Hudson Valley ~ Professional Color Consultations

Picking the right paint color for your walls is never an easy choice.  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I paint my home’s walls once every five to ten years.  So, before I start painting a room there are a few simple steps I like to go through first:

1.)  Evaluate all the natural light sources that are available in a room.  Sunlight can change the look of the color scheme selection used on your walls.  For example, a lighter colored paint will reflect more sunlight than a darken one.

2.)  Evaluate all of the homes architectural features.  For example, in a living room you would want to pay close attention to a fireplace with a mantle, windows with custom molding, hardwood flooring, and heating system.  These are the features of the home that you cannot change easily and will most likely be working around.

3.)  Take into account the overall size of the room.  To make a small room appear larger, you would want to paint the walls a lighter color.  A lighter paint color will make the walls appear to recede.  Of course, you would do the opposite in an extremely large room.  You could paint a huge bedroom, a dark blue paint color with crisp white molding on the ceiling and the floor.

4.)  Evaluate the furnishing and accent pieces in the room.  Since we are staging this home to sell, any extra furniture (that do not serve a purpose) should be removed from the home.  A chair’s fabric can be used to help determine a color scheme for your room’s walls. 

I would even recommend taking a piece of fabric with you to the paint store to help in your paint selection process.  I am drawn toward warmer paint colors and like to recommend sage greens and tans to my clients.  These colors are “safer” choices for a home that is going to be placed on the market. All window moldings should be painted a high gloss white to draw your eye to them.  All ceilings over 9 feet tall should have some sort of crown molding painted a high gloss white paint as well. Of course, the paint color scheme of one room of your home needs to compliment the rest of your home.  For example, your living room should not be a warm terracota paint color and run into your kitchen that is a bright violet shade of purple.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign offer color consultations as a service.  If you are having a difficult time picking out your wall colors, we can help.  We will bring our Benjamin Moore Color Kits to your home and help you decide on the correct wall color choices.

– Kate

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign servers the Rockland County and Orange County areas of New York and Passaic County and Bergen County areas of New Jersey, please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623 for more information.  We also offer home staging, home decorating, interior design, redesign, custom wood signs, window coverings, virtual shows, and home designs.

New York Home Stager with An Extensive Accessory Collection

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign has spent the better part of this year growing their inventory colleciton to be able to stage each and every vacant home that we are asked about.   Vacant homes do not show well and up to 90% of potential home buyers cannot visualize the actual size of a room when it is empty.  In order to stage a vacant home, large furniture is needed but it is the accessories that really make a home.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign has an extensive accessory collection that allows us to stage all vacant homes from the very small to the multi-million dollar home.  Here is a brief list of all the accessories, we have at our finger tips to loan out to our clients:
    –  framed paintings and unframed paintings
    –  decorative vases of all sizes and materials
    –  silk pillows
    –  metal wall art
    –  silk floral arrangements
    –  fake palm trees (over 5 feet tall)
    –  more tables than I care to list
    –  glass bowls of all sizes
    –  metal and wood staging trays
    –  full tea sets
    –  chenille throws
    –  clocks
    –  table lamps and wall standing lamps
    –  books
    –  laptops

And of course we have towels to match any bathroom decor, we have so many silk plants and varieties for every type of home and room.

And the list just goes on and on.  Being able to offer Vacant Home Staging accessory rental to my clients is very important to me and to my business.  I have partnered with American Furniture Rental (AFR) and CORT Furniture to be able to offer furniture rentals to my clients when necessary.  Being an HSR Certified Home Stager has allowed my to form these multiple vendor partnerships, which gives my vacant home staging further choices when it comes to furniture selection. 

According to the Real Estate Staging Association, in 2007 an unstaged vacant home would sit on the market 131 days versus a staged home would sell in 42 days.  Vacant homes take more than double the time to sell which is more cost to the home sellers (mortgage, taxes, upkeep).

 If you are interested in learning more about my vacant staging services or my extensive accessory collection, please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623.   

