Home Staging with Accessories

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Home Staging with Accessories Home Staging with Accessories by Nathan Jelovich

If you haven't heard of home staging yet, you're missing the new trend in real estate to get your house sold faster and at a better price. Essentially, home stagers work on different levels, depending on what the homeowner (now home seller) decides, but with the same goal in mind: get the home sold quickly and at the right price. The differing levels depend largely on how much the client wants to spend to get their home in top selling condition. However, a home stager should never be left out of the equation and their suggestions, though sound pricey, are always better than having your home go through a series of price reductions.

Generally, the first level of home staging is fairly basic: rearranging and using only the current home's furnishings and accessories. However, this proves cumbersome and is often avoided because the main idea behind home staging is to make the house appeal to the most amounts of people. The home needs that universal appeal characteristic of model homes and magazines. That's the look were going for; something that appeals to the most amount of people the most amount of time, therefore getting the most amount of results.

So, one of the first steps most home stagers will do when they work with a client is to 'de-clutter' and organize, making the space look open and clean and ready to be used. Essentially, home stagers are looking to get rid of anything that does not fit that universal appeal, and this can entail many of the homeowner's personal furnishings and accessories.

With those cleaned up and gone home stagers then move on to the second level: using some of the homeowner's items as well as items from their own inventory accrued through their business. These accessories range from furniture such as couches, chairs, tables and even patio and outdoor furniture to smaller items such as cookbooks, wall mirrors, flowers , vases and wall art. With a stager's inventory in place, the home now appeals to a broader audience, expanding the number of people interested in the piece of real-estate and who are willing to make an offer.

However, there is one other level that more and more home stagers are beginning to work on: vacant home staging. Essentially, vacant home staging is setting and staging a home that has no furnishings and accessories, requiring the stager to use only their inventory and resources. This is a difficult market for some home stagers because it requires a larger amount of inventory to give the house its universal appeal. Many home stagers have neither the inventory nor resources to fill a house and make it look comfortable to buyers.
Home stagers work on different levels of home design, which all require different levels of business aptitude. Home staging is still in some of its infant stages of business, but is most likely soon to explode into a standard practice, possibly even a requirement for successful home selling.

Brass tacks? Home stagers need good deals on good inventory that will last hundreds of home stagings without wearing out or needing replacement. Whether its furniture or accessories, couches, chairs and coffee tables or decorations, framed art and floral centerpieces, home stagers can incorporate them all to sell your house faster and for a better price. Home stagers understand, it?s all in the look. Like a fine-art-print, getting the perfect look takes time and resources, but is well worth the investment.

Nathan Jelovich is an online art consultant working with home stagers and decorators and an art research writer at Imagekind.com where he specializes in different art styles, art genres and art prints.

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