Von Nordmann Home Styling LLC

Did you know that for an investment of about 1 to 3 percent of the listing price, the return for a staged home will be about 8 to 10 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors? It was actually discovered that home sellers recovered nearly 350% of the cost of staging through the sale of their home in a 2007 HomeGain Survey of over 2000 Realtors. An investment in staging your home will always be less than the first price reduction and your home will generally sell in half the time or less. In these times where homes will languish for more than 9 months on the market with numerous price reductions, you truly cannot afford not to stage. Staging will also save you many extra months of paying your mortgage and other common charges, especially if you have already bought your new home. It has been proven that vacant homes will stay on the market even longer than badly furnished homes as only about 10% of the population can imagine how a vacant home will look like furnished. A staged home will actually sell for 17% more on average than an unstaged one, reports the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. The numbers speak for themselves.

The home buyer generally wants to buy a place that seems as if no one else has ever lived in it before and is in tip-top shape. Who wants to buy a place where the wallpaper is peeling, there are tons of toys all over the floor, the plants are half-dead, strange odors abound, the bathroom is dirty, the closets are bursting at the seams, the light fixtures are outdated, there is no room for a single car in the garage as it is packed with boxes of clothes and Christmas decorations, the dining room is used as the gym as well as the office and so on. Or a home that is completely empty and thus actually appears smaller as well as cold and sterile. Surveys show that buyers are even more prone to paying more for a home that is completely updated as any renovation will usually take longer and cost more than planned. In today’s market, the buyer expects the home to meet their highest expectations, so we will make sure the buyer is not disappointed when walking into your home for the first time. We will help you get top dollar for your home along with fewer hassles and costs due to your home selling in less time than if it were left as is.

Staging is about creating a depersonalized and neutral space so that potential buyers can envision their favorite collections in the space instead of being distracted by the home seller’s personal trinkets and works of art. Using the F-E-E-L H-O-M-E philosophy from the Home Staging Resource, the Von Nordmann Home Styling LLC is able to create the necessary emotional connection points for the potential buyer. On the other hand, interior redesign and decorating is all about personalizing your home with all those items that you as the homeowner connect to emotionally. Both home staging and interior redesign are often able to utilize your existing pieces of furniture along with a few new accessories and pieces of art as well as a thorough paint job to completely revamp and update the look of your home for very different purposes. Home staging is all about making your home attractive and feel like home to the home buyer by depersonalizing it while interior redesign and decorating is all about personalizing your home to make you as the homeowner feel truly at home.