HOME STAGING 101

When selling your home staging needs to go beyond cleaning windows and putting out a welcome mat.  Home Staging is Marketing.  It’s about detaching from your home so that buyers can see themselves living there.  Here are some Fresh Staging ideas that work.

• Make sure there are no visible nicks on your furniture, especially in the living room, master bedroom and entryway.  Paint or replace if it is so.
• Outdoor furniture should be as appealing as the indoor furniture.  Repaint, clean and/or replace worn out cushions
• Remove all family photos except two or three.  Buyer’s like to see who they’re buying the house from and if they see a happy photo of your family, they’ll feel more confident that they’ll be happy in the home.  But too many photos will make the home feel like “your” home and buyers won’t see themselves in it.
• Ensure the first thing a buyer sees when they open the front door is high-quality, in good repair and colorful.  Fresh flowers are good – droopy plants with brown edges are not.  Place your most appealing artwork, rug and furniture here in this room.
• A few potted plants around the house is good as long as they are trimmed.  No plastic pots – transplant them to ceramic pots.
• Don’t display too much of one thing.  If you love cats and have a lot of cat memorabilia remember that not all buyers will have a positive reaction when they look at cats.  Limit memorabilia to one item in each room, there items total throughout the house.
• Ensure every bed in the house has lots of pillows on it.  Each bed should have two rows of pillows and a decorative pillow in the middle.

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