The more people I talk to about home staging the more blank looks I get!
Come on special South Africans, the property market is flooded with hundreds of choices for any buyer and you are letting yourselves down by marketing an unstaged home. Now I know that might seem like a rough way to start this blog post, but hopefully it got your attention.
If you are selling your home or considering putting your home in the running to be sold, let me shed some light on home staging and how it would add countless value to your home and your wallet by the time the hammer drops.
Home staging – To make your property as appealing as possible to as many people as possible. Never used as a tool to hide or disguise damage or imperfections in the home.
If you do a google search on home staging South Africa, you will be able to read many articles raving about the advantages of home staging and many warning you against it. Personally, I think it comes down to the person you hire. Like with any trade, the person makes the business and produces the results, or doesn’t.
Home staging for me is a simple way to add that edge to your home while it is on display to the market. I thought I would give myself a little challenge to stage our bedroom at home, within an hour (our son was having his pm nap), only using decor items from other parts in our home. Our bedroom hasn’t had any attention paid to it since we moved in three years again as we are wanting to renovate and don’t want to spend money in the meantime. That, being said, I am not proud of the before photos below…
To transform our main bedroom into somewhere any buyer would like to take a nap and call their bedroom, I decided to get rid of as much red as possible and replace it with neutrals and greens. The bedside lamps also needed attention as one was not working and the other had no lampshade. As I have said before, I am not proud of this..
Besides me buying new lampshades, this styling really did only take me an hour even with spray painting the lamp stands white. 😉
I’m not sure about you, but I know which bedroom I prefer! Home staging is a wonderful way to bring out the best of your home, declutter, clean and add some sparkle. Even if I never have the privilege of staging your home, I hope this blog has shown you how simple a transformation can be and always add the extra cushion! 😉
Bravo! Beautiful transformation.