Home Staging Chappaqua, Take Two
Home Staging Chappaqua leads to a sale after a failed first attempt.
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A built-in bookcase is decluttered and the desk no longer blocks the path to view one of the home’s best features—the pool and private backyard that abuts a nature preserve. Sometimes the best feature of a home isn’t actually in the room.
Backyard with distant view of pool.
Lisa reaches out to me after the home spends almost 4 months on the market. She and her husband are eager to sell as they are building their dream home about an hour away.
We stage the home using just what the home seller already has. Mostly we edit, paint, and rearrange furniture to ensure buyers see all of the wonderful features this parcel of property has to offer.
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A slightly different angle, but I think you’re seeing that the distractions to viewing the property are now removed.
During a four-month break from the market, over the winter holidays, these home owners use the time to apply the recommendations made at our home staging consultation.
This 4-bed, 4-bath, 3,900-square-foot, Colonial in Chappaqua is relisted and finally sells for 1.35M, just 3.2% below the revised asking price. The offer comes in quickly, and contracts are signed just 38 days after relisting.
Here’s what home seller Lisa writes a few days after contracts are signed:
We are thrilled to share that we signed a contract for the sale of our house. While the market is not great in our price range, all you need is one family that can envision your home as their own. The work you did to help us purge/repurpose 30 years of stuff and arrange the rooms to best showcase what our house has to offer was undoubtedly a factor.
I learned a lot from seeing our house through your eyes, and I even enjoyed sliding furniture with you to find the right look for each room.
Also, I see you are doing a series of workshops—kudos to you! I am going to recommend these workshops to my friends.
Thanks so much.
We have only one “paint emergency” along the way, when the painters misunderstand the instructions and begin to paint over the very subtle faux finished walls in the kitchen.
It turns out to be a happy accident, as we minimize the faux, keeping it to only the dramatic range hood. The home owner, Lisa, loves the faux and is happy that this highlight remains, while buyers now see a fresh look and value only new paint can deliver.
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Meeting home buyers halfway is better than not meeting them at all. The carpet remains while wallpaper and items that are no longer desired are removed. The result is a room that appears less like a library and more like what it is, a master bedroom.
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