– Kate

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

Home Staging in New Jersey and New York

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign also serves the Bergen County area of new Jersey and the Pasaic County area of New Jersey and hopes to help as many homes as possible sell quickly and attract the largest potential home buyer audience.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more on the MLS receive the most traffic, so before you have your MLS pictures takes contact Kate so she can bring her accessories to your home to stage all your rooms to ensure each room will show well on the Internet MLS.

In today’s technology driven market, the importance of the Internet cannot be overlooked.  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign offer a Full Digital Styling Package which includes accessories, room staging, digital picture taking and adjusting, and loading all your home’s pictures into a virtual show to ensure the largest pontential home buyer audience will be attracted.

There are three things that sell homes in today’s market:

1.  Your online pictures.  I have to agree with this, since over 85% of buyers are looking on the Internet first before visiting a home.  If your online home picture are not impressive, most potential buyers will not physically go to see your home.  In the age of the Internet, online marketing is very important.  Once you have perfected your online pictures, make sure buyers can locate your listing everywhere.  There are even sites that allow you to list your home for free such as Zillow.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more receive the most traffic on the Internet, so make sure your home has as many pcitures as possible online.

2.  Your home’s price.  If you are priced too high in your neighborhood, your home is not going to sell and it definitely will not sell quickly.  Your online marketing and your home’s price are the 2 most important things to get right when selling your home. This is something a qualified realtor and home stager can help you with.  To find a realtor in your area, you can go to realtor.com and take a look at the number of listings this realtor currently has.  This will help a home seller determine the realtor’s experience in your neighborhood. To find a home stager in your area, you can go to http://www.homestagingresource.com and select the Directory on the right hand side.  You can also try http://www.ashsr.comwhich is the American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners or http://www.realestatestagingassociation.com/which is the Real Estate Staging Assocation.  A staged home sells for 6-10% more money than a home that is not staged, in other words, your home could sell for $20,000 or more from a simple home staging!  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is a member in good standing of all three of the above staging associations.

3.  External Curb Appeal.  In this market, you need to have great curb appeal outside and draw potential buyers inside your home.  Please invest in some black or red mulch to make your flower beds pop and also make sure your house number is large enough and can be seem from the street.  A potential buyer will get frustrated if he/she cannot locate your home on a street because there is no number on it.  We are in a buyer’s market so please make sure the outside of your home looks neat, no debris and untidy yards.

These are the three items needed to attract a potential buyer into your home – the right price, the right online pictures, and great external curb appeal.  Of course, there are other items that influence whether your home will sell or not – like location – but we can change the above three items with some simple effort.

Once the potential buyer has entered your home please make sure your home is clean and has been maintained appropriately. Also, add some color in the form of accent pillows in your living rooms and bedrooms.  This is another very inexpensive fix to make your home look great. Also, do not overlook any simple home maintenance repairs. A leaky faucet can be fixed with a 50 cents washer and should not be overlooked if you are planning to sell your home.  Please paint stained walls, shampoo stained carpets, and clean everything twice.  You really do not want to scare off a potential buyer with a quick fix that you could do on your own in an hour or less.

If you are planning on selling your home, it is probably the largest investment you have and you need to market it as such. Spending a $1,000 – $2,000 to prepare your home for sale will help you receive top dollar for your home and could also speed up the sale of your home.

-Kate

For more information, please contact Kate at 845-538-3623 or visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

Hudson Valley Home Staging Services

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign also serves the Bergen County area of new Jersey and hopes to help as many homes as possible sell quickly and attract the largest potential home buyer audience.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more on the MLS receive the most traffic, so before you have your MLS pictures takes contact Kate so she can bring her accessories to your home to stage all your rooms to ensure each room will show well on the Internet MLS.

In today’s technology driven market, the importance of the Internet cannot be overlooked.  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign offer a Full Digital Styling Package which includes accessories, room staging, digital picture taking and adjusting, and loading all your home’s pictures into a virtual show to ensure the largest pontential home buyer audience will be attracted.

There are three things that sell homes in today’s market:

1.  Your online pictures.  I have to agree with this, since over 85% of buyers are looking on the Internet first before visiting a home.  If your online home picture are not impressive, most potential buyers will not physically go to see your home.  In the age of the Internet, online marketing is very important.  Once you have perfected your online pictures, make sure buyers can locate your listing everywhere.  There are even sites that allow you to list your home for free such as Zillow.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more receive the most traffic on the Internet, so make sure your home has as many pcitures as possible online.

