Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Occupied Homes
In my first post in the series, Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Picture, I shared the challenges, along with the home staging solutions our company implemented for living rooms with awkward layouts.
While the layout of a room can in fact have its' fair share of challenges for sellers and buyers, the occupied home owner faces a host of unique challenges tied to selling their home.
Here's a list of some of those struggles as they begin preparing their home for the market:
- Most don't know where to begin.
- The process seems overwhelming
- They've grown so accustom to their things and the way they currently have the room laid out that they can't envision it any other way
As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I understand just how frustrating the process can be for sellers. Fortunately, we offer a host of home staging solutions that can and do overcome the challenges.
Here's a small sample of some of the occupied homes we've staged with the unique challenge and the home staging solution we implemented:
The Challenge: Given how important a master bedroom is when selling, you want buyers to emotionally connect with this room. In the case of this room, there's nothing too engaging that would make this room memorable to the potential buyer.
The Home Staging Solution: We set out to make this bedroom a room they would remember. In the design plan, we knew we needed to implement a plan that would tie everything together. We began with the bedding and kept with the use of black and white accents to coincide with the black and white marble in the fireplace.
The Challenge: This sitting room resides in the master bedroom and as you can see, managed to become a "collection of stuff."
The Home Staging Solution: As you can see from the following after picture, we brought the area back to its' original purpose. Now buyers can actually envision enjoying their first cup of coffee, or better yet, snuggling up next to a roaring fire reading a book.
The Challenge: This keeping room is located off one of the key rooms of the home, the kitchen. As a result, it too becomes an important room when selling. The challenge with this room is that it lacks a cohesive look. The chairs, with one being brown and the other beige, actually interrupts the visual flow of the room.
The Home Staging Solution: The second beige chair, which was found in another room within the home, adds an element of design to the room. The use of the red accents picks up the red from the round carpet help tie it all together. The result - a cohesive look and feel.
The Challenge: Note: This room is directly on the left as you enter the front door. As you can see, the homeowner has taken this formal living room and used it as an arts and crafts room for their children; which is fine when your home is not on the market. However, when selling, given the location of this room and the importance of a great first-impression, this room becomes critically important.
The Home Staging Solution: I'm often asked if this is truly the same room given just how big the transformation was. I can assure you that it is. With the room converted back to its' original purpose, we now appeal to a broad base of perspective buyers and not just those with kids.
The Challenge: The room is small to begin with and is being consumed by the foos ball table. In addition, from a visual perspective, the feature of the room, the fireplace, is partially blocked.
The Home Staging Solution: Using just the right amount of pieces and furniture scaled to the size of the room, buyers can now a) see the feature and b) are provided with a visually appealing room.
The Challenge: While the layout is right, the pieces are wrong. As you can see, the room below lacks in personality.
The Home Staging Solution: Using the same general layout, but different pieces (which, by the way, were in the home), we brought a cohesive look and feel to the room.
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Georgia Interior Solutions (GIS), LLC is Atlanta Georgia's Premier Home Staging Provider. Owner and Real Estate Staging Expert, Kathy Nielsen has appeared on the pages of Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Home Improvement; Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show Sleep On It.
With their extensive home staging portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the experience and knowledge on what it takes to make your home and/or listing appeal to the prospective buyers. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392
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About the Author: Kathy Nielsen, a RESA 2010 Home Stager of the Year Finalists is a nationally recognized leader within the home staging industry, offers affordable home staging solutions to help sell your home more quickly. Kathy can be reached via email at info@homestagingatlanta.com or by phone at 678 522 8392. Their Atlanta Home Staging services offer a variety of options to accommodate all budgets. To view examples of their before and after pictures, visit their portfolio at Home Staging Atlanta Gallery.
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