8 Home Staging Tips To Sell Your Home Fast

BY: THINK FRINK HOME TEAM

What is Home Staging? Home staging refers to "setting the stage," or getting the house ready for a potential buyer. To make the house look its best, it requires remodeling, moving furniture around, cleaning, and other aesthetic techniques. The purpose of home staging is to sell a house as quickly and profitably as possible. Making your home appear ideal is especially important in the current market, as more customers conduct online searches before booking tours.

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The largest investment most people will ever make is buying a home, and in order to make that happen, buyers must be able to picture the property as their own.

In order to stand out from the competitors in today's real estate market, your house must be priced fairly, situated favorably, and visually more appealing than the others.

Staging is one of the most effective ways to sell a home more quickly. Below are the tips we can suggest.

1. Make it clean and appealing   

   

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First impression is important, so invest in cleaning the whole house including the floor, ceiling, interior and exterior of the house. Clean and declutter unnecessary furniture and stuff. Paint your front door a brighter color but make sure it compliments well with the whole house colors. Change the welcome mat, curtains, mailbox, lighting, and old home numbers.

Plant seasonal flowers, tiny bushes, and other greenery plants. If you have window boxes, put fresh plants inside of them as well. Add a few chairs to your porch or stoop if there is room for them to increase the size of your outdoor sitting area.

2. Paint your floors

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Giving your floors a coat of paint makes them appear brand new. 

3. Paint your walls and make it larger and brighter
 

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The best neutral paint colors for staging a home are light grays, beiges, and whites. These neutral colors are not only durable and timeless but also reflect light well and can make a room appear larger. Painting the interior of the house contribute to the overall appeal. It gives your home a clean and fresh look, sets the mood and can help highlight specific features.

4. Give the kitchen a makeover

 
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It’s true that kitchen can sell houses. The makeover doesn’t need to be expensive. You may consider to repaint your cabinets for a fresh look also. You may apply classic white, grey or navy blue colors. Clean the top and keep the whole kitchen cluttered free. You may also check and change the faucet. Keep appliances that you do not use anymore. Change the kitchen rug and label your containers. Upcycle existing furniture.

5. Reduce Furniture and be minimalist
 

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One of the most important thing in staging is eliminate some furniture. Less is always more. Your home should appear larger and you want potential buyers to be able to move around each room without being blocked by furniture. We want your potential buyers the feeling to imagine themselves living inside it. Stay and keep only essential furniture for a more minimalist appeal.

6. Depersonalize
 
 
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When you have made your decision to sell your home, prepare yourself emotionally. Depersonalizing is very important in home staging before taking your online listing photos. You should remove your personal things before listing it for sale so that potential buyers can picture their own personality in that house. You need to go through your home and pack up or store all of your personal belongings to make it simple for them to do this. Remove family photos, framed diplomas, and other personal collections.

7. Show off your storage

 
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Storage is consistently a top consideration for buyers. Clear your drawers and closets. Put some clean sheets and towels inside your drawers. Use under-shelf baskets and shoe racks to show off your storage's flexibility.

8.  Clean bathroom
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Spots like Living Room and Kitchen are equally important and so are the bathrooms. They are also going to be looking at the cleanliness, and overall vibe of your house. They should feel confident that you your bathrooms have been well-maintained over the years and won't need big modifications. Scrub all over, add some elements and inviting touches, put clean towels and clean the mirror. Repaint the cabinets if you still can for fresher look. They should feel they are at the comfort of their own home.  Include some bathroom decors like flowers or small plant, Labeled shampoos, packed soaps, white robes and couple of toiletries such as tissues, cotton balls etc. These are all low-cost touches that instantly can make any bathroom feel more appealing.

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