One of the services that our real estate company provides to its home seller clients is home staging services.
For those that don’t know, a home stager is a person that will go through the home, room by room
and give the seller a plan for organizing the furniture, decluttering the room and
depersonalizing it so that when a potential buyer comes into the home, they can see it in its
best possible light. In some cases, a renovation will need to occur and we’ve worked on these in
the past with our clients, by offering coordination with our team of trusted vendors.
Below are examples of some of the staging jobs we have helped our clients with as well as some of
the homes we’ve helped our clients renovate.
Top 5 DIY Staging Tips from a Home Stager
Decluttering and Organizing
These steps get you closer to being presentation and moving ready. Take things one room at a time and organize furnishings and items into KEEP, DONATE, and TRASH. Remember that closet space left open on the floor is most coveted. If you can create floor space in the closets, it gives the illusion of bigger closets!
Pre-Inspection and Common Inspection Items
Having a pre-inspection by a certified home inspector would be recommended so you can start to tackle any disparities before a buyer's inspection catches them.
Deep Cleaning
This is something that can be easily done overtime and on your own. Magic erasers make a huge difference in walls, cabinets, and baseboards. Dusting ceiling fans and air vents. Thoroughly cleaning ovens and appliances. Don't forget outside cleaning!
Neutralizing Paint Colors
Neutralizing paint colors is one of the FIRST things stagers like to point out. BUT WAIT, before you go to Home Depot and buy the first greige that you see, TALK TO A STAGER! They can quickly and virtually (even just by photos sometimes) recommend a paint color that will complement the other elements of your room (i.e. flooring and natural light).
Light Fixtures and Hardware
Use the same color temperature lighting throughout the house (around 2700K–3000K warm white) so rooms feel cohesive and welcoming rather than patchy or harsh.
Here is our interview with our in-house certified stager, Angél Rodenbeck, on the importance of staginga home for sale in Austin’s hot real estate climate
We wanted to showcase why we do a video walkthrough on a seller's home. It's not just so that the potential buyer has a virtual tour of the home. It's a lot more than that. But before we do that, I am joined here by my wife, co-owner, and certified stager with Spyglass Realty, Angél Rodenbeck. I'm going to go over a few questions about the process with her. So, honestly, tell me your process for home staging Austin once we get a signed listing agreement from a seller.
The Process for Home Staging Austin
Once we get a signed listing agreement from the seller, I'll reach out to them and schedule a staging consultation and that just depends on the amount of work that they're wanting to put into the home, the amount of, the amount of work that's needed. It can be anywhere from an hour where I just walked through the home and go room by room and detail out exactly the items that we need to pull out, things that spyglass needs to bring, repairs that need to be made. From that kind of basic home staging Austin appointment, all the way to, if they have a budget for renovations, then we'll go over, improvements that will be made that will make the most bang for the buck. Replacing countertops, floors, any number of things.
It's basically a plan for the salary, get their house ready so they don't have to do any guesswork.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
As soon as I pull up to the house, I am making mental notes of things because I am basically looking at it as a buyer. I'm pulling up to the house and I'm looking at the condition of the exterior. Is it attractive? What's the curb appeal like? Do they need to have a fresh coat of paint on their front door? New exterior lights? What's their landscaping like? I'm taking all those mental notes and then I'm documenting it in our staging consultation form that's provided to the client.
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