Home Staging is all about the feeling. The feeling or mood created for a target buyer.
I remember a few years ago, my children and I traveled to Ireland. The only experiences of Ireland I had up until then were pictures of the beautiful country and the Irish Rovers. I do remember how listening to an Irish Band in an Irish Pub, really added to the experience.
When we were traveling around Ireland, we visited some of the tourist places like the Blarney Stone Castle and yes we kissed the blarney stone. While we were visiting a gift store we decided to buy a CD of traditional Irish music to listen to in our rental car as we traveled around Ireland. It was amazing how different traveling felt while listening to this music. As we traveled the “Ring of Kerry” along cliffs and narrow roads lined with trees that joined above the road to form a tunnel, we listened to our music. Every once in while we had to stop to let the sheep go across the road. The hydrangeas were in abundance in all the gardens we passed and were the deepest blue I have ever seen and I didn’t know that yuccas grew as tall as the sky.
When we arrived back home and tried to listen to the same CD, it just didn’t have the same feel while sitting in the family room here in Canada.
Good home staging really creates a feeling for a prospective buyer. Whether it is a family feeling using toys or a DVD on a coffee table or even a game to represent family time together. Cheese and crackers, wine bottles can represent entertaining friends and soft music can represent relaxing in your home or give a spa feeling in a bathroom. All these elements help buyers emotionally move into a home for sale. The mood should appeal to the target buyer to get it sold.
Karen Hubert
Home Staging Solutions
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Karen, I love the photo of Ireland -- I've been there and enjoyed the flavor of that country both in what I saw, heard and learned. To me, it's all about what it looks like -- thus the importance of staging!
Karen, What a creative Post!!! Text and HTML interspersed. You know what? All you need to do is Stage Your Blog Post! I get it, you are way ahead of all of us. CHEERS! Come to Venice when you get a chance!
Thanks everyone. I think it is ok now. James: I do hope to get to Venice one day. I have also been to Greece and Austria so far.
Karen ~ I loved your post, having lived in Ireland for 8 years starting in 1996. My grandfather was from a town on the Ring of Kerry and his descendants still live in the cottage he was born in, where I've stayed many times. I know all about that "feeling" when you relate it to staging....most of my work is the result of an intuitive feeling that overcomes me when working on every staging project. Emotion is what makes buyers make an offer -- if you ignore the importance of emotion, your staged home has no "soul." By the way your photo of the Cliffs of Moher and O'Brien's tower in County Clare is great! I can't wait to go back for another visit soon.
Ah, fond memories of Ireland!
We stage to get to buyer's emotions-great post!!!
I want to see Ireland someday...beautiful photo...thanks for inspiring me. I love to travel!!!!
I have always wanted to visit Ireland. My grandfather's family was from Ireland. You are exactly right about staging for the feeling. I was a REALTOR for over 28 years before starting my staging company and I used to prepare prospective buyers for what they would feel when they entered the right home for them. You could see it in their faces and see it in their body language when they walked through the door. Great post.
Thanks, Karen for such an inspirational post. You got me thinking on my next trip to Europe, for sure.
Happy staging! Hope to see you soon!
Ireland is on my want to do list. I think you're right about the mood and relating it to staging -- good point!