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Staging a Home to Sell

Once you have decided to sell your home, you will want to get the best market-related price in the shortest period of time possible. But before you open your doors to prospective buyers, you need to make your home as appealing as possible. This is where the concept of staging your home comes into play. 

Why stage your home?

The reason most experienced real estate agents suggest staging your home is really a question of presentation. If you go out on a date, or go for a job interview, you’ll do your best to look good. Right? Well it’s the same for your home. While it is probably your haven, full of things you love and cherish, your personal belongings and clutter are more likely to detract from the house, than add purposeful character. 

Staging a home to sell has nothing to do with major home renovations, or in fact maintenance. Rather, it’s about cleaning up, clearing out, tidying and sprucing up to make your home look beautifully turned out. 

People are generally remarkably unimaginative when it comes to visualizing, so you need to get your home as perfect as possible – by staging your home. 

How to stage a house

Essentially what staging a home to sell comes down to is highlighting its strengths; downplaying its weaknesses; and in this way ensuring it will appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. 

Here are five proven ideas that will show you how to stage a house so that it will sell quickly and get the asking price:

1. Paint for a purpose. Giving walls a lick of paint doesn’t take much time, effort or money. Not only will it clean up, but paint can also add ambiance and make rooms look bigger. 
2. Get rid of clutter. This doesn’t just mean putting things away where they belong. Staging your home successfully is going to involve clearing space to the best advantage, and may even require you to remove furniture. It’ll be your choice whether you sell excess pieces or store them. 
3. Group your furniture. Done well this will open up the room and make traffic flow easier. Pushing things against the wall is not normally a good option. 
4. Ensure every room has an obvious function. Sometimes repurposing a room will add value. It’s also a good trick in terms of how to stage a house. An unused bedroom can become a cozy den, or a junk room may be transformed into a study.
5. Don’t forget the outside. First impressions imprint on people’s minds. Do whatever you can to make the entrance look welcoming.

If you succeed in staging your home, you’re going to sell it. 

Thinking of Selling? I would love to assist you and help you with the sale of your home.

For good, practical advice, please contact me Jim@JimClevelandHomes.com