2.  Your home’s price.  If you are priced too high in your neighborhood, your home is not going to sell and it definitely will not sell quickly.  Your online marketing and your home’s price are the 2 most important things to get right when selling your home. This is something a qualified realtor and home stager can help you with.  To find a realtor in your area, you can go to realtor.com and take a look at the number of listings this realtor currently has.  This will help a home seller determine the realtor’s experience in your neighborhood. To find a home stager in your area, you can go to http://www.homestagingresource.com and select the Directory on the right hand side.  You can also try http://www.ashsr.comwhich is the American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners or http://www.realestatestagingassociation.com/which is the Real Estate Staging Assocation.  A staged home sells for 6-10% more money than a home that is not staged, in other words, your home could sell for $20,000 or more from a simple home staging!  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is a member in good standing of all three of the above staging associations.

3.  External Curb Appeal.  In this market, you need to have great curb appeal outside and draw potential buyers inside your home.  Please invest in some black or red mulch to make your flower beds pop and also make sure your house number is large enough and can be seem from the street.  A potential buyer will get frustrated if he/she cannot locate your home on a street because there is no number on it.  We are in a buyer’s market so please make sure the outside of your home looks neat, no debris and untidy yards.

These are the three items needed to attract a potential buyer into your home – the right price, the right online pictures, and great external curb appeal.  Of course, there are other items that influence whether your home will sell or not – like location – but we can change the above three items with some simple effort.

Once the potential buyer has entered your home please make sure your home is clean and has been maintained appropriately. Also, add some color in the form of accent pillows in your living rooms and bedrooms.  This is another very inexpensive fix to make your home look great. Also, do not overlook any simple home maintenance repairs. A leaky faucet can be fixed with a 50 cents washer and should not be overlooked if you are planning to sell your home.  Please paint stained walls, shampoo stained carpets, and clean everything twice.  You really do not want to scare off a potential buyer with a quick fix that you could do on your own in an hour or less.

If you are planning on selling your home, it is probably the largest investment you have and you need to market it as such. Spending a $1,000 – $2,000 to prepare your home for sale will help you receive top dollar for your home and could also speed up the sale of your home.

-Kate

For more information, please contact Kate at 845-538-3623 or visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

Bergen County Home Staging Services

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign also serves the Bergen County area of new Jersey and hopes to help as many homes as possible sell quickly and attract the largest potential home buyer audience.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more on the MLS receive the most traffic, so before you have your MLS pictures takes contact Kate so she can bring her accessories to your home to stage all your rooms to ensure each room will show well on the Internet MLS.

In today’s technology driven market, the importance of the Internet cannot be overlooked.  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign offer a Full Digital Styling Package which includes accessories, room staging, digital picture taking and adjusting, and loading all your home’s pictures into a virtual show to ensure the largest pontential home buyer audience will be attracted.

There are three things that sell homes in today’s market:

1.  Your online pictures.  I have to agree with this, since over 85% of buyers are looking on the Internet first before visiting a home.  If your online home picture are not impressive, most potential buyers will not physically go to see your home.  In the age of the Internet, online marketing is very important.  Once you have perfected your online pictures, make sure buyers can locate your listing everywhere.  There are even sites that allow you to list your home for free such as Zillow.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more receive the most traffic on the Internet, so make sure your home has as many pcitures as possible online.

2.  Your home’s price.  If you are priced too high in your neighborhood, your home is not going to sell and it definitely will not sell quickly.  Your online marketing and your home’s price are the 2 most important things to get right when selling your home. This is something a qualified realtor and home stager can help you with.  To find a realtor in your area, you can go to realtor.com and take a look at the number of listings this realtor currently has.  This will help a home seller determine the realtor’s experience in your neighborhood. To find a home stager in your area, you can go to http://www.homestagingresource.com and select the Directory on the right hand side.  You can also try http://www.ashsr.comwhich is the American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners or http://www.realestatestagingassociation.com/which is the Real Estate Staging Assocation.  A staged home sells for 6-10% more money than a home that is not staged, in other words, your home could sell for $20,000 or more from a simple home staging!  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is a member in good standing of all three of the above staging associations.

