Successful Staging of Your Home

Be it on Television, Online, or in a magazine, you have probably by now heard of staging. It’s clear that staging your home can give you a competitive advantage when selling your home, but most people still aren’t too sure exactly what that means or what it involves.

Staging is organizing and decorating your home so that potential buyers can visualize themselves living there. One doesn’t need to spend a fortune to stage their home, the key is to figure out your homes best attributes, and highlight them while having few distractions.

Once spring time hits, the market will begin to get flooded with homes hitting the market, staging your home could give it the competitive advantage you need to blow away the competition, here are a few tips to help you get started.

DE-CLUTTER- buy some storage bins and start packing away all those little trinkets passed down from grandma. Store away all your jewelry and other small items. Take special care in the bathrooms and kitchen and put away as much as you can, clearing all items from the counter tops.

TAKE OUT PERSONAL ITEMS- No one cares what your kid got on their last test, nor do they want to see your Christmas cards or pics from your vacation. All of these things will only distract buyers from the great features of your home.

LIGHT AND WARMTH- Make your home welcoming and warm by having it bright. Open those curtains to let the sun flood in. If it is winter, turn up the heat. If it is summer, get that A/C working.

FURNITURE- Make sure your furiture helps show the size of yourrooms. Avoid having excessively large pieces, or too many pieces that take up too much space. Also, that old lazy boy that is formed just perfectly to you, has got to go, sorry.

NEUTRAL COLOURS- Ok so you love the Green Bay Packers, this doesn’t mean that everyone is going to love your green and yellow man cave. Stick with neutral colours throughout the home.

QUICK FIXES- Little things add up in a buyers mind. Look for all the small things that could be easily fixed, and deal with the issues.

CLEAN- Should be a no brainer here but you’d be suprised how many homes I see that are not clean. I have lots of great cleaning crews that can do a fantastic job for you so that you can’t cut any corners and can focus on more important things.

FINAL TOUCHES- Some flowers for the table, candles on the mantle, throw pillows for the couches and beds. All sorts of little things to splash a bit of colour will do wonders on a lasting impression. I have a great design team that can help you with that as well.

The time of year is coming, homes will be sold for top dollar and in short time periods. Give me a shout to allow me to help your homes be one of them so we can get you into your dream home that much quicker! amiller@kwottawa.ca