Staging the Features
AKA
Accessory Styling
Accessory Staging
or Soft Staging
Home staging comes in many different forms. Staging happens in occupied homes or vacant homes and somewhere in between. Staging can be done by the homeowner, the Realtor or a professional home stager. The costs associated with each can range from a few hundred to thousands of dollars. What is best for one listing is not the same for all. Every home, and homeowner, is unique.
UpStaging Designs
At UpStaging Designs, I primarily assist full-service Realtors and their listing clients to create a Staging Plan for each home and homeowner. The Staging Plan is tailored to their home, their potential buyer, their needs, time frame and budget. For every Staging Consultation, there is an individual Staging Plan for that client.
Vacant Homes
When a home is vacant, there are other staging options for sellers.
Homes can just be vacant and sometimes that is okay.
In today’s real estate environment, leaving a home “naked” is not always the best option. With buyers pressed for down payments, closing costs and now even commissions, it is more important than ever for a listing to shine when presented to buyers. Move-in ready is what buyers want.
One of the “in-between” options that many homeowners and Realtors choose is what I call Accessory Styling. Others call it accessory staging or soft staging, but essentially, instead of adding furniture in a vacant home, the features and fixed elements are “dressed up” with art and decor accessories. Kitchen counters, mantles, built-ins and bathrooms are most common areas to be “staged.”
Accessory Styling makes photos more interesting, distracts buyer’s eyes from less desirable features and gives the buyer a little taste of how a space might look when they move in and decorate it themselves. I would make a few stagers mad if I told you this is real staging. The purpose is different than full furniture staging and the effect on buyers is not as strong. Another option is virtual staging, offered by many professional photographers and online editing services.
Make it stand out
An otherwise very white kitchen looks a little more ready for the buyer to start cooking and entertaining in this beautiful home!
This year, I started making videos of how I do some of the Accessory Styling! Here’s one of a home in Cary NC. It sold the first weekend, over ask! Check out other reels and photos on my Instagram page. @UpStagingDesigns
If you’d like to schedule Accessory Styling services or a
Staging Consultation with UpStaging Designs, you can book online here!