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Odd Floor Plans Need Staging + Updating Adds More to the Value
This formal living room area has a curved wall and people could not visualize where a sofa could be placed. The furniture helps to give the space function and appeal to the right and left brain. The left brain is practical and the right brain responds to color and style.
The addition of furniture not only allows the homebuyer to visualize where furniture could go; it lights up the part of the brain that makes buying decisions. That's why a car dealer has the customer test drive the car instead of look at a brochure.
There is a specific color thread that draws a buyer eye through the various rooms. There is a psychology to the color repetition.
This family room in the same house has a wide open space that was hard to define. A chaise style sofa strategically placed shows how much space there is for additional furniture. Such as, a sofa and loveseat.
The breakfast room table shows that the space is roomy and cozy. The pillows, art and dishes tie in the blue painted island. Nice!!
Directly across from this kitchen with the blue island is this beautiful accent wall. Garrison Sanborn with Sotheby's International Real Estate in Ponte Vedra updated the kitchen and bath and created this beautiful wall before putting it on the market. How nice to have a realtor with updating skills.
Take a look at this gorgeous master bath that he envisioned.
The whole point of this story is... consult a professional before listing a property to get updating advice and then stage it to get the full market value. I had a friend with a small patio home in our chic Ponte Vedra area and the savvy realtor/stager team told him...
"If you invest $10,000 in updating and then stage it, we can get $390 for it. If you do nothing, we can get $290. A $90,000 swing. Pretty obvious what the answer is. Update, then stage!!!
