4 Quick Staging Techniques You Can Implement to Sell Your Home Fast
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Our suburban home’s remodel is complete and now it’s time to list it! Before we start accepting potential buyers into our houses, there are five things I always want to make sure I do. These are techniques I’ve used over the past decade to make sure my homes – the ones I’m actually living in – hit the real estate market with gusto and sell within a few days. Today, I’m sharing those techniques with you so you can implement them in your own homes.
Don’t worry. You don’t have to completely redecorate to make your home appealing to buyers. These are easy and manageable on any budget!
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I’ve bought and sold five homes over the past decade and each time, I’ve learned something new about home staging. Usually, this knowledge comes from the homes I’ve toured in the hopes of buying. Typically, I walk into a home and find at least one thing that grosses me out. There’s either an overflowing bathroom trashcan or a kitchen counter filled with clutter and crumbs and I recoil a little.
Taking these annoyances into account, I’ve compiled my own list of items I want to make sure I do before we have a photographer out to take photos for our real estate ad. I also continue the list by making them easy to implement in our everyday lives, as our home is being toured.
GIVE EACH SPACE A PURPOSE + THEN HINT AT IT
but don’t over-stage it.
There’s nothing more annoying to me than browsing real estate ads and seeing an open laptop on a desk, a bathtub filled with bubbles, or a dining table with a full tablescape. If you really think about it, it’s creepy. It’s like a family had been here just five minutes before but then were raptured just before you walked in. Or worse, you’re intruding on their lives.
These little staging techniques are also really taste-specific and probably won’t do much to help your buyers see themselves in these spaces. So I recommend you avoid them altogether. Want your buyers to feel like they can unwind in the master bathroom? You don’t have to fill the tub. I place a decorative container of bath salts on the side of the tub, alongside a jar of fancy soaps, and an unlit candle.
This evokes the same feelings of relaxation for the buyer but because it’s decor, rather than an action, it won’t feel