When it comes to selling your home, first impressions matter. Potential buyers often make snap judgments based on a property’s appearance, which is why staging has become a crucial aspect of the real estate sales process.
So what is staging? Home staging is the art of strategically arranging and enhancing a property to make it more appealing to potential buyers. Rather than letting people see your house as you live in it, staging depersonalizes the space and highlights its potential, thus maximizing its marketability. The goal is to showcase the home’s best features while creating a welcoming atmosphere that allows buyers to envision themselves – not you – living there.
But that means you have to move a lot of your stuff out of your house. What are you going to do with it? Epic Storage has the solution. Using our storage units can help you sell your home faster and at a higher price – which often means a storage unit can pay for itself. In addition, our storage solution may also make it easier and less stressful to move when you find your new home.
Staging Requires You to Remove Stuff From Your House
Staging is easy if you have already moved out before you put your house on the market. You might have to leave a few pieces of your furniture behind, but more often, it means renting or borrowing furniture that can be set up in your home.
However, most people still have to live in their current home while it is on the market. So what will you have to remove from your house for staging? To understand what might be involved, here are some of the basic principles behind effective staging and what that means for you:
- Declutter: Decluttering your home is one of the most critical aspects of staging. This means removing all personal items and excess furnishings to create a spacious feel. It can mean removing artwork, decorations, books, knick-knacks, furnishings, clothing, and other stuff.
- Neutralize: Neutral colors on walls and furniture help create a blank canvas that allows buyers to imagine their own style and possessions in the space. For a homeowner, that means removing all the items that make strong or bold impressions – things that show your personality and style.
- Maximize Space: Arrange furniture to highlight the flow and functionality of each room and create an illusion of ample space. This often means removing some of the furniture and all the owner’s other extra stuff, cutting it down to a minimalist feel.
- Highlight Key Features: Showcasing a home’s best features, like architectural details, fireplaces, or beautiful views, may mean that the homeowner will have to rearrange furniture and cut down on accessories so that focal points can stand out.
- Depersonalize: Since the goal is to make buyers envision themselves living in the space, anything personal – photographs, mementos, toys and games, older furniture, artwork, unusual decor – must go.
The Cost-Effective Solution: Store Your Stuff With Epic
Staging requires whittling down the item in your home to those possessions that 1) you can leave in the house because they work for staging and 2) what you need to have in the house to function. Chances are, after you have gone through this process, you will have a bunch of stuff that has to go. But where can you put it? Epic Storage has the answer.
Why choose Epic when it comes to needing temporary storage space for staging? Here are some reasons why Epic is your best choice:
- Storage Options: Epic has nine different sizes of storage spaces, meaning you only have to rent – and pay for – the space you require, and no more.
- Convenience: We have storage facilities in Rathdrum and Hauser, Idaho.
- 24-Hour Access: If you find out that you need something you packed up, no problem. Our storage facilities are accessible to our customers 24 hours per day.
- Secure: Our facility is fully fenced, and well-lit at all times. The access gate is monitored, and you need a gate code in order to enter our facility. For your specific storage unit, you supply the lock.
- No Contracts: When staging a home, you don’t know if you may need to rent storage space for three weeks or three months. That’s not a problem — we only rent on a month-to-month basis.
- Prorated Rents: If you find out that you only need the storage unit for part of a month, just let us know. If you clean your unit out, we will issue a refund for the period of the month you did not use it.
- Flexible: If you find out that you need a larger or a smaller rental unit, you can request a transfer to a different size unit, subject to availability.
- Easy Payment: There are multiple options for payment: in person, over the phone, or by automatic withdrawals. Rents are always due on the first day of the month.
Choose Epic Storage When Staging Your Home
Staging your home is a proven strategy to attract buyers, and many real estate agents recommend it if you want your house to sell fast and for top dollar. Rather than sweat the process, take advantage of it and begin packing.
When you have an Epic Storage unit already rented out, you don’t have to do everything in one day or one week. You can pack up a few boxes at a time and put them in storage. When it comes time to move, you can move your already-boxed items from your storage unit. The process is cost-effective and optimizes your home-sale strategy. In addition, packing and moving your belongings without time pressure can take much of the stress out of moving.
If you are thinking of putting your house on the market or have already started the process and need a storage solution to help you stage your home, call Epic Storage today.