SOURCE: homesandgardens.com
Ready to sell your home? Don’t skip this essential step.
Home staging can help you sell your home faster and for more money. In this post, we’ll dive into why home staging is important and how to get started.
1. Declutter Your Home : Clutter is distracting for buyers – their eyes will be drawn to your belongings and not the rooms. The rooms themselves will look smaller and untidy if cluttered, too.
2. Invest In Storage – But Don’t Overload It : When staging a house, you want buyers to think your home can cope with their belongings because your storage is ample, not under pressure.
3. Clean, Clean, Clean : A clean, aired home will feel fresh and welcoming – this will help buyers envisage themselves living in your home.
4. Tackle Home Staging Must-Do DIY Jobs : Make a list as you assess what needs doing to stage your house: fix that dripping faucet, mend the guttering, fill holes and cracks in walls, repair that door… anything that looks broken or doesn’t work can put buyers off.
5. Refresh Rooms With Light Reflecting Colors : ‘A fresh coat of paint makes a huge amount of difference. It brightens a room, it can make it look bigger and, it gives an overall appearance of a well-kept home,’ advises Anne Carr of Los Angeles-based Anne Carr Design.
6. Renovate Your Kitchen And Bathroom : This may not mean remodeling – painting kitchen cabinets can make a world of difference.
7. Rework Room Layouts : This is particularly important when staging a living room – especially if it is an open-plan room that doubles up as a kitchen diner, in which case you may need to investigate new living room layout ideas.
8. Remember Accessories When Staging A House : ‘Making small changes to a room can often have a big impact on its ambiance. I would recommend always replacing bed linen and towels with new crisp white replacements,’ advises Alex Willcocks. ‘The same rule applies to bath and hand towels. Scented oil diffusers and candles are always a good idea to create a warm welcoming environment.’
9. Stage A House For Comfort : ‘Comfort is much more important because people are staying in their homes for long periods of time,’ says Anne Carr. ‘We are getting requests for large comfortable sectionals for long Netflix watching with the entire family.
10. Add Pops Of Color For Personality : The psychology of color says that the majority of people gravitate towards things that are blue.
11. Make A Good First Impression By Staging Your Front Yard : buyer’s decision making process doesn’t start once they are in the property, it started 100 meters before that.
12. Use Real Plants In Home Staging : It feels less like a hotel to buyers and more like a place they can see themselves living.
13. Don’t Forget To Stage The Back Yard : Treat it as an extra room and home stage it accordingly.
14. What Not To Use In Home Staging : De-personalizing is a must. Family portraits should be put away for now and those on the wall replaced with more neutral art.
15. Stage A House To Suit Its Age And Style : Staging an older home is the same as staging a modern one except that any home will look best if the interior complements the home’s age, architecture and style. Having a cohesive look that runs throughout an entire home can make it look bigger, too.
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