Staging Secrets: How to Dress Your House for Sale Success
13 tips to make a home into buyer-bait
By Leah Hennen | Published: 11/01/2007
Ever walk into an open house or a model home and notice how... well, inhumanly perfect it looks? If so, chances are the property is "staged."
In real estate parlance, that means the place has been dressed with paint, furniture arrangements, art and accessories carefully chosen to highlight the home's strengths, downplay its weaknesses, and appeal to the greatest number of prospective buyers.
Whether you're designing to sell or designing to dwell, here's how the home-staging pros get that "I have to have it!" look. These 13 tips and tricks can make your own humble abode look like a million bucks.
