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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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