Home Staging Tips

Below are some general home staging tips to scratch the surface of what home sellers should consider doing to their for-sale home.  For other advice, may we suggest going to the before and after section, discussion forums, real estate professionals’ blogs, taking the home seller readiness quiz and downloading the 101 energized Tips To Make Your Home Sale Ready.

Home stage to add value.  Home stage to sell quickly.  Home stage to reach your goals.  Start by following these home staging tips:

Home Staging Tips #1 - Master Bedroom

Make the master bedroom look and feel like a retreat, replace bedding, eliminate extra clutter, decorate matching bedside tables simply and elegantly and store any exercise equipment and office furniture.

Home Staging Tips #2 – Closets

Show buyers that there is a lot of room in your closets by removing 50% of what is currently there, add high wattage lighting to make the space look bigger, get “stuff” of the closet floor, organize clothes by type and color  and use matching hangers.

 Home Staging Tips #3 – Bathrooms

Clean your bathrooms from the baseboards to the ceiling, make your bathtub look soothing, decorate it like one in a luxury hotel, replace towels with new luxurious towels for showings, keep toilet lids down, and hide any evidence that you get ready in the bathroom.

Home Staging Tips # 4 - Remodeling

Know which remodels pay for themselves, get advice from a REALTOR® and/or stager in order to know what remodel changes buyers want, and make sure changes look professionally done.

 Home Staging Tips #5 – Cabinets

Update your cabinet hardware, clean, repair, re-stain and/or re-paint worn cabinets, and replace cabinet doors if necessary.

 Home Staging Tips #6 – Countertops

Make countertops look new by cleaning them better than ever cleaned and if they are worn or dated, replace them.  Replacing counters is one of the best investments you can make.

 Home Staging Tips #7 – Dining Room

If you have a formal dining room, present it as such.  Also, put a new tasteful centerpiece and place settings on dining room table to showcase the dining room.

 Home Staging Tips #8 – Door

Since the front door is one of the best things your buyers will see, make sure it looks clean and new.   Compare your front door to other front doors in the neighborhood and make sure yours looks better.  Update doors by replacing hardware and adding a kick plate if necessary.

 Home Staging Tips #9 – General Tips

Clean light fixtures, decorate fireplace mantel simply and consistent with fixtures in room, de-personalize the entire house, hide all laundry, clean out refrigerator, empty garbage cans daily, remove pets while showing a home, and more…

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These home staging tips are 9 of hundreds on the site.  We hope you'll take the time to learn from the site, ask home staging and other questions, and contact a home stager and other real estate professional when it comes time to prepare your home for a sale.  When it comes down to it, home staging tips are only as good as the way they are executed.  You can learn a lot from the tips on this site, but make sure you follow-through on them very well.  Following through on these home selling tips will be well worth the investment.