Home staging can't fix a price expectation, a structural problem, the dimensions of a room, or the colour of your walls. It also can't sell a house on its own. What it does is change how many buyers seriously consider a home, and that's a narrower job than most people assume when they book it. Most people booking styling have never done it before. There's no reference point for what's normal, it happens under time pressure, and everyone in the conversation sells something. So here's the honest list, from a company that's styled more than 8,000 homes across Brisbane [...]

Why two staging quotes for the same home can differ by thousands You have two staging quotes for the same house and one of them is thousands more than the other. Nothing on either page explains why. Most of the time you are not comparing apples with apples. The quotes are for two different jobs. Seven things to check before you compare the numbers: How many rooms are in each quote What each room actually includes How long the furniture stays in the house How much furniture the company owns When they can fit your install in What happens [...]

Why the styling that sells an apartment won't sell an acreage A small apartment and a five-bedroom acreage home need completely different furniture. That sounds obvious, and it still catches people out. What works depends on the home itself, and on the buyers most likely to walk through it at the first open. Here is how it changes across the homes we see most. Furniture that's the right size for the room helps buyers understand how the space works. Furniture that's too big does the opposite. A small apartment shows that mistake faster than any [...]

Getting your home ready to sell: what order to do things inMost sellers know roughly what needs doing. Paint, garden, a few repairs, photos, styling. What trips people up is the order, because some of those jobs block others and you only find out when the truck can't come.Here's the sequence that works, assuming you're four to six weeks out from photo day.  This surprises people, because a lot of sellers want the home ready before they bring an agent through. Some of them are trying to get it styled before the appraisal, on the theory that [...]

Why the smallest properties get the biggest return from stylingIf you are weighing up styling a small apartment for sale, here is the part most sellers get backwards. The smaller the property, the bigger the return you tend to get from styling it. A compact one or two-bedroom apartment is often the property that gains the most from being styled well, not the least.That sounds wrong the first time you hear it. Surely a big family home has more to gain. But the reason comes down to how buyers judge a small space, how hard these apartments are to sell [...]