The way we live in a home and the way we sell a house are two very different things!

When you list your Edmonton home with Paul Jamieson, we can put you in touch with an Accredited Staging® Professional, who understands what buyers look for when viewing a property. To achieve top dollar and a quick sale, it’s important that your home shows exceptionally to potential buyers.

If a Home Stagger is Over the top, I can personally look over your home with a critical eye & give you the basics.

What is Home Staging?

In the past, it was completely up to the homeowner to prepare their house for showing to potential buyers. This is no longer the case. An Accredited Staging® Professional is skilled in the art of preparing a home for resale. They can eliminate clutter, arrange furniture, bring in props, paint feature walls, assist in enhancing curb-appeal and much more.

The first impression is a key factor in selling your home in Edmonton or anywhere. A potential buyer can make up their mind within ten seconds of stepping in the front door. In fact, they are likely already forming an opinion as they pull into your driveway. That’s why it’s important that your home be presented at its best right from the start.

Staging -- for less !!

Staging a home doesn’t have to be expensive -- I’m sure nearly all of us have seen on HGTV how a designer can take an inflatable bed and some linens and make it look spectacular -- one would never know that there’s just air and plastic underneath. For example, you can get double (full-sized) air beds at Target for just over $60.

Stagers generally recommend that when staging, you should focus on the master bedroom and bath, the dining room, the family room and the entrance to your home. Staging doesn’t have to mean lots of furniture -- just enough to suggest a purpose for a room.

For staging a bathroom, all you really need are some nice towels, soaps and a decorative item or two -- in her blog post, Realtor Julianna Hind shows how easy and (cheap) it is to stage a bathroom -- but the bathroom she worked with is already beautiful, so her task may have been a little easier.

While you could purchase inexpensive furniture or rent some to furnish your vacant property, you could also try leaving a few of your own furnishings behind or borrowing some from family and friends. (How many of us have no longer used or handed-down furnishings stored in our basements?)

If you want to get started Now, here is a Guide that is for Sale

Detailed guide takes you room by room: How to prepare your house for showing PLUS make a profitable sale.  Order your copy right now for only $37 CAD and begin preparing your house for a quick and profitable sale.

P.S. Don’t let your house sit on the market and DON’T even think about dropping your price, when you can quickly and inexpensively learn to stage your house and have viewers eager to put down a deposit. (You can be learning these methods minutes from now, so don’t wait.

Even if it’s 2:00 am.  (Within minutes you will receive download instuctions for your copy in pdf format.) 

Now there is also VIRTUAL STAGING, an Idea worth looking into if the home is vacant. Builders have been using this technology for several years as a way to cut the cost of building model homes and design centers. It’s only been in the last couple of years, however, that virtual staging has expanded into the realm of home staging, and it’s flown completely under the radar until now. If there’s a danger in virtual staging, it’s that some viewers might not understand that what they’re looking at isn’t real, and feel like they’ve been deceived. I think the risk of this is highest if the virtual staging included changing the wall colors or adding light fixtures or window treatments, which many times are included in a house. A simple disclaimer on the listing would take care of that, though.

-- Staged4More Home Staging & Redesigns, www.staged4more.com,

(650) 293-7458

-- Virtual Enriching Homes, www.virtualenrichinghomes.com,   (888) 543-4970
-- Virtually Staging Properties, www.virtuallystagingproperties.com,   (404) 949-9797

-- Virtual Staging Solutions, www.virtualstagingsolutions.com,   (888) 201-9042

Virtual Staging - It Works !!