Beginners Home Staging Made Easy & Fast In 5 Steps

Beginners Home Staging Made Easy & Fast In 5 Steps

by Tom Squires

If you follow these five steps, you will be well on your way to become a professional Home Stager.

Step #1 Overcoming Fear Get over the fear of staging someone else's home. Are you holding yourself back because deep down you're afraid that you won't always know what changes to make when you're actually staging someone's home? You'll realize that you are making a difference and are really helping the sellers sell their house.

Sellers may already have made repairs, repainted, and cleaned the carpets. But they don't always realize the power of small details.

You as a "Stager" can make all the difference in this market and help the seller sell the home.

Sellers always want to sell their home quickly and for as much money as possible. Home staging has the power to help the seller arrive at their goals and you're helping them do this.

Also, as an added plus, you as a Home Stager are helping the Buyer visualize themselves as living there.

Step#2 Your Designing Objective Always keep in mind that you are "designing to sell," not "designing to live. Home Staging (House Staging, House Fluffing, House Primping) is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar.

Step#3 Making Mistakes Aren't sure how to avoid the common home staging pitfalls? You don't have to worry about making mistakes, because you'll be getting more excellent information from the more experienced who have, through trial and error, learned the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. They will be passing their experience on to you. A well designed and complete check list helps to make sure you've done your job well.

Step#4 Your Worth Understand from the more experienced and get an insight into what your services are worth. This will give you confidence so you will have a solid foundation to grow your real estate staging business.

Step#5 Common Sense and Tip#1 Use your common sense. Just stand at the front door and think like you're the buyer and imagine what they see when they walk inside. Most likely, when they walk in they see that the house is too "cluttered". Therefore, your first task is to remove what is obviously in your way. Repeat this as you go from room to room. When you're done, the path opens up and you can actually see what the rooms (though they are now "uncluttered") really look like. The added benefit of removal of items is that the house packing is getting underway.

When you successfully stage a home what you are really doing is to set the stage for potential buyers to fall in love with it and say "this is the home we want!"

Tip#2 Why Your Are So Needed? You, are the key to getting houses sold because the real estate market is flat. Real estate agents and sellers desperately need your services to speed up the house sale. Instead of taking months and sometimes years to sell, with house staging, prospective buyer are easier and more eager to buy. The result is a quicker house sale.