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homebuyers, which means shifting the mindset from decorating to staging is a crucial step for any homeowner who is preparing to sell their home.
“When you live in a home, it’s about likes, personal tastes and making it functional for your family and your situation,� said Trish Van Vliet owner of Stylish Staging in Lawrence. “Staging is about showing off the features of the home and making it neutral enough that anyone in your market demographic would find the home appealing.� Neglecting to properly stage a home can quickly eliminate potential
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AUGUST 22, 2014 Staging a home proper ly can help it sell quickl y in Lawrence LIZ WESLANDER Hometown Lawrence
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Decorating a home for everyday living and staging a house for sale are two very different things.
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it cuts down on the said that it is sometim possibility of odors. If es the hard for homeowners home is dirty and they to see past the way they can’t get past the odor, live a potential buyer will leave.� and the things they love to make changes that best A third component of highlight the actual space strong staging is adequate of the home. Professio nal lighting in the home. home stagers not only Van Vliet suggests opening help provide a critical eye, blinds and drapery or they also keep up with the even taking down heavy latest colors, finishes and drapery to let in as much hardware that are popular warm, natural light as with homebuyers. possible. If there are not a “Sometimes people get lot of windows in a room stuck on what appeals look for alternative lights to them personally,� said sources should be added. VanVliet. “A professio nal “Light makes it feel better stager can see things with - you don’t want people new eyes. We try to make feeling like a mole in the it look like a model home house,� said Van Vliet. or new home.� Although homeowners Liz Weslander writes about can certainly stage their the Lawrence real estate own homes as they market. Contact her at prepare to sell, VanVliet lizweslander@hotmail.com.
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“You’re trying to sell the house not the stuff,� said Van Vliet. “Buyers need to be able to see themselv es in the home. If the house is filled with stuff and the walls are lined with pictures, that’s hard to do. Only about 10 percent of the population has the eye or the ability to see past that kind of stuff.� Van Vliet said that the first and most crucial step in staging is to create more space in the home by getting rid of clutter and removing distractin g
Properly staging a home to remove clutter and personal items can help sell the home more quickly. items. This makes it easier home. to highlight the home’s “Windows, walls, carpets feature both in person and – any hard surface, really, the photos used to market should be cleaned,� said the home. Van Vliet. “Cleanliness The second step is to gives the impression of thoroughly clean the a well-kept home, plus
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Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback’s reelection campaign began touting new economic figures this week that show the Kansas economy picked up steam in the fourth quarter of 2013 and outThis is good news performed most for Kansans and other states in further evidence the region, as well as the na- that our efforts to tion as a whole. The U.S. Bu- grow the economy reau of Eco- are succeeding.� nomic Analysis, a division of the — Gov. Sam Brownback Commerce Department, released the data Wednesday, detailing for the first time Gross Domestic Product figures by state on a quarterly basis. Previously, the bureau has only reported annual state-level data.
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A LARGE PORTRAIT OF MARILYN MONROE, above, glances over her shoulder as Larry Pacheco, of Kansas City, Kan., leaves the dorm room of his friend, Mariza Hernandez, while helping her move into Hashinger Hall on Daisy Hill on Thursday when Kansas University students began to occupy their dorms. RIGHT: An Eeyore doll belonging to Columbia, Mo., freshman Daisy Crane is pushed in a cart by Wichita junior Garrett Ness to McCollum Hall. The department of student housing had over 400 volunteers assisting Thursday. TOP: Traffic signs on construction fencing direct traffic around Daisy Hill. See the audio slideshow at LJWorld.com/movein2014.
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ETHAN HRABE, of the Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St., helps Nacho cool off Thursday.
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