Staging
Furnishing and decorating a home to make it more appealing to buyers. Some stagers bring their own furniture. Others work with what's already there.
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Why a seller cares
Staging arranges the home so buyers see space and light instead of your life. It can be a professional with a truck or an afternoon of moving furniture out, and the photos are where it earns its cost.
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A simple example
A stager rearranges three rooms, removes half the furniture and adds lamps, for $800. The living room photo goes from crowded to wide.
| The approach | What it costs, roughly |
|---|---|
| Using what you own, decluttered and rearranged | A weekend and a storage unit |
| A consultation and a few rented pieces | Several hundred to a couple thousand dollars |
| Full staging of a vacant home | A few thousand a month |
Staging is editing. Most of it is taking things out.
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What people get wrong
That staging is decorating. It is the opposite: removing the personal so a buyer can imagine their own.
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Where it appears in the sale
What a definition is, and what it isn't
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