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Do you think you’re ready for your first open house? Before you list your home for sale in Minneapolis, it’s a good idea to take a step back and check with a professional home stager to ensure you get the highest possible bid in a shorter amount of time. Follow these quick tips to get your house ready to that Sunday rush.

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Depending on your situation, you may want to traditionally stage your home, or you may want to virtually stage your home. When you’re preparing to sell, staging may be the best way to go. By choosing a professional staging company, such as Set To Show, experts can help you arrange and update your home in a way that potential buyers can envision themselves living in. Here, our experts will go over the differences between traditional and virtual staging, and which one may be best for you.

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The all-white everything has been a dominant design trend in recent years, and although it will still have its place, people are embracing more colors in their homes. Adding color can still make your space look sophisticated and beautiful while adding warmth and personality to an all-white room. Plus, it won’t be the end of the world if someone spills some red wine on your rich brown rug.

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When selling your home, it can be tempting to prepare your house using a few tips found on your local real estate show. However, overeager homeowners often make some simple mistakes when staging the property that can negatively impact the ability to sell in a timely fashion. When you hire professional home stagers from Set to Show, they can help you avoid some of these common missteps and close on the sale for a better price in record time.

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A staged home spends 90 percent less time on the market than unstaged homes and sells for about 17 percent more than unstaged homes. If you are looking to sell a home, staging is something you should consider based on these statistics alone. But if you have never staged a home before, you may wonder why home staging can help a home to sell faster. Here are a few of the reasons why.

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After a long and cold winter, people are looking for signs of spring at every turn. Warming weather, budding trees, and the first daffodils all mark the slow arrival of spring here in Minnesota. Spring is a time of renewal and excitement, and over the years has shown itself to be a prime season for selling a home. There are other reasons why spring is the busiest home selling and buying season. We see longer days, easier travel, more options for buyers, better prices for sellers, and of course, the return to the outdoors. Getting a house ready to sell in the spring requires more attention to the outside of your home, including the exterior and yard. Here are some tips we have for improving your home’s spring curb appeal after a long winter:

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Home decor trends, much like fashion, are here today and gone tomorrow. Certain classic elements are steadfast, creating the solid foundation for a beautiful and stylish home. And, if you’re planning on selling your home this year, it’s time to look at recent trends, assess what you have in your home, and find ways to move forward with your home decor. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a list of our top 5 trends to ditch this year so you can start fresh and sell your home!

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If you are one of the brave souls looking to sell your home during a Minnesota winter, we commend you. Selling a home is no cake walk as it is, and doing so during our region’s most infamous season adds another challenging layer. All that being said, there are plenty of people who are looking to buy homes this time of year, and they might as well be looking at yours.

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