Partial Staging, or Which Rooms to Stage

Do you need to stage every room in your home? Can the home stager work within your budget? If you were to only have a few rooms staged which would be the most important for your home? Why?

These are questions you should be able to ask your home stager. Every home is different, and the answers to these questions reflect that. Now, it’s important to remember that home staging is an investment (it’s never going to be dirt cheap, and you should be wary of a stager who won’t honestly discuss the costs involved), but it’s an investment that can help hasten your sale and help raise the offered price.  

A stager should be willing to work with you to create a plan that works for your home, and your budget. If you are in a situation where you only are going to stage a few of your rooms, it’s my job to help advise you on which rooms will have the most impact – and this will completely depend on your home, and it’s layout.

In the case of this recent staging, we staged the first two rooms you would see upon entering. Helping to create a flow through the home, and giving the potential buyer a warm first impression. These are also “functional stagings”, many buyers put a high value on the dining and living rooms, and it’s important that they can gauge these spaces by their function.

Though this was a three bedroom house, we chose to only stage one of them. When the potential buyer looked at the other empty bedrooms, they could call back to this one to help them guage what the others might look like.

 But why this bedroom?

This one had a very unique shape, and ceiling, becuase of this the room appeared much smaller when empty. Out of all the bedrooms it was the most difficult to visualize without furniture as reference.

 We also the covered seating area. This created a focal point for the backyard, and also showcased something that would be considered a luxery feature, one that adds value to the home.

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