Picture a Des Moines house on the evening we finish staging it, with the primary bed made up and a lamp standing on each nightstand. The dining chairs sit at the table with room to pull one out. Furniture rental staging shows a home as move-in ready when its rooms are set up that completely. At Sell It Well Home Staging, based in Boone, we bring that furniture from our own inventory. If you walked in that night, you could sleep upstairs and pull up a chair at the table without unpacking anything.
Both Seating Rooms Begin With a Rug on the Floor
Stagers put the large rugs down before any seating is carried in, since sliding a rug under a sofa that is already in place is hard. With the rug down, the sofa and chairs are set with their front legs on it. That shared edge pulls the living room pieces into one seating group.
At the dining table, the rug runs wide enough that a chair pulled back to sit still has its back legs on it. A rug cut too short catches the chair legs at its edge, and the table looks squeezed into its corner. When the rug clears the chairs, the dining room shows a table you could seat a family at that same evening.
A Made Bed With a Lamp on Each Side
A bare mattress on a frame shows a buyer the size of the bedroom. Add the sheets, the pillows and a lamp on each nightstand, and the same room photographs as a place to sleep. In a full staging, the beds come with complete bedding and each nightstand gets its lamp, alongside the seating, the coffee and dining tables, area rugs, artwork, mirrors and finishing accessories. Our beds arrive at the house made up. The accessories are in place before we leave the house.
The Rooms Stay Set Until Your Offer Is Accepted
A seller hearing the word rental may picture a bill that keeps running and a second moving day to arrange. Our furniture stays in the house until you've accepted an offer, which usually takes from three weeks up to three months. You take no step to keep it there while the house is on the market.
Once the sale goes under contract, we set a pickup date for our pieces, and your own furniture stays where it is. That removal is part of the service. Our pieces return to our inventory, so you have nothing to store or send back.
A Written Scope Shows What You're Paying For
You see the price of staging your house in a written scope listing the rooms, the length of the stay and the work included. A house you've already moved out of needs more of our furniture than one you still live in, and the scope covers only what the plan calls for. The other inputs are the number of rooms, the pieces you keep and the length of time the staging remains.
Staging usually costs less than the average $10K price reduction. That plan from the walkthrough is yours to keep. Reading it room by room shows you which spaces we would stage.
Pieces Chosen for an Older Home's Original Detail
We choose each piece before delivery, from the house's architecture, its room sizes and its color palette. Many Beaverdale houses went up between 1920 and 1940, and for an older home with original detail like those, we choose clean-lined pieces that leave that detail in view. A newer Des Moines house with tall ceilings gets pieces with more presence.
Plan Each Room of Your Des Moines House With Us
At the walkthrough, we go through the house with you and settle which rooms get furniture and what it takes to make each of them ready for that first evening. The stay and the pickup come with the plan, so the remaining decision is the level of staging. Once we've stood in your rooms, we tell you which of our packages we'd use there, Essential, Deluxe or Premium. Call Sell It Well Home Staging at (515) 238-3795, and we'll plan the rooms of your Des Moines house before the photo date.
