Staging Tips to position your home in its best light!
What you can do to prepare your house for Sale.
First impressions are vital to selling your home for the best price and least inconvienence in this competitive market.
It begins with curb appeal.
Tidy your front, remove weeds, dead foliage, trim bushes and hedges, pick up stray garbage, and toys if in the area. Make repairs as necessary (gutters, downspouts, sweep, paint wood trims and powerwash if necessary). Buy a new doormat, be certain the doorbell works, if you have one.
Inside we gooooo
Collect your Clutter.
Put away your Photos.
Take down Trophies.
Tuck away the tchotchkes.
Minimize momentos.
Use the "keep" and "store" method and go room by room. Keep will be used for staging, store needs to leave the house and go into storage. Less is more. Remove unnecessary furniture.
You want buyers to feel connected to your home and want to live there. Buyers 'notice' the room from each doorway. If you're staging a bedroom, after you remove then move things around, go back to the doorway to see it how a potential buyer will first notice it, remember, every first impression is critical to setting your home apart from the rest.
Dont leave tables empty after you remove family photos, group a handful (that means 3) of items together on your table(s) ie: candlestick, lamp, book.
Clean! Clean! Clean! Curtains, window treatments can accumulate a lot of dirt and dust, clean them. Window sills, tracks and YES, you guessed it, the glass should all be clean. Buyer look to see how a home for sale is maintained, you want them to see it as a pristine, well-cared for home.
Photos, momentos, trophies and such are all 'personal' and immediately distract the buyer to looking at them instead of seeing their future Home. Their loss, Your loss!
PERCEPTION! You're selling your space, show it off! Less on the walls reveal big walls. Less furniture= larger room!
Staged homes sell for almost 7% higher than non=staged homes and in half the time!
