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Home Staging For Dummies |  | Authors: Christine Rae, Jan Saunders Maresh
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470260289
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.12
EAN: 9780470260289
ASIN: 0470260289
Publication Date: May 5, 2008
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Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? Home Staging For Dummies delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way. Featuring eight full-color pages of instructive before-and-after photos, this completely practical guide demonstrates how and why to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, and pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house. Youâll get a handle on what buyers want and how to show it to them, find plenty of do-it-yourself tasks that add real value to your home, and get tips on producing photos of your home that will have buyers craving to see more! Discover how to: - See your home as prospective buyers will see it
- Know what needs doing and what doesnât
- Master the three-step home staging process
- Add real value to your home without breaking the bank
- Decide whether to DIY or call in the pros
- Create curb appeal
- Make a great first impression with a beautiful entryway
- Spruce up your kitchen, bathroom, living, and dining rooms
- Turn your bedrooms into a buyerâs dream
- Whip your mechanicals into top shape
- Avoid staging nightmares
Get top dollar for your home â all you need is a little help from Home Staging For Dummies!
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 Easy to follow instructions June 1, 2010
Kathy Heckathorn (Lake Forest, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This very helpful book is chock full of helpful ideas to sell your home faster. The instructions are clear, concise and easy to follow. Great for For Sale By Owner types and REALTORS® as well.
 Good Tips March 30, 2010
Green Interior Designer (New York)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As an interior designer and stager, I read all the books on staging and design, always looking for a new nugget or two of good information.
If you need to learn the basics to staging your home, Home Staging for Dummies will help. The book will walk you through the basics of staging--cleaning, removing clutter, organizing and showing off your home's good features tot he fullest advantage. That said, the book is slanted to convince you to pay for the services of a stager.
This book can also help you determine if you want to stage your home yourself or hire a pro. Make no mistake--most of us have tons of clutter and getting a home ready for sale is no small chore.
In a buyer's market, learning how to make your home stand above the competition is crucial to sell it--and for a good price.
While I recommend Home Staging for Dummies, there is nothing really new here and DIY isn't really encouraged. I would recommend SELL YOUR HOME FAST IN A BUYER'S MARKET along with this book for DIY's and for some cutting edge approaches to selling your home--like adding green features and other great tips.
 OK, but annoying. Try Complete Idiot's Guide . . . instead February 8, 2010
Pat in Northern Utah
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
OK, I got some good ideas from this book, which I bought because we're getting ready to put our house on the market. There are several things I hadn't thought of, even given the fact that I'm an HGTV junkie.
However, the book is really aimed at people who are going to HIRE a professional stager, which isn't really what the title implies (yes, I know, . . . For Dummies is a huge series of books). There is way too much self-promotion, promotion of whatever the professional organization is, promotion of the authors' friends or associates, selection of a professional, meeting with the professional, recommending products sold on their websites, and on and on and on. I got the feeling that there is a secret club, one to which I'm not welcome, unless, of course, I hired one of them.
I wish all of the before-and-after pairs of photos had been shot from the exact spot at exactly the same angle. In many of them, it was hard to see what changes were made. The photos nearly all being B & W is a problem, too, but probably not one within the authors' control. They probably could have left out the small color section in the middle of the book, since the first photo (the BLUE one) is garish enough to make you think it's a "before" example (so much for neutrals).
Because the authors are clearly out to sell their services, they seem to have a sort of "take no prisoners" approach. So many of their dictates seem to be those that would get done in the best of all possible worlds, but not this one. I doubt that, after rightly reducing their number by half, arranging all of the food items in my pantry with their labels facing forward would make much difference to a buyer. Actually, since we're trying desperately not to distract the buyer, I'd worry about the distraction created by them wondering just what kind of person would do such a thing, reading the labels on the boxes and cans, discussing my brand selections, wondering if I'm a good cook, etc. I'm in no way discounting the value of staging, which I totally "get," but some of these things really seem like overkill and seem almost to have been put into the book to make sellers think that, "no, I can't really do it myself; I'd better hire a professional."
I'd recommend The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell over this one.
Very helpful July 19, 2009
Inspired Trainer (OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very helpful if you want to stage your home yourself.
Excellent April 16, 2009
USA Native (Florida, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Love, love, love this book & Christine. Christine doesn't fill this book with a lot of fluff like some other Home Staging books. Her information in solid & detailed. Helpful in answering questions for the homeowner, novice stager in addition to the well versed Stager.
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