If you’re preparing to sell your home, presentation can be just as important as pricing. The RE/MAX Home Staging Guide is a practical resource designed to help sellers understand how staging can transform a property, attract more buyers, and potentially increase the final sale price.
What is the RE/MAX Home Staging Guide?
The Guide explains the fundamentals of staging a home for sale in a clear, accessible way. It goes beyond simple decorating advice and focuses on strategic presentation; how to position your home so buyers can emotionally connect with it and envision themselves living there.
It breaks down key staging principles such as decluttering, depersonalizing, and highlighting a home’s best features through layout, lighting, and simple design updates. The guide also emphasizes how staging supports stronger listing photos and first impressions, which are critical in today’s online-driven real estate market.
How to use the Guide?
The Guide is meant to be both educational and actionable. As a seller, you can use it as a step-by-step checklist when preparing your home.
Key ways to use it include:
- As a pre-listing checklist to identify what needs to be cleaned, removed, or updated
- As a room-by-room planning tool to prioritize high-impact spaces like living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms
- As a decision-making resource when deciding whether to invest in small upgrades, furniture rearrangement, or professional staging
- As a budget guide, helping homeowners focus on low-cost improvements that deliver strong visual impact
At its core, the RE/MAX Home Staging Guide reinforces a simple but powerful idea: buyers don’t just purchase a house; they respond to how it feels. A well-staged home creates emotional connection, improves online appeal, and helps buyers see the space as their future home.
By following the guide’s principles, as a seller, you can present a clean, inviting, and well-defined space that stands out in a competitive market and ultimately supports a faster, more successful sale.
Let’s take a look!
Explore RE/MAX’s Home Staging Guide
To begin, the interactive Guide provides some good arguments for home staging. These include:
- Faster sale, higher price
- Swipe right
- Picture it!
- Clean & clutter free
Here’s a shortcut to the Guide. Click the + to get a more in-depth explanation of each reason.
Basic Staging 101
This Guide is packed full of great information. In this section, you’ll get a list of mistakes to avoid, a step-by-step list of items to pack away, and an interactive Home Staging Checklist with 10 things that will improve the home viewing experience for potential buyers.
Room-By-Room Tips
Now, we know lots of guides end with the checklist. But this one does not! In fact, it gets even more specific, offering you a room-by-room guide to staging your home.
This section walks you room-by-room, providing staging essentials tips specific to that room, quick enhancements you can make, plus pro tips.
It even covers the garage, laundry room, basement and outdoors.
Challenges
Life doesn’t stop when you’re getting your home ready to sell. With that in mind, The Home Staging Guide includes tips to help you overcome common challenges: maintaining your home, daily cleanliness, life with kids and their “stuff”, and pets.
Virtual Staging
Home staging has come a long way over the years. Previously, a vacant home would be that: vacant. But with today’s technology, a vacant home can be filled with possibilities…digitally.
Check out the Home Staging Guide to learn all about Virtual Staging as well as a Styling Checklist.
Curious if your home would benefit from home staging?
We can help with that!
Every home is different. We look at your goals and timing.
Think of home staging as a spectrum; there’s a lot in between doing nothing and fully staging an empty home.
We’ve found that a good balance is working with some items that you have, helping you declutter, and then bringing a few staging items into the home to tie things together.
We’re here to help take home staging stress away from you.
We want to set your home up to appeal to buyers and set you up for success.
Talk to us about whether you need to stage your home professionally or focus on decluttering yourself.
