8 Essential Tips for Staging Your Home to Sell

Tip 1: Declutter and Depersonalize

Nobody wants to see clutter when viewing a home. Clutter can take the focus away from the property, instead giving attention to the unorganized odds and ends throughout the house. If it’s bad enough, clutter can even be the main lasting impression of the property, which isn’t ideal for making a sale.

Similarly, depersonalizing helps potential buyers put themselves in the home, imagining how they’ll live there, rather than giving them the feeling like they’re walking around in someone else home. 

Both of these tasks require organization, storage, and possibly deciding what to get rid of. Staging a home to sell means taking the time to remove anything that will detract from making a sale, and clutter and too much personalization are prime targets.

Tip 2: Deep Clean Every Room

This tip is simple yet one of the most important things you can do when staging your home. Deep cleaning goes beyond the basics and aims to remove every stain or blemish throughout the different services in the property. 

It’s usually well worth hiring professional cleaners to handle the deep cleaning; they know how to remove different stains on specific surfaces. 

Other than making a good impression, why does this matter? A deep-cleaned property better represents its current condition, as some cleanable issues can often look like permanent damage. 

Tip 3: Neutralize Your Decor

Neutral decor is not only widely popular, it’s also less intrusive and takes attention away from the property. Bold wallpaper or paint colours can be great for living in the home, but they can be eye-sore and off-putting to potential future owners. 

We’re not just looking at paint, though. Staging the home involves a wide range of decisions focused on making the home as appealing as possible. Making decisions based on prioritizing neutral decor goes far in helping viewers visualize themselves living on the property.

Tip 4: Maximize Curb Appeal

Most people know curb appeal is a significant factor in selling a home — it’s the impression your home makes when a potential buyer pulls up. 

How can you make a strong first impression? Landscaping, exterior paint, and outdoor decor all convey a specific mood, paving the way for the interior. Put plenty of thought into how you can update or refine these elements to make the first impression you’re after. 

Tip 5: Highlight Key Features

What amenities or attributes make your home stand out from other similar properties? Staging should focus on highlighting these features, making them draw in home buyers' attention, and making sure they remember these features days or weeks later.

Achieving this goal will certainly vary based on the specific feature you want to highlight. For example, if you have a room with a pool table and bar, go the extra mile to give the impression of being a real bar with neon signs and comfortable stools.

Define the key features you want to highlight, and then start brainstorming how you can make them stand out. 

Tip 6: Arrange Furniture for Flow and Space

You can take the same furniture in a living room and arrange it so the space seems small or cramped, or arrange it differently and make the room look spacious and inviting. 

Optimizing furniture arrangement can certainly be challenging, especially if you have no experience, but you can still bring in the experts to arrange furniture to make every room appealing. Don’t let furniture obstructing pathways or views make you lose the sale.

Tip 7: Update Lighting

Lighting can make all the difference in creating the right mood for a home. When staging, look to use layer lighting like table lamps or task lighting to showcase the ambiance you want to create.

However, you can also look at updating light fixtures to complement the decor and give off the right impression. Evaluate your current lighting and compare it to the latest trends in interior decor and consumer expectations.

Tip 8: Stage for the Buyer

Don’t stage for yourself; stage for the types of buyers who will be interested in the property. This can be more challenging than it seems, as it’s natural to make decor decisions based on your own preferences. 

Yet, you need to look more broadly at design trends, recent home sales in the area, and any preferences you can infer about people looking at your type of property.

This tip might be the most challenging on this list, as stepping outside of what you think looks good is a big challenge. That’s why working with experts can go far in helping you appeal to the buyer and close the sale, rather than simply redecorating your home based on what you like. 

Work with Flowers Team Real Estate for Professional Staging Services

We’ve explored ten key ways you can stage your home to sell at a great price and as quickly as possible. Take the time to declutter, clean, and optimize every aspect of the home to highlight its special attributes and allow prospective buyers to imagine themselves living in the property.

Need some help staging your home for making a sale? Flowers Team has years of experience staging homes to make a strong impression and create an emotional attachment that leads to making the sale. 

We’re ready to help you maximize the effects of the above tips and so much more — contact our real estate experts today to get started.