Home staging has currently gained importance in India though it has been popular in the US and Europe from long. It is a modern method of decorating a property in most impressive ways to help buyers imagine themselves moving in and living there.
As per academic research conducted, most people decide on a property within 7-10 seconds of viewing it. So how a property interests the customer depends on what you show them within that thin frame of time. So, staging plays an important role in influencing how a buyer views a property.
Apart from physical staging, virtual staging is also gaining considerable popularity. It is another technological advancement in property staging techniques. Virtual staging is essentially a creative process of carefully adding digital furniture and decor into high-resolution photos of empty rooms. And with the coronavirus outbreak, people are starting to lean towards it more than ever before.
Be it the physical or virtual, staging can help improve the visual appeal of your home or any property by instantly transforming it into a warm and welcoming experience that anybody would desire.
A property stylist can be taken on board who can do efficient space planning to make your home not only beautiful but functional and appealing for buyers. The better your house looks to a potential buyer, the more the appealing your house will be, the more the chances of your sale happening quicker.
Here are a few quick rules for staging correctly-
Focus on the main areas of the property
The rooms that typically hold the most important for potential buyers are the living room, master bedroom, and kitchen. Other architecture or interior elements that create a good ambience as well as special features of the property must be shown impressively. So, one doesn’t need to stage and spend much money in every room.
Not going overboard with personal style
Avoid giving a personal touch to space. Always remember, many different groups of people will be viewing the property. To appeal to as many of these groups as possible its best to give them a neutral appeal with simple, contemporary accents so their imaginations can run wild.
Positively enhancing the views of the property
Beautiful views and architectural elements are the biggest draws for potential buyers. If a window shows a nice view of the backyard lawn or anything else, then you should be making an effort to draw a buyer’s eye to the window.
Outside matters too
The first impression is the last and in this case, it starts from the exterior of the property. The outside is the very first impression that buyers will have of your property. Make sure your exterior leaves a lasting impression by consistently maintaining the lawn and landscaping, and giving the property a fresh coat of paint.
One of the major benefits of typically having the home staging is you can get a professional photo shoot done for your property. Having beautiful photos of your property is taken after it has been staged by a stylist can instantly attract a whole slew of buyers which you may have never reached with photos of an empty or lived-in home.
The fundamental idea is to make your home more appealing to many potential buyers which in effect can drive up the price of your property and make it sell faster.
This article is Authored by: Rimpy Pillania, Architect and Interior Designer
About Rimpy Pillania
Rimpy Pillania a young entrepreneur at heart and a passionate Interior designer by profession, she has always believed in excelling at any project undertaken, by sheer hard work and dedication. As an artist with acute attention to detailing, Rimpy has always recognized the power of originality and ideas amalgamated into one, which eventually reflected into her work that she later executed.
After graduating in Architecture from DCRUST Murthal, Rimpy went on to accomplish several projects and assignments on her own in reputed architectural design firms like Subhash & Architects, Design Plus Architects, AEON Design and later ventured out into her own entrepreneurial journey by setting up AVANT GARDE Studio. Among one of her many exceptional talents lies her expertise in applying sustainability in architecture for which she also accomplished focussed knowledge by training herself through a specialized course in Green Buildings and Sustainability Studies from Austria’s one of the leading institutions, TU Wein.
With more than 17 years of solid professional exposure, Rimpy consults for various firms and executes a wide number of projects in her capacity. By acquiring a professional diploma in Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, from VU Amsterdam, she has also streamlined herself into venturing out of the regular professional knowledge sphere into an all-encompassing domain of entrepreneurship and business as well.