3.  External Curb Appeal.  In this market, you need to have great curb appeal outside and draw potential buyers inside your home.  Please invest in some black or red mulch to make your flower beds pop and also make sure your house number is large enough and can be seem from the street.  A potential buyer will get frustrated if he/she cannot locate your home on a street because there is no number on it.  We are in a buyer’s market so please make sure the outside of your home looks neat, no debris and untidy yards.

These are the three items needed to attract a potential buyer into your home – the right price, the right online pictures, and great external curb appeal.  Of course, there are other items that influence whether your home will sell or not – like location – but we can change the above three items with some simple effort.

Once the potential buyer has entered your home please make sure your home is clean and has been maintained appropriately. Also, add some color in the form of accent pillows in your living rooms and bedrooms.  This is another very inexpensive fix to make your home look great. Also, do not overlook any simple home maintenance repairs. A leaky faucet can be fixed with a 50 cents washer and should not be overlooked if you are planning to sell your home.  Please paint stained walls, shampoo stained carpets, and clean everything twice.  You really do not want to scare off a potential buyer with a quick fix that you could do on your own in an hour or less.

If you are planning on selling your home, it is probably the largest investment you have and you need to market it as such. Spending a $1,000 – $2,000 to prepare your home for sale will help you receive top dollar for your home and could also speed up the sale of your home.

-Kate

For more information, please contact Kate at 845-538-3623 or visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

Rockland County Home Staging Services

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign also serves the Rockland County area and hopes to help as many homes as possible sell quickly and attract the largest potential home buyer audience.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more on the MLS receive the most traffic, so before you have your MLS pictures takes contact Kate so she can bring her accessories to your home to stage all your rooms to ensure each room will show well on the Internet MLS.

In today’s technology driven market, the importance of the Internet cannot be overlooked.  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign offer a Full Digital Styling Package which includes accessories, room staging, digital picture taking and adjusting, and loading all your home’s pictures into a virtual show to ensure the largest pontential home buyer audience will be attracted.

There are three things that sell homes in today’s market:

1.  Your online pictures.  I have to agree with this, since over 85% of buyers are looking on the Internet first before visiting a home.  If your online home picture are not impressive, most potential buyers will not physically go to see your home.  In the age of the Internet, online marketing is very important.  Once you have perfected your online pictures, make sure buyers can locate your listing everywhere.  There are even sites that allow you to list your home for free such as Zillow.  Homes that have 20 pictures or more receive the most traffic on the Internet, so make sure your home has as many pcitures as possible online.

2.  Your home’s price.  If you are priced too high in your neighborhood, your home is not going to sell and it definitely will not sell quickly.  Your online marketing and your home’s price are the 2 most important things to get right when selling your home. This is something a qualified realtor and home stager can help you with.  To find a realtor in your area, you can go to realtor.com and take a look at the number of listings this realtor currently has.  This will help a home seller determine the realtor’s experience in your neighborhood. To find a home stager in your area, you can go to http://www.homestagingresource.com and select the Directory on the right hand side.  You can also try http://www.ashsr.comwhich is the American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners or http://www.realestatestagingassociation.com/which is the Real Estate Staging Assocation.  A staged home sells for 6-10% more money than a home that is not staged, in other words, your home could sell for $20,000 or more from a simple home staging!  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is a member in good standing of all three of the above staging associations.

3.  External Curb Appeal.  In this market, you need to have great curb appeal outside and draw potential buyers inside your home.  Please invest in some black or red mulch to make your flower beds pop and also make sure your house number is large enough and can be seem from the street.  A potential buyer will get frustrated if he/she cannot locate your home on a street because there is no number on it.  We are in a buyer’s market so please make sure the outside of your home looks neat, no debris and untidy yards.

These are the three items needed to attract a potential buyer into your home – the right price, the right online pictures, and great external curb appeal.  Of course, there are other items that influence whether your home will sell or not – like location – but we can change the above three items with some simple effort.

