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Staging your house for top dollar
Staging your house just before it goes on the market can make a dramatic improvement in your sales. Staging's goal is to highlight the home's strengths and downplay its weaknesses. House staging is the biggest house-effect out there and for good reason: it works!
8 Staging Steps
8 easy steps that you can use for each room in your home to stage it quickly and professionally.
Staging Your Dining Room
Dining rooms were once a symbol of wealth. Ordinary middle class people ate in the kitchen. Then every new home had to have a dining room and people found out that it wasn't a lot of fun eating in the dining room every night.
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Removing the clutter
Classic strategy:
the 4-box method
to sort through clutter
Clutter is evidence of many things: poor habits, lack of organization, sentimental attachment, and just too much stuff. Each item of clutter is actually a decision delayed. For example, when the mail arrives, most people will sort through it and pull out the bills or important letters, then toss the rest in a pile to be decided upon later-- a delayed decision. Why not decide when first handling the mail which pieces should be saved and which to toss right then?
The 4-Box method forces a decision, item by item. Get 3 boxes and a large trash can. Label the boxes, "Put Away", "Give Away/Sell" and "Storage." Items to be thrown away belong in the trash can.
Take the 4 boxes to the de-clutter area. One at a time, pick up each piece of clutter and ask yourself "Do I want to put this away in another place, donate it (or sell it at a yard sale), store it, or throw it away?"
At the end of the de-cluttering session, reserve 10 to 15 minutes to empty the boxes. Place the "Put Away" items in more appropriate places. "Give Away/Sell" items should be stored outside the house, in a garage, or in the trunk of the car for drop-off at a charity donation center. As each Storage box fills, make a brief inventory of the contents and put the box into the storage area. Finally, empty the trash quickly to prevent second thoughts!
The 4-Box method will work for anyone, in any de-clutter mode. Use it to clear a shelf or drawer each day, or apply it as part of a whole-house weekend assault on clutter. By forcing a decision, it will serve you well as you cull clutter from the home.
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