3 Tips for Staging a Home
When it’s time to sell a house, you want to make it as appealing as possible to a wide range of prospective buyers. That is why real estate agents recommend staging your home. This process involves cleaning, decorating, and arranging a property to highlight its best features. As you prepare to sell your house, keep the following staging tips in mind to attract higher serious offers and sell your home quickly and at maximum profit.
How to Prepare for Home Staging
1. Clean Your Home Thoroughly
Before a staging expert can get to work, your home must first be completely clean. Cleanliness signals to potential buyers that you’ve taken care of your property without distracting them from the home’s most appealing features. Clean stains and patches of discoloration on the walls, floors, and ceilings first. Then, wash the windows inside and out, wipe down all surfaces and countertops, and dust high shelves and furniture.
2. Declutter and Depersonalize
When a prospective buyer visits the home, they want to envision how they might arrange or decorate the space. Clutter, even if it consists of items you use every day, is a distraction and can give visitors the wrong impression about the size of the home.
Since your belongings will need to be packed anyway, remove any nonessential items. Paperwork, out-of-season clothing, toys, and games should all be packed first. You can also turn this into an opportunity to sell, discard, or donate items that aren't needed. As a result, the home will be more appealing and the move will be easier.
3. Schedule Repairs
Minor issues like scratches, water stains, scuffed floors, and leaky taps can make it harder to sell a house, as viewers will have to factor in the cost of scheduling repairs themselves if they make an offer.
Even if the cost of repairs is minimal, this can result in lower offers, so make a list of any issues that need to be addressed and have them repaired before staging the home. Making small repairs and touch-ups will demonstrate to buyers that you’ve taken maintenance seriously and reduce the likelihood of distracting them from the space and its features.
When you’re ready to sell a house, count on the home staging experts at
REthink Luxury to bring out its best features for interested buyers. Located in Chattanooga, TN, and serving Hamilton County, the team at this real estate agency will use the latest marketing and decorating research to stage your home. Visit them
online to learn more about this team or call
(423) 653-0705 to schedule an appointment.
