Setting the Stage

How to Stage your home: A personal lesson

Once the decision was made to sell our home this spring and "upgrade" to larger square footage the staging began. I started following the advice and check off lists I share with my clients, as well as, a wall of yellow post its covered in to dos.
The packing began, as I tell clients the way you sell your home is different from the way you live in your home. I drove around the neighborhood and priced storage units, deciding upon using my third garage bay as a storage unit instead. Next came the elbow grease. I had over purchased paint the following year and had enough to give a good once over to all the walls! Once the inside structure looked fresh, I put on my yard gloves and headed outside. Weed bucks full, plants trimmed and 7 bags of bark later, I was stopped in my tracks. I needed more bark, grrrr... This project is not done, the rain began to fall and snow surprised us followed by rain! Slight delay in our time frame.
After days of going none stop manual labor, I needed a deep tissue massage. So, I got one! Fabulous! The list goes on and on of things to do. Move furniture, paint outside trim and decking, etc... It will get done, I learned this does not occur within the ideal time frame. Life happens, weather happens, work happens, and the little things at home get put aside.
I am going to need another massage just thinking of what lies ahead!

To my future clients: I promise to give you the time and help in getting your own home staged for the market place. Staging is ESSENTIAL!! (Great blog topic for the next session-entitled staging is essential)! Looking forward to it already!!

Enjoy the sun while it sneaks out!

Annie Robinson