Home Staging Blog

Staging for Different Buyer Personas: Tailoring Your Approach for Maximum Impact

To maximize the impact of your home staging efforts, it’s crucial to tailor your approach to cater to different buyer personas this can include: unique preferences, lifestyles, and priorities. Before our team at Chicagoland Home staging ever starts staging your home, we take the time to define different the types of buyer personas we should…
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How to Stage a Vacant Home: Why Empty Rooms Can Hurt Your Sale and What to Do About It

When it comes to selling a home, staging plays a crucial role in attracting potential buyers and securing a sale. However, staging a vacant home can present unique challenges. Empty rooms make a property feel cold and uninviting, potentially deterring buyers from putting in an offer. In fact, a vacant property can hurt the sale,…
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An Oak Brook Estate Gets a Staging Facelift

Staging a home is a powerful tool that can transform even the most outdated and lackluster properties into desirable living spaces. An excellent example of the impact staging can have is the incredible transformation of 76 Baybrook, a dated estate property located in Oak Brook, IL. Despite its outdated features, including worn-out wallpaper, and a…
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The Benefits of Professional Home Staging: Real Estate Agents and Sellers Weigh In

When it comes to selling a home, the importance of staging cannot be overstated. A well-staged home can help potential buyers envision themselves living in the space, understand the layout and potential, and create an emotional connection to the property. While some homeowners may be hesitant to invest in professional home staging, real estate agents…
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The Power of Color in Vacant Staging: How to Create a Cohesive Look

Vacant home staging is an essential aspect of the home selling process particularly in the Chicagoland area. This service that our team provides helps potential buyers envision themselves living in the space, as well as, helps them understand the property’s layout and potential. Our vacant home staging process develops an emotional connection between the buyer…
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5 Ways to Create a Luxe Look for Less

Here at Chicagoland Home Staging, our responsibility is to create a luxurious space that will fit the lifestyle of the home buyer, while still being budget-friendly for our clients, the home seller. There is a delicate balance to showcasing a luxe look for less, here are five ways to add some luxury to your everyday…
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5 Home Staging Questions Real Estate Agents Always Ask

Home staging has become an essential part of the real estate process, as it can help to sell a property more quickly and for a higher price. Real estate agents are at the forefront of the home selling process and are often the ones who recommend staging to their clients, but many times, have questions…
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Must-Do Home Staging Tips from Our Experts

At Chicagoland Home Staging we view home staging as the art of preparing a property for sale by highlighting its best features and create a lifestyle that will appeal to potential buyers. Whether you’re selling a small apartment or a luxurious mansion, home staging can make a huge difference in how quickly you sell and…
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How to Stage a Small Space for Big Impact

At Chicagoland Home Staging we come across all different properties the can benefit from home staging. Every property we prepare for sale has a unique set of circumstances including this property we staged on Grove Avenue in Western Springs. This was a new construction property complete with 6-bedrooms and 5.5-baths has 3-levels of custom finishes…
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5 Mistakes That Make Your Home Look Cluttered

Before putting a property on the market, oftentimes Chicagoland home staging will recommend decluttering the home, removing nearly 80-percent of a home seller’s belongings to ensure a clean, organized space prior to listing. Our team explains to sellers it’s important to start packing up belongings not needed or in-use while the home is on the…
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Best of 2022 Home Staging Tips from Chicagoland Home Staging

As we countdown to a new year, our team here at Chicagoland Home Staging wanted to share some of our best home staging tips when preparing a property for sale. We take pride in producing valuable content to help real estate agents and home sellers understand how to get the maximum return on their investment…
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3 Home Staging Tips for a Contemporary Home

When it comes time to stage a contemporary home, this style evolves based on the trends that are here and now. This unique home staging style can borrow from several periods, which makes it appear upscale, timeless and classy. Today’s contemporary design relies on neutral colors, simplicity, and sleekness. Materials like metal and glass are…
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Why Work With Chicagoland Home Staging

Home staging is an invaluable marketing tool that can help a client’s home stand out amongst the competition. You don’t have to depend on luck or the market to sell a house. Our staged homes in the Chicago western suburbs sell faster and for more money than non-staged homes.  Chicagoland Home Staging is a full-service real estate staging business…
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Does The Buyers Eye Stop at Home Selling Features?

Today’s home buyers have a hefty wish list when it comes to choosing their next place to live. Most are looking for outdoor space, an energy efficient updated kitchen and bath, a quiet place to work, take care of the kids and live at home– without feeling confided to the space.  It’s our job at…
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Avoid Distracting Home Buyers This Holiday Season

It’s that time of year again, when your neighborhood, maybe even your home turns into a festive display of holiday décor, but there is a fine line between tasteful and cluttered. Greeting buyers to a home for sale covered in holiday decor with a life-size bloody Frankenstein, bats flying above and a dreary cemetery in…
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What are you selling anyway? This is prime real estate.

When it comes to kitchens, sellers are often confused when we tell them to take down objects that are over the cabinets. Usually they consist of  fake plants, bits of pottery, or collections – all of which are typically covered in layers of dust. Even when they are clean, exceptionally interesting or beautiful they often…
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Top 5 Reasons to Use a Stager in the Chicagoland Area

Staging gives a property a competitive advantage.  When you use a stager in Naperville, Hinsdale and indeed anywhere in Chicago’s Western Suburbs there are 5 key reasons everyone wins when there’s a home stager on the team prior to listing the property. 1. Let The Stager Be The “Bad Cop” The relationship between Realtor and…
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How to Streamline a Property When Selling

When it comes time to sell a property, it’s important to plan ahead and take the time you need to make smart decisions that will leave you feeling less stressed on the market. A major part of that decision making is “what items will stay and what items will go in the home” to create…
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