
Home staging brings to the table an entirely different dimension in the 'selling' process. Once a home has been staged, dreaming & imagination come to life... it is called suggestive selling or marketing.
Smart home sellers realize that the sale of their property begins on the Internet. Either on the PC at lunch break or iPhone while waiting at the doctors office, this is the NEW WAY TO SHOP FOR HOMES TODAY.
An empty house offers nothing to the buyer except the ability to see ALL of the home's flaws. A staged home allows buyers vision and imagination. Your great staged INTERNET PHOTOS will bring buyers to your property and once inside, buyers begin to dream.
(And remember: the first 30 days your home is on the market, is the very best time to get it sold!)
Peggy Givens, Tulsa Oklahoma Home Stager
Peggy Givens is a home stager with STAGING TULSA serving the greater Tulsa Oklahoma area, including Broken Arrow, Bixby, Catoosa, Claremore, Coweta, Glenpool, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Tulsa and Wagoner. Please visit our web site www.stagingtulsa.com or call 918-520-7565.
I can stage it myself. Why do I need a Home Stager's help?
Other than the fact that I didn't have a very good camera at the time, these home staging before and after photos show why it can be much better for the sale of your home, to bring in a professional home stager. Let me explain.
In this photo, the home owner had staged her house herself. Before she had scheduled with us, this home owner had gone through the house and packed up items she felt were not necessary in showing her home. Her fellow Realtors then toured the home, confirming it's readiness. It was still too taste specific (personal taste).
Okay, now think about this: How can someone depersonalize their own home when they are the ones who decorated it in the first place? It is a personalized home and trying to take oneself out of the home is virtually impossible. True, you can bring friends over, but are they going to know what needs to stay, what needs to go and where it all needs to be placed for a sellable presentation? Are they concerned with hurting your feelings? This is where you could drop the ball with preparing your home for the real estate market.
Home Staging is not decorating... it is MARKETING. Knowing and understanding this concept is the beginning of selling your home quicker and for more profit.
Take a look at the photo again. Do you find yourself looking at the things in the home (lower pic) or can you see how much easier it is to see the HOUSE (above pic) and not the decorating.The room look much larger too.
PLUS, this may not be a style you like at all and getting past it may be difficult. This personal style is BRANDING this home with its style. Here is why.
90% of home buyers cannot visualize their things in your home. They will use what is or is not in the home for help in trying to 'see' in their minds eye, what their furnishings will look like and how they will or will not fit things into the house. 10% are left with the ability to visualize.
Be sure to ask your self: how does my house and yard look and how do the internet photos look?
And don't forget, home staging is MARKETING.
Hope to talk to you soon.
~ Peggy
Tulsa Home Stagers
Doggie Doors - Take 'em or Leave 'em
Doggie doors are one on the greatest inventions of ALL time. My cats use their "window door" all of the time. It was so nice to finally get them trained... now I am free. But, what if I don't have a dog or cat - this means I will need to replace the door after I move in. Home owners today generally don't have the time or energy to make changes to their newly purchased home right at or soon after they move in.. Most likely, they have been busy updating THEIR OWN home for sale and now don't want to buy a house that will need more of the same... at least not right away. Most everything you will do to your house in preparation to sale, will bring you great returns... including a sale!
If you can, replace doggie doors before you list especially if it is on the inside of the home. These are the doors that are easier to replace. In this photo, the homeowner had this hollow core door replaced and it took this room from looking like a room next to the garage (this door went into the laundry room) to looking "dressed" to be simply a nice sellable room.
Put your self behind the home buyer's eyes.
Think about what they may want, not what you have liked while you lived in and loved this home.
No more doggie door!
This room looks fresh with no sign of pets.
The home owners also took out the cabinet over the counter to give this potential office area a look of sophistication.
This is what HOME STAGING is all about.
Most everything you do to your house in preparation to sale, will bring you great returns... including a sale!
Peggy Givens, Tulsa's Home Stager
