3 Tips For Sellers When Staging Your Home (Easy and Cost-Effective!)

Published on 2024-07-26
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3 Tips and Tricks to Staging Your Home For Sale (Easy and Cost-effective!)


Selling your home can be a stressful process, especially when life is feeling a bit chaotic. One facet of selling a home that often gets left out, or is somewhat of a grey area for sellers, is staging your home to help attract buyers and get the best possible price. While there are many things you can do to help increase the value of your home and add a little extra appeal to the right buyer, we’ve put together three very achievable and realistic things you can do to easily increase the appeal of your home. And no, these things will not break the bank or take much time!


Time to declutter!


Think of staging your home as though you are trying to create a clean slate for the next homeowner. A clean palette for future owners to start fresh. Maximalism and clutter can easily cloud a potential buyer’s vision of the house becoming their own. Essentially, less is more when it comes to staging a home for sale. That’s not to say get rid of all decor and accents in the home because these things can help set the tone, but rather packing any visual clutter ahead of time and storing it in a storage unit can pay dividends and help buyers imagine their own belongings and lifestyle in the home. Clean, tidy, and neutral is the way to go when lending your home to the eyes of potential buyers!



A little paint goes a long way…


One thing that can turn potential buyers away are bold colours that require a certain taste to admire. Meaning, neutral colours tend to set a calming and imaginative environment that any buyer can envision themselves living in. While we can certainly appreciate personal touches around the home and the creativity that goes into making a home your own, when it comes to selling you will have a much easier time if you make the visuals more appealing to the masses. 



Minimize anything that’s too personal…


When a potential buyer comes through your house they are seeing it from their point of view with a lifetime of their own experiences. This means that household items that are strictly personal, such as family photos, should be packed away to leave the illusion that anyone could live there. Simple artwork, structures or decor that possess a very neutral interpretation are best when staging your home to sell. Again, opt for neutrality so as to not turn away potential buyers who have a more difficult time visualizing beyond anything too personal.