10 Tips & Tricks of Staging

Stage where it counts! 🥇

Focus your efforts on the areas that have the highest potential and biggest influence to persuade buyers decisions. Not every room needs excessive staging, the rooms that do and hold the most importance for buyers are the living room, master bedroom, and kitchen. These are the rooms that you want to focus the most on when you’re staging a home.

De-personalize the space 📦

One of your point primary objectives of home staging is to help buyers visualize the space as their own. Accomplish this by setting as blank of a canvas as you can, You want the home to have style and charm, but it should be devoid of personal touches that suggest this home belongs to the seller, not the buyer.

Get rid of clutter 🗑

Clutter takes up a lot of space, and space is what sells. Make your home look bigger and more desirable by editing out items. You don’t have to get rid of things forever, but you should certainly be packing them up and getting them out of the house. Buyers will be opening your closets too so don’t think just by closing a door solves the problem because buyers will be curious to look at the square footage potential. The less clutter you’ve got in the space, the bigger it will look and the more appealing it will be to buyers.

Clean like you’ve never cleaned before 🧹

Spring cleaning has nothing on the cleaning you should do when you’re putting your home on the market. You want every square inch to shine perfection, from the baseboards to the corners of your ceilings and everywhere in between. A squeaky clean home tell buyers that the current tenants take good care of the property, a notion that extends beyond the kitchen counter tops to the entire house. If you’ve neglected certain tasks, like cleaning the inside of your refrigerator or regularly dusting your window blinds, now is the time to tackle them.

Patch and repair 🧑‍🔧

Home staging is a good time to tackle the tiny nicks, scratches, holes, and other impurities that signify neglect to buyers. Just like with cleaning, the purpose is as much about showing potential buyers that you’ve put effort into maintaining the property as it is about making the place look nice.

Go neutral 🖌

This staging tip is a bit more time and cost intensive, but it can make a major difference when it comes to your sale price and time on the market. When you’re staging your home to sell, one of the very best things you can do is paint over any garish colors with neutrals, like gray, white, and taupe. Buyers might want bright colors themselves, but a neutral home gives them the option to do that or not.

Make a lasting impression 😍

The first thing a buyer is going to see when they walk up to your house is the front entrance, so you want it to make a strong positive impression. Keep the space simple but welcoming to start buyers off on the right foot and suggest good things to come inside.

Focus on Fresh 🌿

A few healthy, well-placed plants and flowers can add life and freshness into your space. Space them out to avoid over clutter in any one particular area, but try to have a couple fresh items in areas that matter. Don’t have a green thumb well fake plants will set the same atmosphere with less maintenance.Another aspect of freshness is making sure there are no odors. A deep clean should take care of any lingering smells, you want the smell to be pleasant, but subtle. If you know you have a showing don’t wait till the last minute.

Let the light shine in ☀️

Dark rooms are sad rooms. Brighten it up by letting as much light shine in the house as possible. Letting in more light will also make rooms seem bigger.Turn on all the lights in your house for showings, including lamps and closet lights. This will make your home more warm and inviting the plus side to this saves buyers from having to stumble around figuring out which switches turn on which lights.

Rearrange your furniture 🛋

You want there to be as much open, walkable space as possible. This helps buyers navigate the space, and also helps them better visualize their own furniture in each room.

Staging your home to sell just requires making smart decisions. AtkinDesigns not only will be able to walk you through the process but also help you make specific changes that will add value to your home and entice the buyers you prefer.