Transform Your Space to Excite and Delight.
Transforming your space to appeal to potential buyers is accomplished by paying attention to the potential market and recommending that you spend money only where you need to. Real Estate research suggests that the following areas are worth considering.
1. Freshly painted walls
This is the number one thing on the hit list for prospective buyers. Buyers want to have move in ready rooms. That means neutral colours and clean walls. The easiest and most inexpensive transformation is with PAINT. Repainting some or all of your rooms will be a major transformation. The wall colour you currently live with may be your favourite decorating style, but may not be the buyer's style. Neutral colours allow the features of the room to stand out. Rooms can often seem larger with the right paint colour. Selecting one or two colours for the whole house encourages the eye to harmoniously move from one room to the next. Ensemble Staging can help you select the most appealing colours. Ask us about our Stage Safe Colours.
2. Storage Space
Buyers rank storage space in their top 3 desired features. Storage space is not just the large areas like basement, and garage storage. It is also the everyday storage in bedroom closets, kitchen and bathroom cupboards and linen closets. Let us help you transform those spaces. When doors and cupboards are opened and they see you have space you are not using, you want the buyer to say, Wow there is so much storage space here. Cluttered and disorganized clothes closets are not appealing. Likewise, vanities and linen closets need to be organized and free of overcrowding. Let us help you transform your storage space.
3. Updated Flooring
Buyers have been watching a lot of TV. The DIY, Home Improvement, and Re-modeling programs all condition buyers to look for new, on trend floors. There are many choices available today that include: hardwood (traditional and engineered), laminate and vinyl. In addition to hard surface floors, the carpet manufacturers are constantly advancing their product. Carpet choices abound in the four major fiber categories, polypropylene; polyester; nylon and wool. Not all homes need help with updating their floors. However, if your flooring detracts from creating a lasting first impression, then Ensemble Staging can recommend a suitable solution.
4. Showcase your property.
The proper placement of furniture, art, and lighting can truly transform your home. Ensemble Staging will recommend the best arrangements to showcase the selling features of the property. Rooms will be functionally correct, will highlight focal points, and will create the right impression to excite the buyer about offering you top dollar. In occupied properties, we believe in saving you money by using appropriate furnishings belonging to the seller. Placement is the key. Often the homeowners possessions are perfectly fine for showcasing. We offer rental accessories for vignette styling as well as items that generally fall into the categories of pictures, plants and pillows.
5. Target the Market
We will help you market your property to the potential target market. We want your home to be competitive and we believe in only spending money where you need to. Our recommendations will be investments that will actually make you money! A clean, organized property will go a long way in attracting potential buyers. We will pay attention to the things that will make a difference. Lighting, art and styling the rooms to showcase the best features will help to make an emotional connection. We won’t overlook the little details either. Fresh towels, colourful accessories, pillows, throws, and greenery will be key to styling. Harmonizing your space, is what we do to help you leverage your equity.
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Testimonials
“Marsha is a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, diplomatic and fun person to work with. A home is a private, personal space which she treats with great respect and diplomacy. She made the process an adventure in change rather than a time of sadness and endings. For me this was most important.
In our first meeting together Marsha explained all the steps in the staging process before she began to tour our home. Her questions during the initial house tour were well thought out and put my husband and me at ease with the process. As our single most valuable investment, it was important that the person transforming it for sale would see its best features and highlight them.
After that initial interview, a plan was formulated for the changes that would bring our house into the current real estate market. Having a ‘plan’ set a course for change that guided us in the process. A timeline was drawn: action steps were accomplished.
Once the plan is set, Marsha will also guide you through the maze of changes that might be needed. In our case there were paint colours to be chosen, flooring choices to be decided upon and new appliances to be selected. Her contacts and suggestions in each of these areas narrowed the search categories and helped move the process along more easily and efficiently.”
