Are you selling a home in Portland Oregon and want to make sure it appeals to potential buyers? Consider using a professional home stager to help you prepare your home to make it irresistible. We offer easy cost-effective home staging tips in the form of a home staging consultation proven to reduce market time or "hands on" staging to make sure your home shows beautifully for buyers.
Here's a home staging tip that we often share with our clients .... Color is one way to make a big impact for a small investment! Using color helps buyers make an emotional connection to a home. Color can influence a buyer's mood and bring back good memories as well.
In these Before & After photos you'll see how a bland, plain-vanilla space was transformed into rooms that appeal to both parents and kids ... the color makes it come alive and says "your child will love living in a room like this."
In the room above, using primary colors added life to a white, sterile space that the builder wanted to show as a child's room.
In the photo above, the listing broker asked us to stage this room as a child's bedroom since the target buyer was a family with young children (this home had only 2 bedrooms) and the home had been on the market vacant for nearly a year. Color helped the room come alive -- resulting in a quick sale after staging!
In the example above, we used the sheets in the comforter set to make an impromptu headboard as well as valances for the windows -- to add more color to this room. This home sold in just one month!
The room above was shown as a spare room with no imagination -- but adding color and a few props resulted in a room that buyers could relate to!
In this photo we used some colorful props to take advantage of a niche in a dormer bedroom; this home sold in just 14 days!
This post is Part 1 in a series of Home Staging Tips for Sellers in Portland OR ... here are the other posts in the series:
Home Staging Tips for Sellers in Portland OR: Appeal to your Target Buyer
Home Staging Tips for Sellers in Portland OR: Enhance your Kitchen
Home Staging Tips for Sellers in Portland Oregon: Stage your Dining Room to Show its Purpose
Home Staging Tips for Sellers in Portland Oregon: Don't Show This but DO show That
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Maureen- good post and I liked what you did with the color. I just did a consultation last night for someone who had purchased her home 3 months ago. Every wall is white! We picked out colors to make her new home POP and take away the sterile look of white.
Kathy ~ Color is so important, isn't it? Either proper color in the form of paint on the wall, or used in furnishings & art can make a buyer feel comfortable -- and make an offer! Although I can't stand white walls in a home, sometimes repainting them isn't in the budget for sellers, so staging helps to bring the needed color in.
Maureen - What fun rooms! You are right in that children's rooms should look inviting and fun to the kids too!
Shelley ~ Sometimes we find that the kids like to play with our staging props LOL! If the kids like the home it can't hurt. Thanks for dropping by.
Love the kids room example photos Maureen. If I had to find a niche it would be kids rooms redesigns...too much fun. I'm trying to guess what your part 2 will be? Hmmmm.
Those are so cute, great use of space. No wonder it sold quick!
great post, I love all the rooms, I'm sure any child would happy to have any of them for their room. You did a great job.
Ginger ~ Don't you just love kid's rooms, especially the fun you can have with color? Stay tuned ... Part 2 in a few days.
Cindy ~ I love it when clients want a child's room staged. Do you do many of them?
Chrissie ~ I'd have liked these rooms myself when I was younger. I did get to select wallpaper in my bedroom when I was about 7 ... and that was a lot of fun.
Children's rooms are such fun to do. I wish more clients would opt to stage them as it adds a whimsical and playful touch that brings a smile to your face. Your use of color is especially appealing!
Kathy ~ It's that whimsical & playful element that's often a welcome reprieve from the more serious side of staging! Thanks for your feedback.
Maureen: It is a GREAT TOOL to stage a child's room. When the kids are hooked and want that to be thier space, you know how persistant they can be..... Great post!
Todd - You're right -- it can't hurt when the kids love "their" space too! Thanks for joining in.
You are color spectacular. I am motivated now to use MORE, MORE, and some MORE!
Karen ~ Feell free to go WILD with color, especially in a child's room -- have fun!
These are great examples. I'll have to send them to a friend who is having a baby. Kids rooms were really missing at the Portland Street of Dreams this year. Only one place had a child's room. I always like the fun themes of princesses & sports & heaven knows what else. Fun to do.
Pangaea ~ a kid's room without color just doesn't come alive does it? I love to look at them in model homes too.
Hey, Maureen. I left a surprise for you in my blog post this morning. Let me know when you find it. What? You thought I was going to tell you exactly where it is? Ha! This comment is a clue, though.
Hi Russel ~ That was a very fun surprise today -- thank you for including my post in your Golden Oldies!!
Maureen: I definately missed this post but great examples of using color in the furnishings not on the walls as most people do. Great before & after pics gives great ideas too.
Hi Lyn ~ Thanks for commenting ... when a home has already been painted, if the walls are really bland we just add color with art and accesories -- easy!
Big difference! I'm not sure but I think my condo was staged when I bought it. My imagination's not good so I needed a little help to see what I could do.
I followed Russel Ray's Golden Oldies post over here.
Hi Eric ~ Thanks for stopping by! It was fun to have my post selected for one of Russel's Golden Oldies! BTW staging helps a lot of buyers to be able to imagine how they might use the space.
I'm also following the link from Russel Ray's Golden Oldies post.
Huge difference, Maureen. Beautiful job!
Hi Jim ~ Thanks so much for stopping by from Russel's Golden Oldies post!
That is an amazing transformation. I couldn't take my eyes off the pictures as I write this on a very dreary, dark, rainy day. Can't underestimate the power of color.
Hi Jill ~ Thanks for stopping by to comment on my post! I know what you mean about dreary, rainy days ... here in Oregon we have many of them, so that's another reason why we like to add color to brighten up a room for potential buyers.