How To Stage Your Home for Success - YouTube

Channel: Designing Spaces

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This competitively priced home is a 3-2,
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near the beach, and in a great school
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district but Noel hasn't had any serious
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offers.
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Noelle's listing has been on the market
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for nearly 90 days and she hasn't had
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one bite.
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what's really great but I will
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say that I think the master bedroom is a
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bit small for my liking, so I think from
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here we keep on looking.
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If you've ever
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been in the market for a new home you
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know that gut feeling that will either
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make you want to love it or leave it.
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Um it will tell you it's in a nice area
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but to be honest the kitchen's a little
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outdated so I think I'm going to keep
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looking.
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It's more than just an outdated
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kitchen or the wrong lighting that can
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turn a buyer off so to help this frustrated realtor get her
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listing under contract quickly, Designing
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Spaces is sending in the Home Staging
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expert and author of the first seven
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seconds Karen Conrad.
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Hi Karen.
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How are you?
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I'm Noel, nice to meet you.
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Thank you so much for coming.
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You are welcome.
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Wow this is beautiful.
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It's a lovely home it's a 3-bedroom
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2-bath split floorplan.
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It's been on the market for
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almost 90 days and I still haven't
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gotten any offers.
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Wow okay so what kind
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of feedback are you getting?
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Honestly people are saying that the
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kitchen's a little dated, the master
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bedroom's a little small, there's nothing specific
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so it's kind of frustrating because it's
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not something I can pinpoint.
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Okay so well
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why don't you show me around?
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Sure, I'd love to.
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Okay.
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All right Karen here's the
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master bedroom.
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Well this is a beautiful
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room, you mentioned that in the feedback
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the master felt a little small.
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Yes.
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It might be because they don't see it as
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a master suite and so with very little
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space I'm going to turn this into a master
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suite.
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I like that.
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All right should we look at
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the bathroom?
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Yeah sure.
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The tiles' nice and the shower looks
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fairly new the light fixtures, people are saying it feels
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a little small.
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It is small, and so we're
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going to need to open this up, also I'll
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make sure that the master bathroom ties
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really nicely into the master bedroom.
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Mmm.
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When we do that, they feel like it's more
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one-room.
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Great, thanks.
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Let me show you the rest.
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All right Karen, so here's a focal
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point of the home, it's a walk in the
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front door the first thing people are going
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to see.
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This is the most critical room for us to
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take a look at with staging because
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statistics shows that the buyer actually
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makes a decision in the first 7 to 10
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seconds that they step into a house.
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we see she's got children, so we're
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going to move the children's items out
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also there's some personal pictures
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that we want to remove because we want
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that buyer to walk in and see
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themselves living here.
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Alright Karen here is the
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second bathroom.
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This is an awesome
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bathroom I like the tile, I like the
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update a sink.
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The fixtures are awesome
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but I think we need to get the kids
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stuff out of here.
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we really need to make
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this a very spa-like, elegant and so I'm
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going to bring in a lot of white towels
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and I'm going to bring in some more
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greenery and maybe some candles and just
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see if we can't get this looking really
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really special.
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I really really like this
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house it just needs some touches that is
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going to make someone when they walk in
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the house absolutely fall in love with it.
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I agree.
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The only problem I have, I have
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an open house this weekend is there any
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way you can get all that done in three days?
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Well, well it will be tough
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but you know what I am ready for it.
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Let's go for it.
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Amazing.
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Noel has an open house in
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just three days, so I really have my work
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cut out for me and I'm actually really
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excited to get started so I'm going to
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head out and start shopping.
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Hi Karen!
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Hi, Noel.
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I'm so excited to see you.
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Thank you.
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Are you ready to get this done?
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Let's do this.
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We are all set to go just in time.
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Oh my goodness look I think your first
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potential buyers are here.
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See you later Noel.
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Bye, thanks Karen.
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Hi hi ladies, how
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are you?
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Hi, how are you?
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Come on in.
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Thanks.
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That was a lot of work in
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a short period of time but I really
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think it's going to make all the difference for Noel.
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We have seven to ten
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seconds to capture the heart of the
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buyer and I think we did it.
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For more
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information on how to grab a buyers
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attention in that first seven seconds go
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to karen conrad dot net.
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It was great, it's
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perfect for her out of all that we've seen.
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Right?
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Yeah.