Staging
Kosmos & Co. offers home staging, home styling and redesign services
Home Staging
If you’re looking to sell your home and get top dollar for it - staging the property can help you do it.
So, what exactly does it involve?
Simply put, staging means visually preparing the home for a potential buyer, “setting the stage” if you will. It involves redecorating, rearranging furniture, cleaning, and other aesthetic strategies to present the home in its best possible light. The goal is to make the home as appealing as possible to the most potential buyers. At Kosmos & Co., they do just that.
Benefits of Home Staging
Easier for potential buyers to envision themselves in the home
It provides a clean palette. Minus all the clutter, personal photographs and other items that might turn off a buyer or make it hard to imagine themselves living in the property. According to a study from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR), 77 percent of buyers say it’s easier to visualize a staged property as a future home.
Makes the home look “move-in ready”.
This means buyers see it as not needing a lot of repair or work before they move in. Most buyers are looking for a move-in ready home. Staging gives that impression. This gives the home an advantage over unstaged properties.
Easier to market
Staging a home makes it much easier to market. It looks better in photos which can play a big role in today’s home-shopping process. It’s also much more eye-catching when shared on social media, flyers and displayed in other marketing mediums.
10 Reasons to Stage Your Property Before You Put It On The Market
- Buyers will likely have an unforgettable, positive first impression
- Buyers will imagine themselves living in the property
- Staging usually evokes an emotional connection to the property
- Your home will appear well-maintained, clean and clutter-free
- Staging makes a home look larger
- Staging ensures every room in the home has a function
- Staging makes your home seem move-in-ready
- Staging gives your property an advantage over non-staged homes
- Staging justifies a higher asking price
- Staged homes get first pick on real estate websites
Kinds of Staging Offered
Partial/Occupied Stages
A good percentage of the homes Kosmos stages are already occupied. This means they flex their home presentation muscles in order to showcase most of your existing furniture and belongings in their best light. They often tweak the existing presentation, adding or removing items (furniture, decor, and other accessories) to create a finished product that will appeal to a wide variety of buyers but also keeping in mind that a specific property in a specific neighborhood requires some specific ‘lifestyle marketing’ to appeal to that buyer demographic.
Vacant Stages
When a property is vacant, as is the case with many new home builds, they bring in full or partial inventory rentals (furniture, accessories, artwork). A vacant home stage may also be the case when the homeowners have vacated the home while it is still on the market, leaving it completely empty. With vacant staging, furniture rental is required. For a larger home with multiple bedrooms it may only be the main living quarters of the home and a main bedroom and bathroom. As with partial/occupied stages we style and design on trend with an aesthetic free of personal preference and in a style that suits the property and the potential buyer and neighborhood.
Our Work Processes Made Easy
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Consultation
We will discuss the scope of your project via phone, zoom or in have an in person site visit
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Planning
We will plan and share with you the timeline of the project in terms of dates, times, hours and any other details so you know exactly what to expect
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Launch
This is the stage where your listing is ready to go live on the market and attracts the most amount of qualified buyers or where you step into and enjoy your amazing new living space
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Quotation
Based on our findings during the discovery consultation we will provide you with a quote for the work to be done
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Implementation
This is the action step where we visit your space and carry out either the design and styling of your home or the staging of your property including all photography and/or video is taken
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What People Are Saying
Joanna and her team’s staging services exceeded our expectations by suggesting and adding to the existing palette of colors and creating spaces for the imagination.The team created a vision that immediately attracted the buyer’s interest and that you could see professionally displayed in ‘Western Living’ magazine.
Joanna is extremely creative and her out-of- the-box thinking when staging our condo for sale really made a difference in the sale of our place. We loved it so much we almost didn’t want to move!
We loved how collaborative Joanna and her team were when decorating our new place. They possess great listening skills, an extraordinary eye for detail, and an obvious passion for what they do. While their vision and ideas for spaces are often immediate and specific, they understand the importance of working together with clients to make sure their personality and aesthetic is reflected in the space.