Home Staging is the process of highlighting a home's strengths while downplaying it's weaknesses, through techniques such as depersonalization, de-cluttering, cleaning, addressing maintenance issues, and implementing interior design principles. A typical home staging consultation will last about two hours and will have your home headed in the right direction for a quick real estate sale.
Here are a Few Home Staging Secrets and Tips to Help Sell Your Home:
- Remove any furniture from your home that is broken or very worn out and that does not serve a needed purpose. For example, do you really need several extra chairs in your Living Room when you already have a couch?
- Replace any light bulb that is older that 1 year. Replace the light bulbs with GE Reveal light bulbs, this type of bulb will give off a clear white light and your home will look lighter and brighter if you use it.
- All clutter needs to be removed from all your counters, dressers, tables, and sinks. If you have not used something is over six months, now is the time to pack it away in a moving box.
- Never place furniture up against a wall; there should be at least a 6-8 inch gap behind every piece of furniture.
- Every room should only have one purpose; your Dining Room needs to be turned back into a Dining Room - it should not be your kid's craft room!
- Heavy, dark window treatments should always be removed. When you are selling your home, you want to use sheers and silk window treatments on your windows to allow natural sunlight to beam into every room.
- Light your home appropriately. According to HGTV, aim for 100 watts of light for every 50 square feet in your home.
- Bring greenery in the form of real of faux plants into every room.
- To freshen up the appearance of any room, use paint in a neutral color.
- The best accent colors to use are red and black, these colors give your room a rich and luxurious look.
- External curb appeal is very important, if a potential buyer is turned off by your home's front yard it is unlikely they will want to enter inside your home.
If you are planning on selling your home, the best time to consult a professional home stager if before you place your home on the real estate market for sale. In this economy, you only get one shot to make the right first impression. A professional home stager can help you design each room of your room to ensure you attract the largest potential buyer audience.
Kate's Home Staging and Redesign works with home sellers and local Realtors to ready home for sale. Contact Kate to schedule your home staging consultation by calling 845-538-3623 or visit www.kateshomestaging.com for more information.
Thanks Kate for the advise
These good tips for any seller. The statistics show that staged homes sell quicker for more money.
If a realtor is smart, he or she will take their client out to see a staged home and the difference in the feel of the home as you walk in.
Also, keep before and after pictures of staged homes for your listing presentation. A picture can say a thousand words!
Great advice! I didn't know about the 100 watts for every 50 sq. ft....something I will keep in mind.
Great Tips, but how do we get our sellers to believe us?
Thanks for the great advice. I live in a small community and we do not have any stagers here. Maybe with your help I can be my own stager.
Great tips....and most cost little to nothing but will pay dividends!!
Hello Kate,
Great tips and advice for sellers. Thank you for posting! Have a great day!
Chris
Thanks for all your kind words, convincing sellers to use home stagers seems to be an obstacle still. I think it is an education issue at this point.