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Decorating Tips
Helpful Hints to Prepare
Your Home For Market
WALLS/ARTWORK
It is not always necessary to rent or purchase extra art for the
walls. Shop your dining room or kitchen for decorative plates to
hang in sequences. For an example in the last home that I
staged, I found six pastel plates in the basement with an
oriental theme. The colors matched the master bedroom color
palette perfectly. I displayed the plates over the headboard on
the bed in an arched sequence. This added sophistication and a
finished look to the room and was inexpensive. Decorative plates
can make a nice statement to most rooms.
PHOTOS
Always remove family pictures from the frames and replace each
photo with a picture from a magazine. Reason being, that most
home shoppers are “looky loues”. They become distracted in
looking at the homeowner’s family photos and very quickly form
opinions and prejudices. They suddenly see the home as someone
else’s. The goal is to create the perfect first impression
instantly! Remember people buy homes for emotional reasons, so
it’s important to create a fantasy home and lure the buyer in.
Cut out pictures of happy families, ie: beautiful woman,
children at the beach, a bride and groom, a grandfather holding
an infant, and place them in frames throughout the home. Photo’s
are very personal, although you admire your precious family it
is very wise to pack and store those pictures. Remember it won’t
belong before you’ll get to display them again in your new home!
CLOSETS
When staging a home for sale be sure to make the closets appear
spacious. Remove half of the clothing. Remove shoes and keep the
closet floor empty. Arrange the clothing so that colors are
grouped together and look neat. Remove wires hangers and
purchase hangers that are the same make and color (I suggest
using black or white). I have been successful in purchasing
inexpensive plastic hangers at the local dollar store. Storage
and closet space is very important in home buying and can be the
determinate factor in the sale.
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