Preparing a property for viewings is never an effortless task, but first impressions count when attempting to sell your home. By correctly staging your property, you can ensure a quick sale at the best possible price. We’ve identified some easy tips you can follow to ensure you stage your home right for viewings.
What is home staging?
Home staging is styling your property specifically for the purpose of selling it by presenting the property in the best possible light and ensuring it appeals to a wide range of buyers. Fine & Country Property Staging and Styling offers all aspects of professional property presentation to make sure your property hits the market looking its absolute best, both inside and out. After all, buying a home is a joint decision between the head and the heart – and home staging is the best way to win over a buyer’s heart.
Boost your property’s kerb appeal
The property’s exterior is as important as the interior, so create a stylish external appearance that will produce an immediate positive impression on any potential buyer. Potted plants, hanging baskets, a freshly painted featured door, a well-manicured front lawn, or even a simply swept driveway can achieve this. Consider your property's entrance to be another room that deserves as much attention as the others.
Clear personal items and clutter out of sight
Decluttering your home is one of the most vital steps in property staging. Clutter and personal items create distractions for potential buyers viewing the property, making rooms appear smaller. Having personal items and clutter on display takes away the entire aesthetic of the property and can prevent the home from reaching its true selling potential. When decluttering your property while staging, don’t remove too much, as it can sometimes make properties appear lifeless. Finding the right balance when home staging is tricky but crucial.
Give each room a purpose
Dress each room with a specific purpose and switch up your room's layouts. If you advertise your property as a four-bedroom property, make sure each room can clearly serve as a bedroom, or that potential buyers can convert the rooms into other uses like a walk-in wardrobe, a home office, etc. Be creative and reimagine potential room layouts and purposes. Move large pieces of furniture and place decorative interior around the room, allowing it all to come together.
Realising the impact of good lighting
Lighting has the power to completely change a room and its presentation. When staging a home, you want to create warm lighting, fostering a homely atmosphere. Adding feature lights and lamps at different levels of the room creates depth, and choosing different patterned lampshades can be a decorative piece. From fairy lights to crystal chandeliers, ice white to warm shades, there are so many different types of lighting that bring a different environment to each room.
Embrace a neutral colour palette
Refreshing each room with a neutral colour palette is the best approach for luring potential buyers. This displays the property as a blank canvas, ready for the buyers to enjoy and experiment with, and allows potential buyers to imagine certain furniture or décor they may want to introduce to the property. Understanding the importance of this home staging tip is crucial as you aim to appeal to a wide range of buyers. By presenting your property with colourful and unique décor, it narrows the market for buyers, potentially prolonging your property's selling period.
Bring the outside in
Achieve this by allowing natural light to shine through windows and letting fresh air circulate through the property. This can reduce the stuffiness inside the home and allow the property to feel awake during the day. When your home viewings begin to occur, placing flower bouquets and indoor potted plants can bring an incredible feel to each individual room, creating a fresh feel and a natural floral scent.
Top tip - Avoid the flower lilies; these create a lot of mess from their pollen and a unique smell that not everyone takes a liking to.
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