About a month ago I showed a house in River Forest to a couple. The house was nicely rehabbed, but the home staging detracted from rather than enhancing the look of the home.
The furniture and accessories used to stage the home weren’t of the caliber one would expect for a home priced at just under $600K. They looked like they belonged in an apartment for a recent college graduate.
Even more distracting were numerous signs such as the one shown left reminding the buyers that the home was staged. One of the objectives of staging a home is to help buyers visualize it as their home. It’s hard to see a place as your home, if it looks more like a retail display.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but my buyers ended up buying a vacant house that had no staging.
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In this case it seems like it would be better to have no staging than some that is not socially correct.
Made worse by the bad grammar!
Home staging runs the gamut, there is the rented furniture (which if shabby is better left out) then there is the sprucing up. The home stager I hire provides the owner with a list. The home seller then decides how much they want to complete:
do they want to paint? Etc.
Many times, they simply choose to spruce up (buy fresh towels, etc.) & declutter.