Home Staging An Occupied Los Angeles Cottage in Silverlake
October 25, 2009
We had great success staging this 1920’s cottage in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles.
The home owners received multiple offers over listing price during the first week the home was on the market.
Occupied home staging can sometimes be a little tricky.
The home stager has often has to use the home owners’ existing furniture and take into account the lifestyle of all the occupants. In this particular case, the home owners’ have 2 active teenage sons and a dog.
Silverlake Living Room Before Home Staging
Silverlake Living Room After Home Staging
I did a home staging consultation for the home owners about a month before the house was scheduled to be listed on the MLS.
As part of the Occupied Home Staging Consultation I gave the home owners the following information:
- Furniture and personal items to be removed
- Areas to be de-cluttered
- A new furniture layout plan
- Recommended paint colors
- Recommended a Los Angeles moving & storage company, Northstar Moving, that could store their excess furniture and personal items until the house was sold. Northstar will also be moving their furniture once escrow closes.
- Discussed items that needed to be repaired
- Recommended some cost effective ways to update the kitchen and make it more appealing
Here are before and after pictures of the kitchen update:
Cottage kitchen before home staging
Cottage Kitchen After Home Staging Updates
Cottage kitchen before home staging
Cottage Kitchen After Home Staging Updates
Besides decluttering, notice the new cabinet hardware, new paint, new tile countertop and open shelf above the sink (the cabinet doors were removed to create the shelf).
The home owners were a dream to work with. They took all the information in the comprehensive home staging consultation and ran with it. They completed all the work themselves on time and within their budget. Moving Mountains Design provided artwork and accessories and I photographed the house a few days before listing on the MLS. We emailed the photos to the home owner and the listing agent (who did a fantastic job, by the way) the photos for use in the MLS listing, on-line marketing and print brochures.
Dining Room Before Home Staging
Cottage Dining Room After Home Staging
For more information about our Comprehensive Home Staging Consultation or Occupied Home Staging please call Michelle Minch (626)441-8975 or contact us via email
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