Listing & Selling

5 Tips to Staging Your Home Like a Professional

Are you considering putting your house up for sale, but not sure where to start? Afraid it will take too long to sell, or that you won’t get the price you want? If this is the case, you should definitely think about “staging” your home — or in other words — setting the scene for immediate buyer interest. Following are five tips to get you started:

1. De-clutter — This is one of the most important things you can do. It might be easier to think of de-cluttering like this: You’re moving anyway, so why not start packing now?
2. Storage — Pack up everything you don’t need and store the boxes out of sight in the garage, or better yet, an offsite storage facility.
3. Organize Your Closets — Put similar colors together, pants together, skirts together, shirts together, etc. Why? Because an organized closet looks bigger, and you want your closets to look as spacious as possible.
4. Make It Look Like a Model — You want to de-personalize as much as possible so potential buyers can imagine themselves and their own belongings occupying the space in your house. That means minimizing – putting away everything you don’t need or use. Clear off the kitchen counter and stash all appliances you don’t use on a daily basis.
5. Your the Buyer — Imagine yourself as a potential buyer looking at the property for the very first time. What impressions are you getting? Would you buy the house? What would you like to see changed before you put an offer on it?

Don’t worry about spending a few hundred, even thousands, of dollars to get your house ready to sell – you’ll likely get it all back, even more, when your home sells. Proper staging helps you sell your house in a shorter time and at the price you want.