Home Sellers
Why Staging Your Home is Important in a Home Sale
When you are ready to sell your home, it is important to make sure that it looks its best. You want potential buyers to be excited when they walk through your doors and experience your house at its finest. Home staging is a method of decorating meant to highlight your home’s best features and help buyers imagine moving in and living there. The right staging can help sell your house quickly.
Staging a home has many payoffs, so putting some extra time and effort into staging your home correctly makes sense. Many of the best staging tips do not require spending a lot of money. Here are some staging tips to help sell your home faster and for the most money.
Staging Your Home in the Right Areas
Not all rooms need staging attention. You want to focus your efforts on the rooms that influence a buyer’s decision, which include the living room, master bedroom, and kitchen. Do not worry about rooms that have less influence, including guest bedrooms, children’s bedrooms, and bathrooms.
De-Personalize
One of the main goals of home staging is to help prospective buyers visualize the space as their own. The easiest and fastest way to do this is to create a blank canvas in your rooms. You want to keep the style and charm of the home, but take out any personal touches that may deter the buyer from seeing the home as their own.
To de-personalize your home, start by removing any personal photos and taking down framed photos on walls or shelves. Keep your clothes stored away and out of sight and clear your bathroom of personal items. It is helpful to remove anything overtly religious to keep your home comfortable for everyone who visits it. De-personalizing your home is useful in helping buyers better connect with your home.
Clean and Declutter
Before you put your home on the market, you want to make sure your house is clean and free of clutter. Potential buyers do not want to walk into a dirty or overly cluttered home. You want buyers to feel that you have taken good care of the property and kept the home neat. Now is the time to dust areas that often get overlooked, clean countertops, and organize all closets. It is also important to declutter during the staging process. This will make your home look bigger and more desirable to potential buyers.
Consider renting a storage unit and putting all unnecessary items in there for the time being. This includes clothing, most of your home’s decor, games, photos, and anything you do not use on a daily basis. Buyers will be opening your closets and storage spaces so make sure to clean this out well, as well as rid of as many items as you can. The less clutter you have, the bigger your space will look.
Repairs
While staging your home for buyers, take the time to do any small repairs to make your home look as good as possible. This includes patching any nicks, scratches, holes, or any other impurities that can be noticed. Your home can always use some TLC, especially when you are getting ready to sell. Doing repairs around your home will show buyers that you put effort into maintaining your house.
Let the Light In
Dark rooms do not make a good first impression on buyers. Brighten up your rooms by letting in as much natural light as possible. Open all blinds to add light and make your rooms look bigger. Turn on all inside lights during showings, including lamps and closet lights. This will make your home feel more welcoming and will show off all the light fixtures in the house.
Rearrange Your Furniture
During showings, you want there to be as much open and walkable space as possible. This helps buyers navigate your space safely while also helping them visualize their own furniture in the home. Put any extra furniture you have in storage and focus on removing any oversized or damaged pieces. With the furniture that is left over, rearrange it to make the room feel spacious.
Don't Forget the Outside
Your outside area is the first thing that buyers see when pulling up to your home. You want to make a good first impression by improving your curb appeal before selling. A few suggestions to spruce up your outside include removing dirt and grime from your siding with a pressure washer or painting the front door and shutters a bright color that coordinates with the rest of your home. Staging your home does not need to be expensive. All it takes is some smart decisions and organization.
Our team at HomeHunt understands the importance of staging and the benefits of the process. Let us match you with an agent in your area that can help you make the necessary changes to your home and stage it properly for showings. Contact us today to get the process started!