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Staging a Home to Sell

Life changes and you have made the decision that it is time to move. All the Staging shows on television make getting your house ready to sell look so easy. You never know who the prospective buyer for your house could be. He or she could be an investor, a single man or woman who plans to work out of their home or a family who lives down the street. I have a few ideas for you on how to prepare your house to look inviting to sell to anyone who might want to buy it.

As a first impression walking into your house do you use your couch or other pieces of furniture as a room divider? When you are decorating your home to live in it using the couch as a room divider can be fine and can look great. However, furniture placement many times must be different when you are selling your home. When selling your home a couch can appear like a visual barrier instead of a room divider. You need to have the rooms as open and inviting as possible. Make sure you do not have too much furniture in each room. The buyer needs to be able to visualize their furniture in your house. Many times a prospective buyer can not see the architecture of the house because all they can see is a crowded room and too much stuff all around. Your goal is to make each room look as large as possible. Less congestion creates a feeling of mental ease and the ability to concentrate. You are not trying to sell your décor or furniture you are trying to sell the architectural assets of each room.

Have you been “creative” with your décor in your little girl’s room? When you are trying to sell your house sometimes your creativity is good and sometimes it is bad. Try to make your daughters room look like it could be either a room for a girl or boy. Sometimes changing her room to a gender neutral room is not possible. You can at least change the color on the wall if it is pink. A pink wall is not the best color to have on the wall when you are trying to sell your house. Also, a sheer canopy hanging from the ceiling over a bed is not good either. If her bedspread is pink replace it if possible with a neutral color.