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Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? Home Staging For Dummies delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost– and time–effective way.
Featuring eight full–color pages of instructive before–and–after photos, this completely practical guide demonstrates how and why to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, and pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house. You’ll get a handle on what buyers want and how to show it to them, find plenty of do–it–yourself tasks that add real value to your home, and get tips on producing photos of your home that will have buyers craving to see more! Discover how to:
- See your home as prospective buyers will see it
- Know what needs doing and what doesn’t
- Master the three–step home staging process
- Add real value to your home without breaking the bank
- Decide whether to DIY or call in the pros
- Create curb appeal
- Make a great first impression with a beautiful entryway
- Spruce up your kitchen, bathroom, living, and dining rooms
- Turn your bedrooms into a buyer’s dream
- Whip your mechanicals into top shape
- Avoid staging nightmares
Get top dollar for your home — all you need is a little help from Home Staging For Dummies!
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8 full–color pages of before–and–after photos
Make your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money!
Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? This no–nonsense, practical guide shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost– and time–effective way. You′ll see how — and why — to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house, and much more to get top dollar!
Discover how to:
Make the improvements that buyers want
Clear out the clutter
Show off your home′s best features
Woo buyers with curb appeal
Depersonalize and neutralize each room
Get rooms photo ready
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book is a little bit american, and slightly old-fashioned, but the basic ideas are extremely helpful. i bought this to get ideas when selling my house. what it does do is advise you on how to stage your home in order to sell it, not how to decorate it. the book makes the distinction between how to furnish, decorate & lay out your home in order to appeal to buyers, not necessarily how YOU would like it. a bit like the House Doctor programmes. general good advice on clutter, colours,etc. each chapter covers a different room or part of the home, including the outside appearance ('curb appeal') and garden. for someone like me who has no natural flair when it comes to decorating a house, this book is a helping hand which takes you through room by room pointing out the obvious and not-so-obvious in order to create a good first impression.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
An excellent reference to staging a home for sale. This is an american book written for the american real estate market but nevertheless I found it extremely useful with some great hints and tips. I would highly recommend this book.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good Tips
30 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
As an interior designer and stager, I read all the books on staging and design, always looking for a new nugget or two of good information.
If you need to learn the basics to staging your home, Home Staging for Dummies will help. The book will walk you through the basics of staging--cleaning, removing clutter, organizing and showing off your home's good features tot he fullest advantage. That said, the book is slanted to convince you to pay for the services of a stager.
This book can also help you determine if you want to stage your home yourself or hire a pro. Make no mistake--most of us have tons of clutter and getting a home ready for sale is no small chore.
In a buyer's market, learning how to make your home stand above the competition is crucial to sell it--and for a good price.
While I recommend Home Staging for Dummies, there is nothing really new here and DIY isn't really encouraged. I would recommend SELL YOUR HOME FAST IN A BUYER'S MARKET along with this book for DIY's and for some cutting edge approaches to selling your home--like adding green features and other great tips.
If you need to learn the basics to staging your home, Home Staging for Dummies will help. The book will walk you through the basics of staging--cleaning, removing clutter, organizing and showing off your home's good features tot he fullest advantage. That said, the book is slanted to convince you to pay for the services of a stager.
This book can also help you determine if you want to stage your home yourself or hire a pro. Make no mistake--most of us have tons of clutter and getting a home ready for sale is no small chore.
In a buyer's market, learning how to make your home stand above the competition is crucial to sell it--and for a good price.
While I recommend Home Staging for Dummies, there is nothing really new here and DIY isn't really encouraged. I would recommend SELL YOUR HOME FAST IN A BUYER'S MARKET along with this book for DIY's and for some cutting edge approaches to selling your home--like adding green features and other great tips.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
OK, but annoying. Try Complete Idiot's Guide . . . instead
8 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
OK, I got some good ideas from this book, which I bought because we're getting ready to put our house on the market. There are several things I hadn't thought of, even given the fact that I'm an HGTV junkie.
However, the book is really aimed at people who are going to HIRE a professional stager, which isn't really what the title implies (yes, I know, . . . For Dummies is a huge series of books). There is way too much self-promotion, promotion of whatever the professional organization is, promotion of the authors' friends or associates, selection of a professional, meeting with the professional, recommending products sold on their websites, and on and on and on. I got the feeling that there is a secret club, one to which I'm not welcome, unless, of course, I hired one of them.
I wish all of the before-and-after pairs of photos had been shot from the exact spot at exactly the same angle. In many of them, it was hard to see what changes were made. The photos nearly all being B & W is a problem, too, but probably not one within the authors' control. They probably could have left out the small color section in the middle of the book, since the first photo (the BLUE one) is garish enough to make you think it's a "before" example (so much for neutrals).
Because the authors are clearly out to sell their services, they seem to have a sort of "take no prisoners" approach. So many of their dictates seem to be those that would get done in the best of all possible worlds, but not this one. I doubt that, after rightly reducing their number by half, arranging all of the food items in my pantry with their labels facing forward would make much difference to a buyer. Actually, since we're trying desperately not to distract the buyer, I'd worry about the distraction created by them wondering just what kind of person would do such a thing, reading the labels on the boxes and cans, discussing my brand selections, wondering if I'm a good cook, etc. I'm in no way discounting the value of staging, which I totally "get," but some of these things really seem like overkill and seem almost to have been put into the book to make sellers think that, "no, I can't really do it myself; I'd better hire a professional."
I'd recommend The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell over this one.
However, the book is really aimed at people who are going to HIRE a professional stager, which isn't really what the title implies (yes, I know, . . . For Dummies is a huge series of books). There is way too much self-promotion, promotion of whatever the professional organization is, promotion of the authors' friends or associates, selection of a professional, meeting with the professional, recommending products sold on their websites, and on and on and on. I got the feeling that there is a secret club, one to which I'm not welcome, unless, of course, I hired one of them.
I wish all of the before-and-after pairs of photos had been shot from the exact spot at exactly the same angle. In many of them, it was hard to see what changes were made. The photos nearly all being B & W is a problem, too, but probably not one within the authors' control. They probably could have left out the small color section in the middle of the book, since the first photo (the BLUE one) is garish enough to make you think it's a "before" example (so much for neutrals).
Because the authors are clearly out to sell their services, they seem to have a sort of "take no prisoners" approach. So many of their dictates seem to be those that would get done in the best of all possible worlds, but not this one. I doubt that, after rightly reducing their number by half, arranging all of the food items in my pantry with their labels facing forward would make much difference to a buyer. Actually, since we're trying desperately not to distract the buyer, I'd worry about the distraction created by them wondering just what kind of person would do such a thing, reading the labels on the boxes and cans, discussing my brand selections, wondering if I'm a good cook, etc. I'm in no way discounting the value of staging, which I totally "get," but some of these things really seem like overkill and seem almost to have been put into the book to make sellers think that, "no, I can't really do it myself; I'd better hire a professional."
I'd recommend The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell over this one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Home Staging Hepl
17 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
There are so many different ways home staging is approached. This book breaks down home staging point by point, easy to follow.
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