How Self Storage Can be a Home Stagers’ Secret Weapon

Did you know that 20% of all buying agents say that home staging increases the value by 1%-5%? 🤯

Further, 29% of buyers view a staged home as essential to their home-buying journey.

In a growing residential market like Boston, home staging is a very lucrative business, especially for professionals with an interior design background. However, staging homes requires the accumulation, management, and storage of home items like furniture, artwork, and decor. These items take up a lot of space and can be challenging to keep organized, especially if you are storing them at your home.

If you’re considering becoming a home stager or your home staging business is growing, self-storage is your secret weapon. With self-storage, you can organize, store, and protect the furniture and accessories you need for staging homes.

Self-storage works as a mini-warehouse space for home stagers. You can itemize, organize, and manage your home staging items in one place. Self-storage units also come in a variety of sizes to house both your large furniture like beds and couches and smaller accessories like lamps and bedding.

Five Benefits Of Self-Storage For Home Stagers

Here are just some of the benefits of self-storage for home stagers:

1. Keep Your Inventory Organized

Home staging requires a lot of inventory. Furniture must fit in the space, match the decor, and appeal to the taste of buyers. Home stagers also work with a lot of home accessories, including seasonal and holiday items.

With so much to keep track of, organization can be challenging. Self-storage gives you a dedicated space to track and organize your staging items. Organization allows you to categorize items by style (modern, traditional, coastal, etc.), rotate inventory based on trends and the specific style and size of the property, and easily locate desired pieces.

2. Declutter Available Homes For Staging

Home staging sometimes requires moving the seller’s furniture and accessories out and moving staging items in. Unfortunately, buyers aren’t always ready to have their home staged during the move. Often, these items can detract from the home’s appeal to potential buyers.

A self-storage unit allows you to remove the seller’s items and declutter their homes for staging. Self-storage provides a temporary place to house these items until the seller is ready to move them.

3. Flexibility For All Your Home Staging Needs

The good news is that self storage is scalable.

You can start with a smaller space for minimal staging, like adding a few accessories to warm up the home. As your business grows, you can expand into larger storage spaces for more elaborate projects. Our larger units are even big enough to test staging ideas before moving the items to the space. You may want to start off with a 10 x 10 unit to fit a few pieces of furniture and accessories and gradually build up to a larger 10 x 20 unit to hold a few rooms worth of furniture.

4. Save Money

Self-storage saves home stagers money in a number of ways.

First, by storing your staging items near where you work, you will reduce the costs of transportation. Secondly, self-storage allows you to keep seasonal and occasional-use items, reducing the need to buy or rent new items for each project. Third, Self-storage protects staging items from damage, reducing the cost of repairs and replacements.

Finally, self-storage gives you the space to buy items in bulk. Bulk purchasing leads to long-term savings.

5. Protect Your Staging Furniture And Home Accessories

Reputable self-storage facilities like EZ Storage have robust security. They have on-site managers, security cameras, and alarm systems to protect your items from damage and theft. Plus, our climate-controlled self-storage units are ideal for storing art, antiques, or any other more valuable items you are using for storage.

EZ Storage’s Top Tips For Home Stagers

At EZ Storage, we work with real estate agents, interior decorators, and home stagers to house and protect their staging furniture and decor. Here are some of our top tips for getting the most out of your self-storage unit.

• Choose A Convenient Location: Choose a self-storage facility close to where you frequently work. We have three locations around the city in popular residential areas including Framingham, Natick, and Newton. Staying close to where you most frequently stage homes will help you minimize travel back and forth, reducing costs and logistical headaches.
• Invest In Organizational Tools: With a few organizing accessories, self-storage units can really function as a warehouse. Invest in shelving, clear bins, and garment racks. You’ll stay organized and be able to maximize the vertical space in the unit. Make sure to keep the center space clear or fill it with items that are easily removed so you have an area to work. Another helpful tip is to label everything to streamline the retrieval of items.
• Maintain A Detailed Inventory Of Your Staging Items: A detailed inventory can help you easily track your items. Consider building a spreadsheet or using inventory management software to track your items. Make sure to keep lots of notes, including the style, color, size, and condition of each piece. A tracking system helps you plan and juggle multiple projects. You can track which homes have the deployed items and which items are available. Further, tracking will help you determine what items you still need to invest in or replace to maintain a healthy inventory.

Following these tips, you’ll be able to optimize your self-storage unit to function as a working warehouse for all your staging items.

Home Staging Made Easy With EZ Storage

Self-storage units are your secret weapon for home staging. They’ll help you quickly clear and stage a home, stay organized, and help you grow your business.

For more information about how to use a self-storage unit for home staging, our self-storage experts at EZ Storage are here to help. With three convenient locations in the Boston metro area, including Framingham, Natick, and Newton, EZ Storage is the ideal choice for home stagers. Contact us now to learn which storage unit is right for your home staging needs. We’ll answer all your questions and help stage your success.