Home Staging

"Dream but only with your eyes wide open."

Collaborate Design Studio can offer you a tool in selling your home, whether you are working with an agent or selling your home by owner. By staging a home, a potential buyer is immediately given an impression of a neat, unified home. Sellers only have one chance to make a first impression, and it is important to that you present the best image of your home to potential buyers.

Ten Tips to Get Your Home Ready for Selling

1. Embrace the saying, “You only have one chance to make a first impression!” Look around your house with this in mind.

2. Start with the foyer, as that is where the buyers will enter the home. Evaluate what you see when you first step into your house. Keep it simple, clean, and organized.

3. Remove clutter from all areas of the house. This includes closets!

4. Banish excess furniture, accessories and personal belongings from each room.

5. Make sure the kitchen is spotless. Remove extraneous items from the counters.

6. Take down outdated wallpaper; paint walls so that each room transitions to the next. Use warm, neutral colors, not bold and splashy!

7. Clean or replace carpets.

8. Ensure all odors are gone!

9. Avoid a dark house. Turn on lights and draw back drapes. If a lighting fixture “dates” your house, replace it.

10. Bathrooms must be spotless and have fresh towels, clean grout, and sparkling mirrors and fixtures.

Make use of what you already own to re-style your home for a fresh look. Our designers will advise you on options for changing your floor plan to optimize your existing furniture and accessories.

Let us “see” your rooms through our eyes and help you make changes to create a new, unique look.

Putting the finishing touches on a room can be as stressful as designing the room itself for some homeowners. The accessories that adorn our rooms tell volumes about ourselves, and work overtime making the room into what we envision. However, achieving the perfect balance takes time, patience, and understanding of the special requirements of each piece to pull together that great designer look.

Collaborate Design Studio can help you put the finishing touches in your home. Our hundreds of resources enable us to find the items to make your home unique and appealing to you!

Your home is a reflection of your taste and style. Let your accessories create a room that expresses who you are.