Once the potential buyer has entered your home please make sure your home is clean and has been maintained appropriately. Also, add some color in the form of accent pillows in your living rooms and bedrooms.  This is another very inexpensive fix to make your home look great. Also, do not overlook any simple home maintenance repairs. A leaky faucet can be fixed with a 50 cents washer and should not be overlooked if you are planning to sell your home.  Please paint stained walls, shampoo stained carpets, and clean everything twice.  You really do not want to scare off a potential buyer with a quick fix that you could do on your own in an hour or less.

If you are planning on selling your home, it is probably the largest investment you have and you need to market it as such. Spending a $1,000 – $2,000 to prepare your home for sale will help you receive top dollar for your home and could also speed up the sale of your home.

-Kate

For more information, please contact Kate at 845-538-3623 or visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

 

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign Adds Another Service ~ Semi-Custom Window Coverings

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now a discount semi-custom window coverings reseller. Kate will come to your home and perform a quick design evaluation to help ensure you are happy with your window covering selection.  This window covering consultation and quick design consultation is FREE. We are now able to sell all these window treatments to our clients:

  • wood blinds
  • faux wood blinds
  • mini blinds
  • window shades
  • cellular shades
  • roman shades (my personal favorite)
  • bamboo shades ans woven wood blinds
  • roller shades – can be ordered in 100% premium silk, linen, cotton, and many fabric patterns
  • sheer shades
  • pleated shades
  • rod mounted valances – there are over 100 fabrics to choose from
  • board mounted valances
  • cornices – there is a minimum of 24″ for the semi-custom cornices

roman shades This is a roman shade example in a custom fabric.

The selection of fabrics to choose from are absolutely amazing.  Contact Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign to setup a Window Coverings Consultation. We will bring all the samples to your home and measure your windows for you.  Let us take the guess work out of your windows decision. Your windows are such an indispensable part of your home decor and now Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign will offer our clients a large selection of blinds, shades, valances, roman shades, sheers, drapes, and cornices. All window covering pricing will be 20% less expensive (or more) than retail store pricing.  Since I am receiving the dealer pricing on the window coverings, I am able to pass this great savings onto my clients. All our window covering come with a manufacturer warranty and are made in the United States of America. I look forward to being able to transform all your homes now with the addition of windows.

Some windows looks great with two window covering on the same window, for example a valance and a faux wood blind could really set off your window.  Let me help you select the valance fabric that coordinates and brings your room together. Cornices are a great idea for French doors as there is no free flowing fabric to get caught in a moving door.

Please take a look at my website for more information, select the Window Coverings tab for some more information.  If you are interested in something and it is not listed above, please contact me and I will contact my wholesale dealer to see if we are to obtain what you are looking for.  If you are one of my staging or redesing clients, you will get an additional discount on the measuring fee.

woven wood blinds Here is an example of a woven wood blind we carry, our tropical bamboo blinds offer more of a wood grain look and really sets off a room.

Some of our windows coverings start at $50, for a semi-custom product these are incredible prices!

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For more information, please contact Kate at 845-538-3623 or visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

A Good Internet MLS Presence Will Help Sell Your Home!

 

Homes for sale that have 20 or more pictures on the Internet get the most traffic from potential buyers. Virtual shows are also very attractive to potential buyers. The Internet is how we attract the buyers into your home in today’s technology driven market. 

It is extremely important the you prepare your home before you take your MLS pictures that will get posted on the Internet for everyone to see.  The home with the best Internet pictures will most likely get the most buyer traffic to its’ front door.

Here is a quick list of what you should do:

1.   Clean each room. Get rid of any clutter and make sure all the counters sparkle and look fanstastic.

2.   Bathroom.  Please close the toilet lids and put in fresh towels.  Put your personal items and toothbrushes away please. Absolutely no medications on the sink.

3.   Outside your home.  Pick up all your yard debris and remove the cars from your driveway, this will make the picture look even better.

4.    Bring in some fresh flowers for your tables.  I always love fresh flowers, besides the smell they also look great in pictures.

5.   Garbage cans.  Please remove them from the room prior to taking your picture, a potential buyer does not want to see your over-flowing kitchen garbage can or your bathroom garbage.

