Home Staging Tips & Tricks to Sell Faster

Home staging entails highlighting your house’s interior spaces, exterior, and selling points for potential buyers.

You lessen (or do away with) distractions and emphasize your home’s best qualities and the lifestyle it can provide.

For themselves and their families, people are searching for the best possible home.

You are frequently in competition with neighbors selling their houses.

You can sell your home more quickly by using these home staging suggestions.

Staging your house can help give you the competitive edge you need and help you stand out from the other homes on the market.

Staging Ideas for a Living Room

Tips for staging a living room

• Remove any extra furniture from your home to help each room feel larger.
• To help make a space feel larger, move furniture away from the wall in some rooms, like the living room
• Think about buying new curtains to replace your old ones. This will help the space feel cleaner.
• Group smaller pieces of art of the same kind when hanging them.
• If any cords or wires from your television, radio, lamp, or other electronic device are visible. Think about hiding cords so they are not seen.

Presentation of Your Dining Room

Tips for staging a dining room

• To make the dining room appear larger, take away any extra table leaves and put them away.
• Set the table for dinner the way you would if you were hosting guests for a special occasion.
• From the floor to the ceiling, hang light-colored curtains. This will contribute to creating the impression of higher ceilings.
• To let in more natural light, clean and open the blinds.
• To temporarily brighten darker rooms, swap out low wattage light bulbs for 100 watt bulbs.

How to Set Up Your Kitchen

Tips for staging a kitchen

• The majority of the items you typically keep on your counters should be cleaned and put away.
• One time-tested staging advice is to include a bowl of fruit to add more color.
• Kitchens can be easily transformed by staining or painting outdated cabinets, despite the time commitment.
• Consider replacing the outdated knobs and hardware after updating your dated cabinets.
• Remove all of the contents from the refrigerator as another way to depersonalize a home when staging it.
• Spice up your cooking! A new backsplash can be added in a variety of quick and simple ways to give a room more personality.

Tips for staging a bedroom

• Hang your clothes in groups, all facing the same way, to organize your closet.
• TVs and other forms of entertainment can be removed to create a more relaxing atmosphere.
• Replace worn-out linens with fresh, white, textured ones.
• Make the bed, add new pillows, and throw pillows to make a bedroom feel cozier.
• It’s difficult to avoid having the bed pushed into the corner of smaller bedrooms. To better balance the space, think about moving the bed away from the wall.
• Over time, bookshelves frequently gather more than just dust. Eliminate all built-ins and bookcases.

Bathrooms also require staging.

Advice on setting up a bathroom

• Shampoo, toothpaste, and any other toiletry supplies should be put away.
• The bathroom should have fresh, white towels. To save wall space, try folding towels into thirds.
• Apply fresh white caulking around the bathroom after removing the old, moldy caulk.
• Put trash cans away or in hiding.
• Place a fresh bottle of luxurious hand soap on the sink counter.
• Small, white hand towels that have been rolled up should be put in a basket on the counter.
• Make sure to scrub the bathroom thoroughly. including the toilet, the bathtub, and even the back of it.

LEASEHOLDERS IN YOUR HOME

Renters in your home can be a challenging circumstance.

They can make it difficult to show your home by refusing to let people inside or by making your home (or the area they are occupying) unsightly in many cases because they don’t want to move (if the house is sold).

I did show a house where the basement was rented out; I kid you not, their *decor* included shrunken heads in jars. Although they appeared *real*, I’m not sure if they were real, but that one ranks near the top of the list of the strangest things I’ve seen while showing houses.

My clients, who are now close friends, and I continue to laugh to this day.

I’ve witnessed and heard about numerous instances where renters have ruined showings.

The truth is as it is.

I know you may think they are the best renters ever and would never do something like that, but it does happen. Yes, some are truly remarkable, but many SABATOGE.

Prepare yourself for this.

Before you put your house on the market, you might want to legally end the lease and assist them in moving elsewhere.