The Complete Idiots Guide to Staging your Home to Sell

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Home staging transforms rooms from that everyday lived-in look to ready-to-be sold for top dollar. This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagersfrom de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodelingthat will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price.

--Decorating tips to make a house appeal to the widest range of buyers
--Cost-effective techniques to highlight the homes selling points, whether its the floor plan, the high ceilings, or a newly renovated bathroom
--Suggestions on how to downplay or eliminate features that might be considered negatives such as smaller rooms, minimal storage space, or ghastly wall colors

Product Reviews

(4 stars) - Great advice
I got a lot out of this book. It has few photos but the photos there show tasteful, modern style. It would be nice if the photos were in color. At least once, they refered to the way adding color made a difference but you cant' tell that by looking at a black and white photo.

(5 stars) - Great book!
I finished reading this book shortly after receiving it. It has some wonderful ideas! They may sound like common sense but many of us do not think of these things! If you are interested in selling your house then this is the book for you. Although I am slow going in taking the steps needed, I have a game plan in place thanks to this book.

(4 stars) - Staging Your Home to Sell
Good basic book, as a Realtor in a tough market every tool and benefit you can offer to a client makes you more valuable. I recently added an AHS designation (Accredited Home-Staging Specialists) that is a direct result of reading this and another book on staging. Realtors, if your office doesn't offer some type of basic staging services or has access to a company that does you should learn it.

(3 stars) - Same old basics
This bookk covers the same old ground of clean up/clear out/ keep it neutral. Other reviewers have said that it gave them ideas for decorating, but all I got out of it was not to use wall paper or decorative painting (faux finishes). Otherwise, it's basic: carry out the trash, send the pets to camp, clean out odors, leave closets half-empty, and so forth. Nothing new, and certainly nothing about decorating to sell.

(5 stars) - Quick Hit Guide That Produced Results
My parents needed some help getting their home ready to sell, this did the trick. It is easy to digest quick information, that helped them organize and stage their home for sale.

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