Home Staging - Curb Appeal - Asheville NC - Going Green With Native Plants




Home Staging starts with Curb Appeal. If you are a Home Stager in a Green Community, consider using Native Plants in your Home Staging Plan.

In most cities, the local County Extension Services have pamphlets to help the home stager learn the advantages of native planting. In a community that is green, this tactic could be good for your home staging business.

Many buyers look for low maintenance yards to address their environmental concerns. Plants grow well and require little care when in their native environment. They require less water and possibly fewer pesticides.

Curb appeal is often addressed with color pops and many native plants show their beauty in showy flowers. Above is a mock orange, great flowers, draws butterflies and hummingbirds to the landscape.

With the growth of suburbs, habitat concerns exist. Many homeowners like to draw wildlife of all kinds. Native planting provide that habitat. Fruits and seeds provide food and cover. The hickory nut tree shown above is great for wildlife that rely on nuts in their diet and provides plenty of green leaf cover.

A Home Stager in a green community can "sell" their home staging plan using native plantings. A Home Seller can have the selling point added to the other selling features of the home.

The community is enhanced as more people use native plants. Preserve our natural heritage in your curb appeal home staging plan.

The Real Estate Home Staging School ™ encourages it's students to have a community focus in their businesses. Students work with a mentor to develop their ethics policy and mission statement. In both cases, we deal specifically with how our actions affect the community. We believe an ethical and community focused home stager has an edge.

Contact: Eileen Wheeler at The Real Estate Home Staging School ™
President, Western North Carolina Chapter RESA
Owner, The Asheville Home Staging Company

or

Leslie Godbold at The Real Estate Home Staging School ™
President, State of NC, RESA
Owner of Asheville Stagers

Selling Your Home? Assist your Agent With Home Staging - Don't Cede Responsibility


Assist your agent in selling your home with Home Staging. If you are currently selling or planning to sell your home, think about what responsibilities you have in the process. Your agent will help you price your home and they will market the property through advertising. But, you are responsible for what the potential buyer sees when they arrive at your home. Will they see the selling features of the home or will they see how you live?

If you think that once you choose an agent and list your home, your responsibility ends, you will likely wait a long time for the sale. If your agent recommends a professional home stager, do it! If you are in the Asheville North Carolina area, contact The Asheville Home Staging Company. Cleaning up and packing away a few things and painting the walls a fresh neutral color does not equal home staging. That work, while essential, does not make your home stand out from the competition. That is the work of your Home Stager. If you like, you can also learn how to stage and do it yourself. Either way, do it!

When your agent stops in to take photographs for the MLS Listing, what will they look like? Will they be a total reflection of you?

If so, rethink what you are presenting.


If your enormous flat screen t.v. is the first thing they notice in the picture, they will miss what you should want them to see, the vaulted ceiling or the double french doors overlooking a great patio. Since 9 of 10 buyers start their search on the internet, the photos placed in your listing are the first impression. They will often be the deciding factor in requesting a walk-through.

When a potential buyer gets to the house, what do they see? Is the yard clean, grass cut, do you have a focal point to draw them in and make them want to keep going. Or, will they see an unkempt yard, overgrown shrubs and think immediately about the work they will have to accomplish to make the exterior appearance acceptable?

When they open the entry door, what do they see? Is the abundance of natural light hidden behind dark heavy drapery instead of being enhanced with reflective window coverings?



If they walk through and must walk around things to get to the destination, you are reducing the impression of square footage, something all buyers want. If you insist on using a king sized bed in a small room, you take away all important square footage.

A professional home stager, assists you in taking your responsibility to heart and acting on those things you always wanted to do, but just never did! They can do that in any number of ways and one of those ways will fit your budget.

First you can ask for a free estimate from most all home stagers. They will visit the home and estimate the work to be done and the cost. It is up to you whether you move forward. If you establish a budget, most home stagers will work with you to maximize that budget. After the estimate You make the decision.

You can also ask for a Home Consultation. If you Google, Home Stagers -City In Which You Live, you can usually find the cost of a Home Consultation on their websites or with a simple phone call. In Asheville NC contact The Asheville Home Staging Company. The home stager will visit your home, walk thru with you and advise you of the elements that need address and suggest the corrections. Usually they are prioritized and you can choose what to do in what order as a way to manage your budget by doing it yourself.

Another option is to learn how to stage. The Real Estate Home Staging School ™ offers homeowners a one day intensive workshops. Take what you learn and start the process the next day!

Whatever option you choose, it is the best decision you could make. Your home has great features that will sell it, they need to the obvious elements when a potential buyer steps through the door.

Eileen Wheeler is the Owner of The Asheville Home Staging Company and Co Founder of
The Real Estate Home Staging School TM