TORONTO'S TOP RATED HOME STAGING

When looking for a house or an apartment, you probably pay the most attention to aesthetics, which cover more of what the eye can see. Of course, you will read the descriptions and weigh whether the purchase price is affordable for you. But in most cases, the first visual impression determines whether you want to see more of the property or not. This is the same case with potential buyers. They are attentive to details and would love to see the beauty of what they are investing in. Buyers don't want to see bare rooms that are unappealing to live in. Home staging allows you to adorn your property with modern furniture, which makes it easier for potential buyers to appreciate.

The home stager works differently depending on whether the property is occupied. With inhabited houses or apartments, it suffices to give the owners a few tips. Most of the time, the objects are too crowded and overwhelm the owners. After a few simple steps, the house or apartment looks visually appealing.

The focus of home staging is always depersonalization, i.e., clearing out the pieces of furniture that do not belong in the place where they are currently located. A neutral spatial structure is a basis for a successful sale. A neutrally decorated room allows interested parties to mentally set up their new home right away.

You can compare home staging with subtle make-up. The home stager sets highlights, arranges individual pieces of furniture, and focuses on certain decorative objects.

Barb Schwarz is the inventor of home staging and has worked as a real estate agent for a long time. She came up to furnish and redesign properties to promote sales. After a short time, she noticed how staged houses sold much faster. So she started her home staging business and has been successful with it ever since. Her top tips are:

• Completely clean and sanitize everything on the property.
• Clean up the chaotic corners.
• Paint the walls and facade in matching colors.
• Rearrange furniture and decorate neutrally.
• Repair objects and get rid of damaged areas (floor, plaster).

The enhancement of the property is the primary goal of all home staging services. That much is true. There are four major categories of advantages. The staging of the campaign comes first.

Action Staging - inhabited real estate staging

Often referred to as "inhabited real estate staging," this type includes consultation on furniture, a new design for the item with colors and creative ideas, as well as photographic documentation. As the name implies, inhabited real estate staging implies that the house is still occupied.

Traditional home staging - uninhabited real estate staging

In contrast to action staging, the classic form is uninhabited real estate staging. The property can be changed using a wider variety of concepts, and furniture can be set with the proper decorating.

Model apartments - show flats

The property developer normally provides this type of service. They set up their model apartment to bring it to the market. Home stagers can help and offer to stage the apartment for a specific target group.

The ready-made model apartment can then be shown during viewings to get people interested in the other apartments and make the whole thing make sense.

Home and business styling

Home styling are about giving private rooms or offices a modern look. Home stagers act as furnishing consultants according to the personal ideas of the client. The home stager can either visually enhance the space or completely refurbish it.

By the way, home staging increases the overall feel-good atmosphere but is not aimed at eliminating defects or ‌renovating them.

The home stager uses special software, and floor plans to create a digital model of the rooms. This is becoming more and more popular at the moment.

With virtual home staging, the home stager makes more far-reaching changes to the floor plan and the division of the room compared to the classic method. We mostly used virtual home staging in the run-up to a new building. Thanks to modern technology, the interested party can imagine exactly what the object could look like later.

In this way, potential buyers get a good impression of how they can furnish the house or apartment later and get a more detailed idea of how it feels to live in it.

First, the total selling time is reduced. This is great news for you as a seller who makes turnover and good gains in little or no time. Home staging also simplifies the purchase decision for prospective customers. The buyer recognizes the property's potential during the first viewing. It immediately triggers positive emotions in the buyer. This can reduce selling time by up to 50%.

As a seller, this gives you a much better chance of getting a higher selling price. This can even be up to 15% above the planned amount.

Another benefit of home staging is that the property sale itself is less complicated. The home stager does the work for you. The property arouses a great deal of interest and emotion in the buyer simply through the appealing pictures in the advertisement.

As already mentioned, home staging is about staging the right furniture in the best possible way.

Therefore, different light sources are placed on the property to get a perfect picture afterward.

There are several ways to make a room appealing in home staging. For example, the home stager can make a dark room brighter. Here, you use the natural light that comes from the window and can also work with light wall paint. If the room is paneled with dark wood, consider painting the area with brightly colored paint. White and yellow in combination make a room shine, for example. Colors should be used with care. Because not every color nuance meets the taste of many interested parties.

Attractive anthracite also goes with almost every piece of furniture. The primary rule is to pay attention to colors that go well together and to avoid mixing anything that looks bad.

The retro touch

Another possibility is to decorate the room with a retro flair. For example, the home stager uses bright colors and combines them with trendy modernity.

Make it a little less than too much.

If a room looks too crowded, many prospective buyers will simply walk away. It doesn't have to be. Therefore, the basic principle of "less is more" applies. An armchair that is optically rounded off with a cozy blanket or a few pillows on a bed, and the comfortable corner in the bedroom is stylishly furnished. Of course, the floor, the carpet, and the wall color must always match the respective piece of furniture.

Avoid large and bulky interiors.

Large, chunky, solid wood furniture overwhelms everyone who enters the room. They take away the potential customer's creative scope and leave him cramped. Therefore, choose discreet, rather small furniture for the right interior design.

They should allow the buyer to breathe and offer plenty of space for free development.

It is important to find a reputable provider. Therefore, get to know the stager company in advance and inspect their past jobs and records. Make sure the photos are real. Dubious providers put fake pictures or stock photos on the internet!

In addition, a professional home stager can tell you exactly when the respective property was staged and how much it cost. He can also tell you how long it took for the property to be sold. If they can't do all that or give you a bad gut feeling, then know that there might be something fishy. At GR Homes, you have the advantage of working with a competent staging company that offers professional home staging and virtual staging. We are also found throughout Toronto & GTA and can therefore offer you our services flexibly.