Real Estate Staging Los Angeles, Does Your Listing Feel Like a Cave? Learn The importance of Good Lighting

Hi,

This is Darlene Parris with UPSTAGED!  a Professional Home Staging and Interior Redesign Service in Los Angeles.  Thank you for joining me here again today.  I just wanted to give you a little quick tip here today on something that people need to make sure they're doing in all of their showings.  And that is lighting.

It's so important to make sure that your potential buyers, as they're coming into your home and viewing your home, have enough and ample lighting throughout so that they're able to take a really good look at your home.  So as they are walking through, you want to make sure that you have every light turned on.  And even in the bathroom, it's going to be important because those are darker spaces.

Also, make sure that all the curtains are drawn wide open to allow as much light in as possible.  No one wants to feel like they are living in a cave or that they could potentially be living in a cave so light your home to dollars and cents for you on the market.  Make sure that you're doing this for each and every showing.

I'm Darlene Parris.  Thanks for joining me again here today.  I'll see you next time.  Bye-bye.

Darlene Parris

Interior Redesigner, Organizer, Home Stager

UPSTAGED! by Darlene Parris

www.GetUpStaged.com

888-224-0323

Real Estate Staging, Will Your Home Make Potential Buyers Stop The Car or Just Keep On Going? Quick Curb Appeal Tips That Will Make Everyone Want to See More

Hi, this is Darlene Parris with UPSTAGED!. Thanks for joining me here today.

Today we're going to talk with you a little bit about curb appeal and the importance it plays in preparing and staging your house for sale.  Curb appeal is vitally essential to the overall look of your home.  Because after all, 'Hello' or 'Goodbye' starts at the curb.  So let's talk about the things that need to happen when you are preparing the exterior of your home for sale.

First if you have either stucco or siding to your home, you can certainly take the out time to power wash that home.  Get off all that excess dirt and grime that's been there and built up for years. If you have loose paint on the home or loose stucco, you definitely want to address those issues by patching and repairing whatever needs to be patched or repaired.

Don't forget to clean out your gutters.  It's really important that they're not full of leaves especially at certain times of the year.  Fall time you're going to get lots of leaves if you have big trees on your property or surrounding your property.  Clear out those gutters.

Clean off your walkway.  Make sure that there's a very clear path to your front door.  And while we're talking about front doors, make sure that your front door sparkles.  If you need to add new hardware to your door or even paint your door, that would be a wonderful thing, because from the street, people need to be able to see that entry and know that it's beautiful and ready to receive people.

Don't forget that if you have exterior lighting, that it should shine and be pristine.  Pay attention to your door knobs, your door bell, your mailbox.  If those things need to be cleaned up... CLEAN THEM UP so that they sparkle and shine.

And don't forget to trim excess foliage and shrubbery or even overgrown trees.  It's going to be important to frame your house in the best possible light that's available for your home when you're trying to sell.

And if you have animals, even outdoor animals, make sure that you have cleaned up properly behind your animals and that they are contained in a particular space during your showings and that of course the property is free of animal waste and things of that nature.

Feel free to put out any decorative items, without going overboard though, outside.  For example, if it's Christmas and you wanted to put out a few poinsettias on the steps, that is certainly acceptable and perfect of the occasion and the season.  So you can decorate still, while not going overboard, and making sure your curb appeal is clean, concise and ready to rock and roll.  When buyers show up, they want to stop the car as opposed to continuing down the street.

Thank you so much for joining me here today.  I'm Darlene Parris with UPSTAGED!. See you next time.

Darlene Parris

Interior Redesigner, Organizer, Home Stager

UPSTAGED! by Darlene Parris

www.GetUpStaged.com

888-224-0323

Home Staging Tip #5, Could Your Ceiling Fan Kill Your Deal When Trying to Sell Your Home?

Hey there,

It's Darlene Parris with UPSTAGED!, a professional Home Staging Company right here in Los Angeles. Today we're going to finish our 5 part series of ways to avoid deal killing criticisms when trying to sell your home.

Today's tip, although it may seem very commonsensical, is not widely followed, so pay close attention. Today's tip is all about cleaning.  And again, although it sounds like someone would do this all the time no matter what, it does not happen a frequently as it needs to.

So I'm going to invite you to start by looking up.  Up because you want to look at all the little corners at the ceiling line in your home and make sure you're taking down all the spider webs and dust bunnies that exist there. While you're looking up, make sure you take a look at your light fixtures and clean those. They need to sparkle and shine as well as your ceiling fans.  Those are notorious to harbor lots of dirt and gook as they stay up for years and years and years and some people never touch them at all.

You want to then look downwards onto your walls.  Repair and paint any chipped or peeling paint on the walls but of course if your paint is in good shape, you can just go ahead and wash your walls.  Not a problem.

As you continue to look further down, take a look at the floor boards and baseboards. Scrub those things! They tend to collect lots of dirt and dust over time.  And if you can't get them clean, go ahead and paint them.  A fresh coat of paint will make anything feel brand new.

And then of course all the way down are your floors.  Your floors need to sparkle.  If there's carpeting, they need to be cleaned.  If the carpet is sagging, it needs to be re-stretched or replaced if your budget can handle that.  If not, stretch it out, clean it up, make it fresh and ready to rock and roll.

This is no ordinary cleaning.  This is not your weekly regimen cleaning.  This is not even your mother-in-law coming over, white clove type cleaning where you get the kids to pitch in. This is the type of cleaning that if you can't do it yourself, hire a cleaning crew to come in and do the cleaning for you.  Your cleaning crew, much like your Stager or your Real Estate Agent, are going to have fresher eyes than you.  That's because you live in the home yourself.  You see it all the time and every day.  You don't look into all those little crevices that the rest of us do.  So hire a cleaning crew to go through and fine tooth everything so that your home is pristine and buyers will appreciate that.

So again, this is Darlene with UPSTAGED!, home staging agency right here in Los Angeles.  This concludes our 5 part series of Five Ways to Avoid Deal Killing Criticisms When Trying to Sell Your Home.  Thank you so much for joining us.  We'll catch you next time.

Darlene Parris

Interior Redesigner, Organizer, Home Stager

UPSTAGED! by Darlene Parris

www.GetUpStaged.com

888-224-0323