Best Staging Tips to Sell Your Home For the Most Money

Sellers worry they won’t get the offers their home deserves. They want to ensure potential buyers see their home for all its worth and make offers that reflect their home’s value. Preparing your home to sell is a necessary part of the selling process. But don’t worry, preparing your home to sell can be fun and rewarding!

This article will discuss tips and tricks from professional home stagers. You will learn where to focus your energy when preparing your home to sell, how to increase the market value of your home, and what not to worry about. Follow these staging tips and tricks to sell your home quickly and increase its market value:

Organize

If you plan to show your home while you are living in it or while your belongings are in it, you will need to organize like a professional. This is the perfect time to depersonalize your home, too. Take down family photos or replace them with generic paintings instead.

A general rule of thumb is to cut the belongings in your closet by half! Think about boutique displays. The kind set up to look like a chic closet. You want your closet to look spacious, almost curated. Remove all empty hangers and store them away somewhere unseen, like the garage or a storage unit. 

Watch Marie Kondo, YouTube how to fold clothing properly, and donate everything you can without emptying your house completely. 

Clean

You are about to clean your home as you have never cleaned before. After you have gone through your belongings and organized them, you are ready to clean! Not only will you do a ‘traditional’ clean as you do all the time, but you will also need to consider:

• Changing your air filters 

• Fishing Drains

• Cleaning Ovens

• Cleaning the microwave

• Cleaning the garbage disposal properly

• Professionally cleaning the carpets

• Washing walls

• Polishing baseboards 

• Dusting top shelves and room fans

• Checking the dryer vent 

• Windows

• The insides of cabinets and drawers

• Checking the rain gutters

• Disposing of insects and vermin (calling a pest control professional)

Home Improvements

One of the most important features of a home is the kitchen, partly because it is the most expensive room in the house for buyers to remodel. Preparing a home to sell for the best market price means sellers will need to make a small investment back into their property.

Having the cabinets painted is much more inexpensive than having them replaced. Consider a new coat of paint if your kitchen cabinets need it.

The 2013 Home Feature Preference NAR report concluded that buyers considered kitchen appliances and an eat-in arrangement the most important features of a new home. 

Curb Appeal

Increase the curb appeal with a fresh paint job and clean landscaping. Trim hedges and trees, powerwash the driveway, replace old vinyl, and you will definitely receive higher offers on your home.

Hire a Professional

It’s hard to know exactly where to invest in your property before selling. A professional home stager can tell you if you need to paint your cabinets or if they can be spruced up without the extra effort. 

Home stagers are a worthwhile investment. You might think a specific feature in your home is undesirable and needs extensive remodeling, but a home stager knows what sells. They take the stress by staging the home themselves while offering you valuable advice on what needs updating and how to go about updating features.

Home stagers work with your budget and only offer advice and services within this threshold.

Furniture

Large or awkward furniture will make a room seem smaller. Remove extra chairs and furniture that don’t add to the room’s appearance.

A good home staging professional has an inventory of furniture that can take a home from looking old, dingy, or just awkward, to light, modern, and stylish. 

Light

Remember to let the light in! Remove heavy, dark curtains, especially for photos. Consider light, transparent curtains to frame the windows. Natural light is a desirable aspect for home buyers!  You can keep bedding, paint, and decor light to add to the appearance of brightness.

The Take-Away:

Preparing your home to sell is both an energy and monetary investment. You don’t have to do it all in one day! This is a process of preparation, ensuring an increase in the value of your home. You can do it yourself, but you don’t have to!

Home staging professionals take the headache out of the selling process. You might save more money by hiring a home stager than trying to navigate everything yourself!