There’s a reason almost every good real estate agent will stage a home. Whether they opt to do it themselves or hire a staging company, staging is one of the most useful and effective ways to help sell a property.
With a few simple tricks and a bit of hard work, staging can help any space transform to feel like a modern home. More importantly, staging is a results-driven tactic that can help you sell your home quicker and for more money.
If you’re getting ready to list your home on the market, ensure you’re prepared for the open house by reading through our five staging tips on how to sell a modern home below.
Start Outside
First impressions mean a lot when it comes to a house, so putting some effort into your home’s curb appeal is a very important step to staging.
One of the most efficient outdoor staging tactics you can do is to rent a power washer. It will help you easily wash away any excess dirt, mud, and grime on your entranceway, flowerbeds, stonework, siding, roof, or anywhere else.
Repainting things like walls, shutters, and doors will make your home feel fresh and new. Additionally, replacing house numbers, outdoor lighting, and buying a new welcome mat will go a long way to feeling welcoming.
Of course, getting the lawnmower out and doing some weeding is also highly advised.
Declutter Everywhere
This step is a staging non-negotiable. By decluttering your interior, your home becomes more visible and easier for potential buyers to get inspired about what they might want to do with the space.
Reduce and re-organize your furniture, especially larger items, to make your home feel less cramped and awkward for buyers to navigate. While this may call for renting a temporary storage locker or leaning on a gracious relative, it will pay off by making your home feel light and airy.
Always remember to take down more personal items like family photos and children’s artwork — buyers want to be able to see themselves living in the space from the get-go.
Clean Your Kitchen and Bathrooms
These rooms tend to get a lot of use in a home, so naturally, they’ll start to reflect that over time. However, a messy kitchen and dirty bathroom are enough to turn even the most inspired buyers away.
Start off with cleaning and decluttering your kitchen and bathroom paraphernalia from spaces like cupboards, countertops, and medicine cabinets. Then give each of them a good scrub-down, including your kitchen backsplash and bathroom mirrors.
Scrub out the grout in any tiling or re-caulk where necessary, and give your faucets a deep clean with CLR, or just easily replace any older and corroded taps for new ones.
Hang More Mirrors
One useful trick to really open up a room is to hang more mirrors. By placing additional mirrors on your walls, you can instantly brighten up a space by providing more reflective light while also making it appear larger.
Tastefully placed mirrors are a great trick for making smaller spaces feel less cramped as well — just make sure they’re all gleaming clean!
Include an Office Space
With the mass trend of office jobs transitioning into ‘working from home’ situations this year, it’s more valuable than ever to show that your modern home is capable of catering to those who need a home office.
Whether you already have a designated home office space or not, it’s definitely worthwhile to get creative and transition any ‘extra’ rooms (like spare bedrooms or storage spaces) into a home office.
Don’t feel that you need to spend a fortune on office supplies or a new desk, just organize items in a way that will plant the idea in a potential buyer’s mind that they could use this space to accommodate their 9 to 5.
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