First Impressions Count

For a homeowner planning to sell their home hiring a certified home staging professional can be money well spent.  Home stagers are design specialist who will highlight the best features of your home to attract potential buyers.  For homeowners on a budget a consultation may be all that is necessary to help improve the appearance of your home.  Here are some tips for sellers to remember when it comes time to sell your real estate.

View your home as a potential buyer will.  Drive up to your house.  What do you see?  Is the yard mowed?  Do the scrubs need trimming?  Are there items in the yard that should be removed?  The first impression that someone will see as they approach your home can be a lasting one.  Simple improvements like cleaning a deck can determine whether a potential buyer will even step a foot inside your home.

Inside the home the two most important words are declutter and clean.  First remove any clutter that will distract a potential buyer and leave a poor impression of your home.  Next you need to clean, clean, and clean.  Remember to clean the windows and the drapes.  The amount of light entering the rooms can have a big impact on how people feel about the space.

In the article “Creating  Buyer  Appeal  With Home Staging” realtor Adrian Goslett  points out that “Sellers need to go the extra mile to make their house as appealing as possible, especially if the market is slow.  It needs to be clean, inviting and exciting for the potential buyers to view.  Not only do they need to want your home but they need to want it more than any other homes for sale in your area.”

Here at Stage2amaze we offer customized staging services for everyone from a do-it-yourself home stager to a complete interior redesign.  We provide a plan for both occupied and vacant home staging and we work with both home sellers and realtors to transform your property inside and out for maximum curb appeal.

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Cost Of Home Staging Fully Recovered

The first impression that a potential buyer has when they view a property can make all the difference as to whether they are interested in a second look.  Home staging by a professional interior redesigner can make your home stand out and feel welcoming.

A few moments is all you have to capture a buyers interest.  As a marketing tool home staging showcases the best features of your property while decluttering and arranging the space to provide the best first impression.

Many home sellers question whether home staging by an accredited staging professional is worth the additional cost.  As Elle Mackenna notes in her article "Is Home Staging Worth It?", "The answer is absolutely.  Home staging is worth the extra cost for any home but especially when the profit margin is smaller.  Three percent is three percent and whether a home is for sale at $100,000 or $1,000,000, the return applies universally."

The increase in selling price that results when a home is staged by a home staging professional allows the seller to completely recover any cost associated with home staging and sell their home more quickly.  As one of the top home staging companies in the Indianapolis area we at Stage2amaze are ready to provide home staging consultation and services that will fit your budget and sell your home faster.

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Home Staging - Not Just For Home Sellers!

Not just home sellers and real estate agents are using the services of Certified Home Stagers these days.  Buyers are also hiring professional home stagers to declutter, rearrange and organize a newly purchased home or a newly constructed home.  Home staging is often recommened by real estate agents when a property comes available to sell.  The seller hires an interior redesigner to rearrange and depersonalize the home so that it will appeal to a greater number of potential buyers.  This will help the home sell faster and for more money.

Some sellers are finding that the same interior design expertise that helped to focus attention on the best features of their old home can be utilized to organize their newly purchased home or newly constructed home.  Dr. Phillip Patel states in his testimonial that he was so impressed with the impeccable taste of Stage2amaze that he rehired our home staging company to decorate his new home.  But instead of removing the personality of the seller to increase the homes appeal to potential buyers we worked with the new home owner to organize and arrange their old furnishings to fit their new environment.

As Michelle Andrews notes in her article "Act II for Home Stagers.."  The term""Staging to live", as it's called, is the logical next step.  Having come to appreciate the clean, uncluttered look the stager achieved in their old homes, sellers are rehiring stagers to work the same magic in their new home."  Staging a new home will help the home owner dispose of clutter and make the right choices about arranging pieces to fit their new space.

At Stage2amaze we bring our extensive knowledge of real estate and our natural ability for interior design together to serve our clients in the Indianapolis and Fishers area.  As Accredited Staging Professionals some of the top dollar producing real estate agents are our satisfied customers.  Whether it is helping a seller or a realtor achieve a quick, top dollar home sale or helping a buyer to decorate a newly purchased or constructed home, we are ready to amaze you with our creative and extraordinary expertise in interior design.

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Home Staging And Decorating Color Basics

When working with home staging professionals like the stylists at Stage2Amaze in Indianapolis, Indiana remember color can be an important addition to your home. Besides the great work of your home stagers you should thank Sir Isaac Newton for discovering the first color wheel. By realizing that white light contains a full spectrum of colors Newton gave others the tools they needed to study color and its effects.

Newton’s first color wheel included primary colors: red, yellow and blue. Now, secondary colors of orange, green and violet are created by mixing the primary colors. With such a large spectrum of colors, remember to consider the tertiary colors, which are a combination of a secondary color with a primary color next to it. They include yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green and yellow-green.

Why is color important when staging your home? You don’t need an apple to fall from a tree and hit you on the head like Newton to realize that color can create mood, space and warmth in any home.

When working with a home stager to select paint colors its important to consider hue, value and saturation of paint colors. Hue refers to the pureness of the color, value is determined by adding white or black to create a tone and saturation refers to the purity of the hue.

Color schemes:

Home stagers like the professionals at Stage2Amaze consider the 4 ways to use colors in your home.

1. One color monochromatic, using one color in varying intensities such as shades of gray or light and dark beiges.
2. Two color complementary, using two colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel or sit directly across from each other on the wheel.
3. Three color triad, using any three colors that form a triangle in the center of the wheel.
4. Two to six colors analogous, using up to six colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel.

Let the professionals at Stage2Amaze show you how to incorporate color into your home to create warmth, excitement, and an overall sense of taste and style.

The Stage2Amaze Team!