Home Staging to Sell Your House
Staging is the process of preparing any home for sale, regardless of price or location. When you place your home on the market for sale it becomes a product. Similar to a product on the shelf at your local store, the product has features and benefits as well as pluses and minuses, and competition.
You should Stage your home to compete with the competition in the marketplace you must be priced right and look better than the other products. Your home is no different, it is one of many homes for sale and you must present it to the buyers in the best possible light.
Before you show your home to any potential buyer be sure to go through your whole house with your agent to finish the Staging process. Try to look at your house through a buyer's eyes, as though you have never seen it before. This exercise will help you see what needs to be done. Here are some quick tips.
- Clear all unnecessary objects from furniture throughout the house. . In general, a sparsely decorated home will help the buyer mentally 'move in' with their own things.
- Rearrange or remove some of the furniture in your home, if necessary. Many times home owners have too much furniture in a room. When it comes to selling your home, thin out overcrowded rooms to make the rooms appear larger.
- Clear all unnecessary objects from the kitchen countertops. If it hasn't been used for three months...put it away! Clear refrigerator fronts of messages, magnets, pictures, etc.
- In the bathroom, remove any unnecessary items from the countertops, tub, shower stall and commode top. Keep only the most necessary cosmetics, brushes, perfumes, etc., in one small group on the counter. Coordinate towels in one or two colors only.
- Take down, reduce, or rearrange pictures and objects on walls. Patch and paint all walls, if necessary.
- Paint any room needing paint.
- Clean carpet and drapes that need it.
- Clean windows.
- If you need room to store extra possessions use the garage or rent a storage unit.
- During showings, turn on ALL lights and lamps.
- Play light FM music every day in the house, for all viewings.
You should Stage your home to compete with the competition in the marketplace you must be priced right and look better than the other products. Your home is no different, it is one of many homes for sale and you must present it to the buyers in the best possible light.
Before you show your home to any potential buyer be sure to go through your whole house with your agent to finish the Staging process. Try to look at your house through a buyer's eyes, as though you have never seen it before. This exercise will help you see what needs to be done. Here are some quick tips.
- Clear all unnecessary objects from furniture throughout the house. . In general, a sparsely decorated home will help the buyer mentally 'move in' with their own things.
- Rearrange or remove some of the furniture in your home, if necessary. Many times home owners have too much furniture in a room. When it comes to selling your home, thin out overcrowded rooms to make the rooms appear larger.
- Clear all unnecessary objects from the kitchen countertops. If it hasn't been used for three months...put it away! Clear refrigerator fronts of messages, magnets, pictures, etc.
- In the bathroom, remove any unnecessary items from the countertops, tub, shower stall and commode top. Keep only the most necessary cosmetics, brushes, perfumes, etc., in one small group on the counter. Coordinate towels in one or two colors only.
- Take down, reduce, or rearrange pictures and objects on walls. Patch and paint all walls, if necessary.
- Paint any room needing paint.
- Clean carpet and drapes that need it.
- Clean windows.
- If you need room to store extra possessions use the garage or rent a storage unit.
- During showings, turn on ALL lights and lamps.
- Play light FM music every day in the house, for all viewings.
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