Why You Should Rent Furniture to Stage Your Home

Staging creates an emotional reaction

Home staging isn’t about spending a lot of money. Renting furniture helps create an emotional reaction in potential buyers. The right atmosphere entices people when they enter the space. A home is a big purchase, and most buyers need an emotional connection to make an offer. Staging your home properly allows visitors to envision themselves living in and enjoying the space.

Staging your home accentuates the positive

Is it easier to sell a house that’s just been totally remodeled? Probably! But most of us don’t have that extra $100,000 laying around. Instead, staging will get your home looking its absolute best during the time its on the market without the time, cost, or hassles of a renovation.\

You can fill your home with beautiful furniture, stylish accessories, and stunning art and other décor for a fraction of the cost of remodeling. None of this will hide the flaws your home may have, but it will absolutely accentuate all of your home’s strengths and downplay those flaws. And when you work with a local furniture rental business, you get the added benefit of advice on how to use the furniture to place your house in the very best light.

An empty space leaves too much to the imagination

While it’s true that a large, empty room might be a wonderfully empty canvas full of possibilities for someone with a particularly vivid imagination, most of us aren’t like that—especially when we’re in business mode, searching for a new home that’s a great value and the perfect fit. Don’t rely on the imagination of others!

Show them how much possibility a space has by staging it with the perfect set of rental furniture. Renting furniture to create a complete, aesthetically pleasing look will still allow visitors to see other possibilities in a space; in fact, the staging will act like a jumping off point, giving them the context they need to imagine other uses for the space.

Houses that are staged sell faster—sometimes at higher prices

According to the 2016 research report from the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA), homes that were staged prior to going on the market spent 23 days there before selling on average. In contrast, the average on-market time for unstaged homes was 184 days. And while there is no clear research trend that indicates that staging is linked to higher sales prices, some individual sellers attribute their above asking price successes to staging.

The bottom line

If you’re selling your home, make sure it’s ready. Rent stylish furniture to showcase its best features. Staging with beautiful, coordinated furniture gives your home a model-like appearance that attracts buyers. Staged homes make visitors fall in love, increasing the chance of a sale. Ready to stage? Contact our expert stagers to get started.