How to Stage Your Home For a Quick Sale
Home staging is a method of preparing your home prior to a sale in order to bring about a quicker sale at a higher price. Colors, textures, even odors, contribute to the overall impression your home will make on prospective buyers. Home staging done by professional stagers will bring forth your home’s strengths while understating its weaknesses
Remove all excess furniture from each area of your home. Concentrate instead on core pieces of furniture and design each room’s contents around them.
Pull all furniture away from walls to give a more open appearance and facilitate traffic flow patterns from one room or area to another.
Periodically move furnishings around in new and different designs and patterns.
Create a warming entrance to your home to welcome prospective home buyers. Eliminate worn, rotting, or damaged planters. Remove all the clutter like bikes, shoes, and worn out welcome mats
Examine the lighting in each room. Ideally, accent lighting should be layered with task and ambient lighting to eliminate shadows and dark areas. A good benchmark is to aim for approximately 100 watts of lighting for each 50 square feet of area
Avoid the use of strong colors on your walls and ceilings. Oversize furniture is another bug-a-boo when staging your home for a quick sale. Think in terms of light, but not fragile, pieces.
Avoid displaying art, especially paintings, in traditional fashion. Instead of placing paintings on the walls at the same height, think about different patterns and places that you might be able to display your paintings in new and surprising ways.
accessories should always be displayed in odd-numbered layouts. Three is an acceptable and welcome number for visual presentations of vases, knickknacks, and bric-a-brac.
avoid anything that might serve as a distraction to the home buyer.