Adding Some Life to a Home: Montreal Home Staging Before and After Pictures

I’ve got some Montreal home staging before and after pictures for you here.  These come from a Montreal West Island home staging project we recently did.  The home sold after 6 weeks on the market, which was great considering it was in the $500,000+ range where homes generally take longer to sell. 

It was another real estate agent’s listing, but I was happy to stage it because the homeowner was the mother of my very first client as a Montreal home stager. 

The home was essentially vacant, as the homeowner spent very little time there.  It needed a bit of PERSONALITY and LIFE.

I like to give each bedroom in a home a personality of its own.  I think it helps potential buyers remember them: “Remember the one with the funky green art on the wall?”  

With the inundation of information in everyone’s life, anything we can do to help potential buyers differentiate our listing/home from everything else they see has gotta help, no? 

More to come later on the main living spaces…

In the meantime, feel free to visit my web-site for some more home staging Montreal before and after pictures.

Bed and window

Hello? Anyone home?

Master Bedroom

A little more panache.

Ensuite bathroom

Completely renovated but...

Ensuite bathroom

A few finishing touches and voila!

Bedroom with bed and window

A little bland...

Bedroom with bed and window

Still soft but pulled together.

Bedroom with bed and window

Big room with little personality.

Bedroom with bed and window

A bit of colour brings this room to life.

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Tanya Nouwens, June 17th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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Quick Fix for a Stuffed Dining Room

We run into a lot of properties in Montreal’s West Island real estate market that have more furniture than they can handle. This was one of them.  Among other rooms we tackled in our Montreal home staging of this property, the dining room was over-stuffed and didn’t show off all of the available space.

Here’s a home staging tip: Remove the top half of a buffet/hutch, i.e., the hutch portion.  This presents a more contemporary look, cleaner lines, less clutter and, most importantly, more space!

Before

After

We also removed the dated wallpaper throughout the home and applied a fresh coat of paint.  Under the salesmanship of a great real estate agent (no I’m not bragging – this wasn’t my listing!), the house sold within a couple of weeks. 

Yup, space is real estate…and a more contemporary look makes for better showings.

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Tanya Nouwens, May 6th 2010 | Tags: , , , , ,
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Montreal Home Staging: The Proof is in the Pudding

The proof is in the pudding: home staging is way more than smoke and mirrors.  In this case, it helped an agent in my office sell a vacant Montreal condo that she had had on the market for a year. A year! 

Our vision: to make the condo appeal to a young and hip clientele.  Being located within walking distance of two of Montreal’s major universities, this was prime Montreal real estate for students and/or students’ parents looking to make an investment while at university. 

Once staged by Ready, Set…Sold! Inc., a Montreal home staging company that I started three years ago (before I got my real estate license), it sold with multiple offers within two weeks.  No price change, no difference in marketing…with one big exception: great photos for the MLS listing.

Before: Nice but…

Picture of Living Area Before Staging

After: Young and hip, just like the most likely buyer for this condo.

After Shot of Living Space

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Tanya Nouwens, May 3rd 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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I Must Be Losing It

I’m in the middle of a great Montreal home staging job.  Yesterday was a really big day of loading and unloading artwork, lighting, bedding, pillows, accessories, etc.  You know, the stuff we use to make a home look and feel warm, inviting, comfortable and full of life.  I hope to finish the job today. 

This morning at breakfast, my husband asks, “So was the homeowner there all day while you were working?” 

“Yes.”  He knows I don’t like this because home staging always looks terrible before it looks great…like any work in progress.

“Oh. Was she bugging you?” he asks.

“Well, sort of.  I mean, she kept to herself and let me do my thing.  But…her being there meant I couldn’t talk to myself while I worked.”

And I meant it.

I must be losing it.

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Tanya Nouwens, April 28th 2010 | Tags: , , ,
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