From rental sofas to rental dining room sets to rental bedroom furniture, home staging covers it all. Neutral colors and quality furniture in your home help make it easy for buyers to see themselves living comfortably in your home. And if they feel comfortable in it, they’re more likely to buy it.

Don’t think you could pick out the right rental furniture for home staging? No problem. Our home staging professionals can help you pick out the rental furniture that will make your home shine.

Home staging is affordable and easy. Some real estate agents and experts recommend updating a home’s look and style by improving the furniture, draperies and rugs, but many people assume they mean you should go out and buy these things. That can add up fast, costing you thousands of dollars. With furniture for hire, you rent monthly and do not have to worry about what you’ll do with the furniture once your home sells. Executive Furniture Rentals moves in the furniture and also moves it out.

So if you’re selling your home in Toronto, home staging may be a great bet. Contact us or stop by our showroom to find out more about how our rental furniture can make your home outstanding on the market. Also, feel free to take a look at our home staging photo gallery to see some examples of what can be done.

For the stationary, sitting in front of the computer and searching on marketplaces such as Kijiji, Craigslist or eBay, may be a start to find out what is available at any given time by people wanting to re-sell their personal property.  Consignment stores can be fun.  These are, retail stores dedicated to have individual’s products put in a showroom, for a consignment fee, so the public can visit.  You’ll be amazed at some of the treasures (and junk!) that you will see.  Sometimes newspapers and even websites announce weekly bargains that retail stores are having.  My favourite, of course, is visiting reputable furniture rental companies who have structured clearance centres.  If they are legitimate clearance stores, they truly will have their furnishings below original wholesale price.

All products like sofas, living room sets, mattresses, dining room sets, kitchen sets, bedroom sets and so much more have been previously rented to executives who have temporarily been relocated, used for home staging (to sell homes).  In addition, office furniture, such as filing cabinets, desks, office chairs, workstations, screens, worktables, etc. have come back from lease, tradeshows or simply became excess inventory.  I suggest you visit and actually see the furniture first hand.  Ask if there are any monthly discount coupons.  If you like to bargain, make the sales person sweat a bit (hey, it’s used furniture!!) but don’t be unreasonable or rude.  Remember, a good deal is only good if both parties walk away satisfied (My Dad always said that!).

I came across an interesting quote the other day, and I think it aptly applies to bargain hunting.  It read “Perception is reality….only to the ignorant.”  If you are truly looking for something at a good price, research the product and who you are buying it from.  Perhaps ask for references.  Do they stand behind the product or simply say, It’s used.  You get what you paid for”.  False expectation should never be sold….by anyone!

So, need to find the perfect piece of furniture for your basement, or furnish a complete office with furniture that has been depreciated?  No problem.  Find a reputable furniture rental company and enjoy the hunt! Contact us for more information about furniture rental.

So what makes home stagers good? Well, like all professions, the “good ones” are locked in the 20/80 rule. Twenty per cent of all home stagers are doing 80% of all the business. It is not too dissimilar to what is experienced by the real estate industry. Like real estate, the top home stagers are entrepreneurial, professional, detail-oriented and have an instinctive feeling of what is best for the client and their main objective – to sell his/her property!

Although from the outside home staging may seem easy to do….like just taking a 3-day course and off you go! But that only takes you to the 5-yard line. It prepares potential home stagers with the tools to become a successful professional. Enhancing one’s education with additional learning modules and experience greatly helps, learning to be resourceful takes any home stager to a new level.

Aside from window coverings, paint and accessories, furniture rental for home staging can be essential to the look required. Everything from living to dining to bedroom furnishings are available to transform a home in 48 hours.

Honestly, I have seen homes sit on the market for 4 months, yet, after home staging with furniture rentals, it sold in one weekend!!

What I don’t understand is that some home sellers are prepared to pay up to 5%  in commission, yet balk at an introductory consultation with a home stager for around $250. Furthermore, I have seen home sellers pay as low as .002% of the selling price to have a home sell quickly with home staging. That’s a lot of zeros in the opposite direction. It doesn’t result to much money, yet, it works!

As home staging further progresses as a marketing tool, I foresee national or international standards created for home stagers, again to be compared to the real estate industry or design community who have created licensing qualifications for its  members. This would even instill greater confidence to clients and more importantly, it will just make better home stagers.

I hope in the future to further illustrate how furniture rental in Toronto (Ontario) has transformed itself very quickly to the demand of home staging professionals. In fact, it has made furniture rental companies better from a product offering and service perspective.

Moral to the Blog: Hire a home stager and sell that home now!