3 Effective Home Staging Tips

3 Effective Home Staging Tips

When you are getting ready to sell your home, it’s important to help your house as much as possible. This is where the practice of home staging comes into play. By taking the time to fix up your home in the right areas, you can boost your chance of selling at a higher ticket price. On average, staged homes sell for about 6.5% more than unstaged homes. If your home is valued at $200,000, that could be a $13,000 difference in closing price.

Since staging can make such a huge difference in the sale price of a home, I’ve put together the best staging tips. These tips are the real difference makers, and the ones I have suggested for years. Stick to these simple home staging tips, and your house is sure to sell at a higher price.

1. Boost Curb Appeal

First impressions are everything, so you want to make sure you have the best looking house on the block. That means taking some time to tend to the lawn, paint the porch, wash the windows, and make your house sparkle from the outside. If your house gives that loving home feeling the first time they see the outside, they will be excited to see the inside. If starts every viewing off on the right foot, especially when they step on your new welcome home mat.

2. Use Space, Don’t Abuse Space

You want to set up your belongings to look like a loving home. That means using your space to the best of its ability. The first thing you need to do is clean. Make sure everything is spotless throughout the house, and make sure you pack up unnecessary items. The goal here is to find a happy medium between lived in and, “look at all this space you can have.” If you are looking for hard numbers, shoot for a 60% space to 40% how my things fit here ratio. If you are questioning if you have too much going on, the chances are, you do.

If you have big open rooms, try placing items in areas that let people walk around those items on all sides. This helps open spaces seem manageable, while still letting people know what a gem this big room is in your home.

If you have small areas, try minimizing the number of items in them to open the space up. By using 4 or 5 perfect items, you can turn a tiny nook into a major selling point.

It’s all about making each room look perfect in the eyes of the seller. So, have fun, and turn this into a beautiful dream house for the buyers.

3. The Right Item Around Every Corner

The goal of a home staging is to create a flow, and you can do that by simply setting up the home is a specific way. By creating an atmosphere around every corner, you can entice people to want to look around. When they see how you have made every step of the home something new and enticing for them, their minds start to run wild with how they could achieve a similar feeling in their own style. That’s good! You want them to think about how it can be because it means they are thinking of buying!

The welcome mat that leads to the entryway. The side table in the hallway they have never seen that opens them into the kitchen. The open kitchen leading to the dining room table, then into the family room. From the family room, you can see the stairs, and when they poke their heads around the corner and look to the top, they see a small chair next to books and a lamp. Of course, they are going to go and see it, so they do, only to find another area upstairs for them to explore.

Sounds crazy, but you can imagine what I’m talking about, can’t you? Walk through your house and make a fairytale story for a homebuyer. It will help you set up a flow that keeps them looking. The more they search, the better the chances of make a sale. Open those doors and closets, and show what they could have if they bought your home.

Create a Journey Through Home Staging

If you can really make a journey for the prospective buyer throughout your home, you will have a better chance of selling for the price you are asking, or more. Since potential buyers find it easier to imagine themselves in a furnished home, it’s important to make sure your house can spark that imagination.

Minimal styles and rustic colors are great to go by when you are trying to pick items like tables, couches, and curtains. Finding the right level of neutral but bright is a great way to add more perceived value in your home as well. Mocha and “greige” are great color schemes to use if you are feeling lost.

If you follow these tips and tricks, you will be able to get more from your home’s value. The best part is these mostly take time and patience, and can be done with relatively low cost to their potential yield.

I’ve helped clients stage homes for better results for years, so please contact me if you need help. My name is Hama Cazac, and I’m here to help you sell your home.