Staging A Vacant Home - What’s Really Involved?
With vacant homes on the rise in the real estate market more people are turning to Home Stagers to give their home that competitive edge. What most people don’t realize is the time and labor involved in staging a vacant home.
After the necessary recommendations and improvements from the Home Staging Consultation Report has been implemented the actual Home Staging process begins.
The following usually takes place for Home Stagers when staging a Vacant home:
- Visiting the property to take a look at each room, the space, feel, and style of home.
- Visually figuring out what furniture and accessories will best fit the spaces to be done, also known as space planning.
- Taking photos of each room.
- Figuring out the cost of furniture and accessories for the house.
- Possible shopping for items needed specifically for that home.
- Ordering furniture, paperwork, contracts, and phone calls.
- Delivery of furniture from Furniture Company, if you use one.
- Going to warehouse to start picking out and packing accessories.
- Getting a truck, or trailer to carry all of the items you’ll need.
- Loading all items, accessories and furniture into truck or vehicle of choice. (Hoping you don’t need anything else and have to make extra trips).
- Driving to location.
- Unloading items from truck, unpacking, and placement of items and furniture, known as hands-on staging.
- Make sure everything is perfect, and nothing is left behind.
- Take after photos.
- Taking all excess that’s not used, including totes or boxes and load back into truck.
- Drive back to warehouse to unload.
- Drive home and Crash!
- Wake up the next day sore from head to toe, with scrapes, bruises and cuts, (forget about having perfect nails).
- House Sells…Then What?
- Call furniture company to pick-up furniture.
- Drive to get truck that you’ll be using to bring items back.
- Drive to warehouse to get totes and boxes to put items from home back into them.
- Drive to house that has now sold.
- Start packing, bubble wrapping, and placing all items in totes.
- Load furniture and accessories into truck.
- Drive back to warehouse. Unload, Unpack, and put everything back into warehouse.
- Take truck back.
- Drive home and crash again!
- Start all over on the next house on the next day!
This is just an example of what usually happens, every Home Stager does it a little differently.
The homeowner doesn’t see the behind the scenes work that goes on, but the average time from start to finish can average anywhere from 20-25 hours. The actual hands-on staging in the home can be from 1-3 days, depending on how much is done.
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Cindy Bryant - Owner of Redesign Etc. a Home Staging & Interior Redesign Service. Serving Houston to Galveston.
She is the Regional Vice President of the Real Estate Staging Association for TX, NM, AR, Ok, and LA. She is also an active member in the Society of American Home Stagers & Redesigners.
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