Stage Your Home

Trying to sell your home? No luck so far? Staging your place for photos and for open houses is the best way to get bids. How do you stage your home? Many realtors offer staging services, but you can also easily do it your self. Keep in mind, staging is easier if you aren’t living in it, but can still be done.

How to Stage your Home

De-Clutter

Store away everything that clutters your space. Potential home buyers want to see open spaces. Do not throw anything away, but store it with a Self Storage Company such as North Shore Mini Storage. Keep only the big items, couches, tables, appliances.

Curb Appeal

First impressions are everything. Power wash the driveway, gutters, house siding. Mow the lawn and add some outdoor plants. You want people driving by to be able to imagine themselves living there. No one wants to live in “that” house on the block.

Party Stage

You could try staging your house for open viewing by pretending to set it up for a big dinner party. Get out the wine glasses and fancy napkins, to help potential buyers imagine themselves throwing a party.

Hide Memories

Remove personal photos and other memories that do not help the value of your house. Remove these personal effects, it allows people to imagine their own personal items inside the house. Clearing the living space of these items helps home buyers see the home as their home.

Clean

Shouldn’t need to be said, but clean the home. Make sure every nook and cranny is dusted and cleaned. Nothing turns off potential buyers like a dirty home.

That’s it! We hope that this guide will help you in your home selling efforts. Looking to store some items when staging? Call us today for great rates on self storage units.

sweda

Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

sara ~

01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.