6.   Lighting.  Take pictures with your lights turned on and off and with your blinds opened and closed.  This way you can post the pictures that look the best online.

 

Preparing your home before you take your MLS pictures is very important since over 85% of potential home buyers are starting their home searches on the Internet.  We cannot ignore the importance of technology when marketing your homes today!

Also, do not forget to crop those digital pictures after you take them.  If the picture is very dark, please use the photo light adjustment feature and lighten those photos up. You can also try the “auto-adjust” feature to see if this helps your pictures. If a potential buyer cannot see what the picture actually is, they may more on the the next online listing that has clear, bright pictures.

If you need help with this process please contact a local Realtor or home stager for help.  Remember, if a potential buyer does not like how your pictures look on the Internet chances are they will not come to your house to look at it. 

Remember, if you are planning on selling your home also make sure you leave your light on during the evening hours and that your house number is clearly marked.  A potential buyer may try to drive buy your home after work to take a look at your external curb appeal!  This is why it is important to keep those yards clean and neat.

Which bedroom do you think looks better?

Bedroom Before Staging.
Bedroom Before Staging.

                                                                                        

Bedroom After Staging, Painting, & Cleaning.
Bedroom After Staging, Painting, & Cleaning.

 

 What a difference some simple preparation can make!  Which room do you think a potential buyer will want to visit?

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck with your Home Sale.

-Kate

 

Contact Kate today to see how a home staging consultation can help sell your home, for more information please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623.

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors.  Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Styling Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home.  The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home. 

 

 

Digital Styling Services – Virtual Tours to Sell Your Home

Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is now offering digital styling services which is home staging extreme.  After we stage your rooms, we take high definition digital pictures, then we post these digital pictures into virtual tours and flyers to help you sell your home.  These services are great for homeowners who are trying to sell their home on their own using the “For Sale By Owner” route.  For a limited time, Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign is offering this service FREE to all their staging clients to help them sell their homes more quickly. 

Home staging is tax deductible and has a 343% return on your investment when compared with other home improvement projects.  If you are currently trying to sell your home, it is time to consult with the professional staging experts at Kate’s Home Staging and Redesign.  Our Home Staging Consultations start at $199 and include a free virtual tour.

Contact us at 845-538-3623 or visit our website to learn more www.kateshomestaging.com.

Does Home Staging Really Work?

This is a question most Realtors and home sellers constantly ask themselves. In this market, I guess we cannot blame them for wanting to save there money.  A professional home stager is trained to look at your home objectively, address traffic flow issues, address maintenance issues, ensure there are no odor issues, make sure there is enough natural or artificial light in each room, depersonalize the entire home, create emotional connection points for potential buyers, and bring the buyer’s attention to focal points and your home’s architectural details.  Home stagers are also trained to create great curb appeal and which home improvements will give a home seller the best return on your investment.  After all, no one wants to spend thousands on a home you are planning on leaving.

According to a 2007 Home Gain Survey of 0ver 2000 Realtors, Home Staging has a 343% return on investment.  The typical cost for a half day of hands-on staging in the New York area is $45o dollars.  This includes moving furniture around, eliminating clutter, light cleaning, and addressing lighting and design issues.  A staged home typically sells for up to 10% more than an unstaged home and in less time. 

By creating emotional connection points, a home stager will help a potential buyer to connect to your home and picture themselves living in it.  This is a ‘Feel Home” philosophy that is so important in the selling process.  Just take a look at before and after pictures and you will see the difference.  In order to get a home sold today, your rooms need to be professionally staged and them your stager will take digital pictures for you.  These pictures need to be placed online because over 85% of home buyers are starting their search for a new home by using the Internet.  Your online photos must be clear, well lite, and staged.  The next thing a potential buyer may do is drive by your home, so please make sure you have great external curb appeal — clean lawn (no toys, debris on lawn), house number with light on it, trees trimmed. 

A professional home stager should be able to stage your home and be able to provide you with great digital pictures to be given to your realtor to be posted online.  This is a big part of your home selling process. Home stagers can also provide you with a virtual show of your home to be posted online as well.