Cheryl Lynne’s Designs
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Staging
Less is more
A lot of home-sellers make the mistake of
adding accessories to a house to make it
look more luxurious. Instead, the house ends
up looking cluttered, and the accessories
look out of place.
Let the staff at CLD guide you through how
to make the house look every bit as good as
it can.
Pre-defined spaces
Most home buyers can’t imagine a different
use for a room from what it is when they
walk through the house for the 1st time. A
room without an obvious purpose leaves
them confused and thus less likely to be
enthusiastic about the house.
As part of our staging service, CLD ensures
each room has a clear purpose and feels
spacious and inviting.
After 15 minutes, the rest is fluff
Houses, just like people, only have one chance to make a first
impression. Fortunately, what the prospective buyers are looking
for is relatively predictable. The down-side is that a buyer needs
to see those things in the first 15 minutes of the walk-through.
At that point the buyers have made up their mind, and anything
else they see merely re-enforces their decision.
Making a house look like a million dollars (figuratively at least)
in under 15 minutes is easier than it may seem.
By ensuring that a house projects a level of quality and luxury,
you can help realize the maximum return on your house-sale as
well as keep the time on the market to a minimum. The process
of making a house shine is referred to as “staging”.
CLD’s staging experts can help make your house look spacious
and inviting. We can arrange temporary storage for your
personal items and excess furniture, we can locate size-
appropriate furniture for rent, and we can make sure it all
comes together for an optimal sales-result.
Sometimes staging is not enough...
Because home-buyers have been “trained” (by HGTV etc) to be
on the look-out for a fixed set of features, it may be necessary
to add some of those to the house in order to make it sell well.
The consultants at Cheryl Lynne’s Designs can go over this list of
features with you, and together we can determine whether to
upgrade the home before sale. CLD’s designers are very familiar
with the cost of doing these upgrades, and whether or not they
would raise the value of the home enough to offset the cost.
The most common pre-sale upgrades are
- Stainless built-in appliances for the kitchen, esp. a microwave
- Granite or quartz countertops
- Double vanities in the master-bathroom
- Changing out dated fixtures & lighting (incl. shower-doors)