| A major aspect of home sales is presentation. | | | | essential to the visual impact of the home. |
| Let me rephrase that, home sales is ALL about | | | | This even applies to excess art and |
| presentation. When your home goes on the | | | | decorations and the trappings that you have |
| market it must present the best face it has | | | | chosen to make your home uniquely "you." In |
| ever had. The simple truth is that it is a | | | | order to show properly, the home should be |
| highly competitive market right now and | | | | depersonalized. Unfortunately, all those |
| sellers are looking to find any leverage that | | | | things that make your home yours can get in |
| they can in order to get their home noticed | | | | the way of a buyer feeling comfortable and |
| by the buyers. As markets around the country | | | | "at home" in your home. In an ideal situation |
| have cooled off, sellers have had to go to | | | | buyers will come into the home and have no |
| greater and greater lengths to separate their | | | | trouble seeing themselves living there. They |
| homes from the masses of other listings, and | | | | should have the ability to visualize their |
| so home staging has evolved. Home staging is | | | | furniture and decorations without the |
| now a business all to itself with companies | | | | distraction of having to mentally cancel out |
| popping up in almost every city. Home stagers | | | | portraits of the family and other overly |
| offer a good service, but you as a seller can | | | | personal items. The best course of action is |
| also do much of it yourself. | | | | to try to picture your home as a show home. |
| | | | you may have seen one or two of them in your |
| A major aspect of any home staging is the | | | | time. The one thing that is the same about |
| removal of clutter. This is easy to see in | | | | all show homes is the fact that they really |
| almost any home. For the sake of this article | | | | don't look lived in. Now this is almost |
| we will refer to it as clutter, but what you | | | | impossible to achieve in a home that is |
| are really dealing with here is signs of | | | | currently being lived in however it can be |
| life, occupation and daily use. Clutter can | | | | utilized as a bit of a guide as to what you |
| be classified as almost anything that is not | | | | can shoot for in staging the home. |