Pina and Sarah are professional decorators and have provided useful home staging tips for sellers.
Here’s what they had to say.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Decluttering your home is key to successful home staging. Pina and Sarah could not agree more.
Pina recommended stowing away knickknacks to make spaces feel less cluttered. Sarah suggested taking down family photos to depersonalize the home for potential buyers.
The key is to make your home feel larger and to allow buyers to picture themselves and their families in the space.
This, says Sarah, is a key part of staging your home for sale. It’s about depersonalizing, so you want to tone down colors. If your walls are brightly painted, consider repainting them a more neutral color. Stick to beiges, taupes, whites and other soothing, neutrals.
If you don’t have the time to paint, or are unwilli
ng to make the investment, another way to neutralize bright colors is to accessorize with neutral accents. Pina recommends using white throw pillows on brightly colored furniture, or switching colorful drapes for white or beige ones.
Lighter colors make a space feel larger, letting in more light. That can only be advantageous to your home sale!
Eliminate dark corners of your living room or dining room to make your space look bigger. Especially with winter approaching and daylight hours being shorter, maximizing your lighting is vital to showing your home to advantage.
Sarah recommends removing dark and opaque window dressings, and even suggests adding a lamp here or there to make sure rooms are brightly lit and welcoming.
But beware! Bright lighting may reveal some problem areas that need work. If you spot them, Sarah says, deal with them. If anything looks run down, freshen it up so that you won’t be afraid to hit the light switch.
That’s why Pina suggests removing items that make a room feel cozy, such as large area rugs. Large rugs, to paraphrase the Dude, really tie a room together. But they have the added effect of making a space seem smaller than it is.
So Pina says, take up the rug and show off your beautiful floors.
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No knickknacks in sight.
1. Decluttering and Depersonalizing for Successful Home Staging
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Decluttering your home is key to successful home staging. Pina and Sarah could not agree more.Pina recommended stowing away knickknacks to make spaces feel less cluttered. Sarah suggested taking down family photos to depersonalize the home for potential buyers.
The key is to make your home feel larger and to allow buyers to picture themselves and their families in the space.
White makes spaces feel larger.
2. Neutralize Colors
This, says Sarah, is a key part of staging your home for sale. It’s about depersonalizing, so you want to tone down colors. If your walls are brightly painted, consider repainting them a more neutral color. Stick to beiges, taupes, whites and other soothing, neutrals.If you don’t have the time to paint, or are unwilli
ng to make the investment, another way to neutralize bright colors is to accessorize with neutral accents. Pina recommends using white throw pillows on brightly colored furniture, or switching colorful drapes for white or beige ones.
Lighter colors make a space feel larger, letting in more light. That can only be advantageous to your home sale!
3. Speaking of Light…
Eliminate dark corners of your living room or dining room to make your space look bigger. Especially with winter approaching and daylight hours being shorter, maximizing your lighting is vital to showing your home to advantage.Sarah recommends removing dark and opaque window dressings, and even suggests adding a lamp here or there to make sure rooms are brightly lit and welcoming.
But beware! Bright lighting may reveal some problem areas that need work. If you spot them, Sarah says, deal with them. If anything looks run down, freshen it up so that you won’t be afraid to hit the light switch.
It may tie the room together but it also makes it feel smaller.
4. Home Staging Isn’t About Cozy
Home staging, Pina says, is probably the opposite of interior decorating. An interior decorator’s job is to make sure that the home and its furnishings reflect the owner and his or her character. Home staging is, as we said, about removing personality and making it easy for buyers to imagine themselves living there.That’s why Pina suggests removing items that make a room feel cozy, such as large area rugs. Large rugs, to paraphrase the Dude, really tie a room together. But they have the added effect of making a space seem smaller than it is.
So Pina says, take up the rug and show off your beautiful floors.
Contact me today for a Free Home Value Report or Home Buyer's Toolkit!
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