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When you are trying to sell your home, you want to make sure that any potential buyers, as well as real estate agents, see your house at its absolute best. The process of home staging is one where you make sure you accent the positives about your home even if that means doing a little physical labor to make some aspects of your home better.
There are places and things in your house that you will need to fix, move around or completely re-do in order to ensure you are getting the full value possible for your home. Here are a few areas you will want to focus on to increase the sale value of your home:
1) Outside Entrance: They say you only get one chance to make a great first impression and that is the entrance to your house. How your house looks from the curb is called Curb Appeal and that alone can make or break your sale value. Having a warm and inviting outside entrance with flowers, neatly trimmed shrubbery and a beautiful front door speaks volumes of the inside of the house. Bright, glossy colors on the entrance are suggested for this effect.
2) Clutter: Many of us have more stuff than we need and we live like this on a day-to-day basis; however, when you are trying to sell your house you aren’t trying to sell your stuff, just the house. Less is more in this case. If you haven’t used a thing in three months, box it up and put it in storage until you move. If you just can’t bear to part with something, then get creative about how you store or display it.
3) Furniture: Nothing can make a large space seem small like having too much furniture in it. The potential buyers won’t be able to see the house and how it flows; all they will see is all your furniture. Consider storage for some of the extra pieces you don’t really use and rearrange what you have to give the house a better flow. Also, keep your furniture off the walls, it does not make the room look larger, it makes the walls seem closer.
4) Light: Make sure you let a lot of light into the house as it makes rooms seem brighter and larger. Pull back the drapes and make sure the windows are good and clean. You may want to consider getting blinds that allow light to diffuse into the house as opposed to bare windows. No heavy drapery needed just some light and functional drapes that block some light but not all.
5) Re-assign Rooms: Do you have a junk room or perhaps a room with nothing it in but a dusty stationary bike? Move that stuff out of the room and remake the room as an office or a playroom for kids or something else to give it more overall appeal. People like to imagine what they can do in a room and you can give them some sly suggestions.
There are still more things you can do to increase the sale value of your home but these are a few ways that will get you a great head start!
There are places and things in your house that you will need to fix, move around or completely re-do in order to ensure you are getting the full value possible for your home. Here are a few areas you will want to focus on to increase the sale value of your home:
1) Outside Entrance: They say you only get one chance to make a great first impression and that is the entrance to your house. How your house looks from the curb is called Curb Appeal and that alone can make or break your sale value. Having a warm and inviting outside entrance with flowers, neatly trimmed shrubbery and a beautiful front door speaks volumes of the inside of the house. Bright, glossy colors on the entrance are suggested for this effect.
2) Clutter: Many of us have more stuff than we need and we live like this on a day-to-day basis; however, when you are trying to sell your house you aren’t trying to sell your stuff, just the house. Less is more in this case. If you haven’t used a thing in three months, box it up and put it in storage until you move. If you just can’t bear to part with something, then get creative about how you store or display it.
3) Furniture: Nothing can make a large space seem small like having too much furniture in it. The potential buyers won’t be able to see the house and how it flows; all they will see is all your furniture. Consider storage for some of the extra pieces you don’t really use and rearrange what you have to give the house a better flow. Also, keep your furniture off the walls, it does not make the room look larger, it makes the walls seem closer.
4) Light: Make sure you let a lot of light into the house as it makes rooms seem brighter and larger. Pull back the drapes and make sure the windows are good and clean. You may want to consider getting blinds that allow light to diffuse into the house as opposed to bare windows. No heavy drapery needed just some light and functional drapes that block some light but not all.
5) Re-assign Rooms: Do you have a junk room or perhaps a room with nothing it in but a dusty stationary bike? Move that stuff out of the room and remake the room as an office or a playroom for kids or something else to give it more overall appeal. People like to imagine what they can do in a room and you can give them some sly suggestions.
There are still more things you can do to increase the sale value of your home but these are a few ways that will get you a great head start!
