UN-COMPLICATING THE PROCESS
10 Tips To Stage Your Home
And Wow Your Buyers
Getting ready to sell your home in Monmouth County? Before you start showing your home to buyers, take time to give your home some love – even the simplest home staging and sprucing can be the difference between a buyer that walks away and a buyer that’s impressed. These DIY staging tips can really make your home stand out from the crowd.
10 TIPS TO STAGE YOUR HOME
AND WOW YOUR BUYERS
The Exterior
The outside of your home is just as important as the inside. Spend some time giving your home’s exterior some love to create a sense of welcoming – so that your buyers are impressed before they even leave the car!
Before a buyer will set foot inside, they have to be impressed by the exterior of your home. So spend some time making your home welcoming and attractive. Powerwash your siding and driveway, mow the lawn, weed or prune the garden, or plant some bright flowers. Wash your windows, replace old house numbers, or replace a tired mailbox.
An extension of your curb appeal is your porch. Tidy up any furniture, buy a new welcome mat, add some potted flowers, and replace your doorknob. Add a tasteful wreath to your door and leave your porch light on in the evenings, especially if you will be showing at night.
Interior Decor
Now that you’ve created curb appeal and tackled the basics, it’s time to start looking for ways to impress your buyers and make your home stand apart from the crowd.
Your home might have a certain style that you find tasteful – but not all home buyers have the same tastes in decor. Neutral and simple are always best. Repaint any bold or bright colored walls with neutral colors. Remove any personal decor and replace with tasteful yet neutral art and centerpieces. You want to create the sense of a home that’s lived in but not yours, as the idea is to allow buyers to imagine their own personalizations in your home.
Placement of furniture can change the whole feel of a room. Your furniture should not overcrowd the room or leave it feeling too open. Floating the furniture away from the walls can actually make rooms feel larger and create a cozy, conversational feel.
The Final Details
Now’s the fun part – the detailed staging and decorating that adds that “wow” factor, that sparkle, that little bit of something special. Just be sure to keep it simple!
Make your home warm and welcoming by increasing the lighting – both natural and artificial – throughout your home. Open windows if the weather is nice, or at least pull back the drapes to let in as much natural light as possible. Increase the wattage of the bulbs in your lamps and fixtures, and aim for three types of lighting in every room – ambient (overhead), task (reading or under-cabinet lights), and accent (table or floor lamps).
Your decor might be neutral, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Bring in bright splashes of color in the form of potted plants, clipped flowers, or fall branches. This can help increase the sense of warmth and welcoming throughout the home.
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The outside of your home is just as important as the inside. Spend some time giving your home’s exterior some love to create a sense of welcoming – so that your buyers are impressed before they even leave the car!
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