What is home staging and why do I need one?

Home Staging Consultation
If you want to sell your home quickly and at a top price, one of your obligations must include home staging. While home staging comes at a price and takes a reasonable effort, it is worth the investment when you consider that about 82 percent of agents have said that home staging creates a dream home for buyers and inspires buyers to go for gold.
Why settle for mediocrity when a simple effort can get you quality, right?
Of course, home staging does not happen out of the blue; putting a property up for sale is more than what meets the eye. Hence, the need for a home staging consultation.
What Is Home Staging Consultation?
Home staging consultation involves supervision and reviewing the details of the home you want to put up for sale. In essence, the home stager checks that all parts of the property (rooms, yards, parks, and views) are worth the price. If any part is found lacking, the consultant collaborates with workers across sectors to make amends.
During home staging consultation, it is a norm that the consultant hires workers who help to achieve the dream home that should be up for listing.

Should You Hire A Home Staging Expert?
Before, and sometimes, during the consultation, this question pops up. And consultants may be tempted to water down the importance of hiring home staging expert for styling the house especially if they have basic knowledge about interior decoration. However, you only get the dream home if you follow the correct procedure. And I daresay hiring a home stylist is procedural or necessary during home staging consultation.
What does hiring a home staging expert help with?
Professional Home Staging Consultation
There was a time when home staging was not generally accepted or considered necessary before buying a home. Home staging is now mainstream and considered a necessity by serious buyers. And yes, it is okay to expect the best home listing when home staging is involved. But, away from the result, there are other expectations from home staging consultations.
Are you wondering how a professional home staging consultation works?
Well, here is how:
Firstly, you need the presence and expertise of a home staging experts. As earlier stated, a home staging expert is the one that is responsible for reviewing the building and all that is related to the building before listing. And oh, it is more rewarding when you use a professional home stager. Here are the functions of a professional home stager:


- A home stager will visit your home, discuss your budget and set a timeframe to conduct a complete tour of your home.
- A professional home stager takes measurements, photos and notes of the home.
- The professional home stager will look over the property concentrating issues like condition, presence of clutter, cleanliness, traffic flow, furniture placement, use of space, light and use of color.
- At the end of the visit, the professional home stager will provide you with a checklist of detailed recommendations and a prioritized action plan that will make your home Open House ready.
- The professional home stager advises you on what to remove, where to shop, and suggest color choices so you can begin to make changes immediately.
At Archic design, we delight in carrying out all the functions above. So, you can request a cost estimate for us to do the staging process.
But it is also fine if you want to do the crux of the work yourself. We will be here to guide and support. Leaving us with the job from start to finish however, means that we will ask you to make your home ready. Making your home ready entails making minor repairs, painting removing, packing and repackaging some items or storing pieces of furniture among other things.
Upon completion of our staging, we can also provide you as an optional service with a set of pictures of your newly staged home for use in Internet marketing and brochures.

What Are The Things To Expect From a Home Staging Consultation?
Either you would like to have an in-person consultation or virtual meeting, the number of things to expect as a buyer or an estate agent during a home staging consultation includes but are not limited to the following:
Virtual/Online Consultation:
If you would rather speak to a home staging expert from the comfort of your home, you are lucky. At Archic design, we have been consulting with clients online for a long haul. Considering the perks of online consultation and the ongoing pandemic, we intend to continue virtual consultation. We intend to continually do our part where public health and safety rules are concerned; for this reason, we will continue to use Zoom calls, WhatsApp calls and google meets among other platforms to conduct home staging meetings for two (2) hours. At the end of every session, our clients may expect
- Checklist of detailed recommendations
- Prioritized action plan that will make your home open house ready.


So, yes! We are likely to engage you in home staging consultation if you patronize us. Are you curious about the meaning of home consultation?
Well, home staging consultation is a detailed online discussion and education/advisory service to review what you should do to your property before listing.
When consulting, you will get suggestions about the best lighting to improve the home’s appeal, and you likely get to hear about the appropriate furniture type and design to enhance the styling and beauty of the home.
Next Line of Action
Home staging is now a great deal and, from all indications, an advantage to stagers, agents and home buyers especially. It is no surprise that more people now consider it a necessity. The steps involved in the consultation – inspection, meeting with agents, repair, improving the curb’s view and installing essential things, among other things are essential before buying a home. As to what you can expect from home staging consultation, the fact that time and the price are top on the list is no surprise. Are you interested in selling a property and you don’t know how to go about it? Book an appointment with the professionals, let us walk you through the process.
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