Selling a house is no easy task. You have to manage real estate agents and banks while also looking for a new place to live. Plus, you still need to make sure your house is attractive to potential buyers. Keeping your house looking good may sound difficult, especially when you have kids in the home. But helping your home become an appealing place where people instantly feel comfortable is literally like setting a stage for buyers.
Learn about the following six home-staging strategies when you have a large family.
Repurpose Unused Rooms
If you have a messy room full of forgotten junk or your children’s toys, consider making changes so that these spaces add value to your property. A stairwell nook with an armchair can become a cozy reading spot, while a small room with the right desk and chair could turn into a study. Add a thin mat to the floor in a room and turn an empty space into a meditation room.
Maintain an Appealing Exterior
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The exterior look of your house should be as important as the interior decoration. Potential homebuyers should have a good first impression before they step inside your home. Make sure you mow the lawn, trim bushes, and pick up any debris around the garden.
Clear Out the Clutter
Many professional home stagers will try to convince you to move at least 30 percent of your household possessions out of your home. Their reasoning is that the house looks bigger and will be more attractive to buyers. To prepare for selling your home, you may want to start boxing up seasonal items or temporarily renting a storage unit to keep the clutter away.
Set a Comfortable Temperature in Your Home
You don’t want potential home buyers to arrive at your place and either shiver or sweat profusely as they tour your home. A few hours before the visitors arrive, adjust the settings on your HVAC system to maintain a pleasant temperature so that guests feel comfortable and have a great experience during your showing.
Make Your Living Spaces Look Clean
You don’t have to deep clean your house every time someone comes to have a look at your home. Instead, you can create a strategy for each room where some cosmetic external changes can help your rooms look amazing. Deep down, though, only you will know that you still have dust under the sofa or crumbs behind the cabinet doors.
Remove Your Valuables From View
Unfortunately, individuals can take advantage of house viewings to steal valuable items from a household. Take expensive jewellery and small electronic devices, such as your kids’ tablets and smartphones, and put them away when you are showing your home.
All in all, home staging is much like using your imagination and pretending. You’re creating an environment where potential homebuyers can see themselves living in your home. If you follow the above strategies and always present a desirable home, you may likely sell your house quicker than you probably expected.
What do you think of these ideas? What are your home staging tips? Can you add more to this list?
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As you want the readers to add more to the list, I think that ‘home sale and leaseback’ plans can be a great option to attract buyers. You will definitely not get the full value out of your property because you want to live in it as well, but long-term investors will get ready to spend on your property. I know it is a different scenario, but it makes sense. How do you feel?