Buyers all start with a check list of items that they want to have in their next home. It could be a double car garage, a large eat in kitchen, four bedrooms or an in law suite. In the end for most buyers, it comes down to emotion and how they feel in a house.
That's why home staging is one of the best marketing tools you have to prepare your home for sale. Advantage Staging tries to create a vignette somewhere in the home that will have the buyer saying "I knew right away this house was for me!"
All I did in these homes was create master ensuite vignettes that make you think you are staying at a spa hotel retreat. And who wouldn't like the thought that?
You can create a very zen, spa like look using very simple, white towels, florals and soap dispensers. White always symbolizes clean and inviting.
A splash of colour can also create that fresh look you would like to see in a bathroom.
When you are listing a home, one of the most important areas of the home to a buyer after the kitchen is the master ensuite.
These are the two areas that the buyer of the house will be using every day so make them look their best.
Clean, clean , and then clean again. Then stage the bathroom to create the "get a way from it all" look that todays buyers see in every decor magazine and on HGTV design shows.
Home staging is not an expensive option that only higher price point homes use to market their properties. These staging vignettes ranged in price from $18 - $35 each creating a magazine like quality to them which buyers take note of.
Investment, minimal.
Impact, priceless.
Michelle Finnamore Advantage Staging Two offices to serve you better.
Vaughan & Woodbridge Area 416.928.2999
Barrie and Area 705.720.0113
2010 National Association of Home Builders U.S.A. Silver Award for design
2010 Ontario Home Builders Association Silver Award for design
2010 Canadian Staging Professionals Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Michelle - What a great idea. I do see you're from Canada. Is the term "ensuite" Canadian? I am not familiar with using that term.
Michelle - so simple but you are making a very definite statement about class, elegance, simplicity and great design .. Perfect! Gay
Michelle ~ simple, zen-like accessories do give a bathroom a spa feeling, which buyers love because of the emotional connection they make. Your staging and photos are wonderful examples of the best way to do this!
Love using simple, white spa accessories. Great post as always!!!
HI Bill and Cyndi, Thanks for stopping in to see my photos. Ensuite is a french canadian word which means " a part of a single unit or set" . These pictures are showing the bathroom attached to a master bedroom or "suite". What do you call the bathroom attached to a master bedroom in your area?
HI Gay, that's exactly the look I wanted to convey in these houses. The second and third photos are in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home. Very beautiful home and one that was a pleasure to stage.
Hi Maureen, it is a look we all yearn for and hopefully some days, can even achieve on a regular basis. The basic need for pampering never goes away does it?
Hi Cathy, I have used bath accessories in colours on occasion but find that white always brings you back to thinking of fresh and clean. Thanks for stopping in Cathy.
Wonderful photos and inspiration, Michelle! I'm reading a book about F.L. Wright and his wives, "The Women" by T.C. Boyle. Wright was quite the MAN, and I don't mean it in a very positive way - LOL!
Michelle - It's the subtle, small touches that can sometimes have the most impact on a buyer's psyche. I love your examples here. They really do harken back to a European, boutique hotel bathroom that we all love. Tres chic!
Hi Julia, now you have piqued my interest in reading that book! I don't know much about F.L.Wright except for his work.
Hi Sally, I really try to give buyers something to remember a house by. Sometimes buyers are looking at 7 or 8 houses in day. These vignettes help buyers remember one house over another as you say with a simple and evocative look that hopefully sticks in their mind.
Michelle--Just a few simple, well-placed accessories and voila. Very nice and great pictures.