Are you getting ready to sell your home? Staging the home will give you certain advantage in this competitive market and add 10-15 percent more to the price you expect for your home. Hiring a professional can be costly – something between $50 and $150 per hour. Fortunately, cheap home-staging options are also there that will cost next to nothing.
Home stage your interiors for buyer appeal
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Check out these tips:
Clean your Home Before Staging
Clean the house, especially the kitchen and the bathrooms. No buyer will like to see coatings of grease, splattered sauce, spilled drinks, or piles of crumbs in their potential new home. Similarly, clean each spot of your bathroom including the spot behind toilet, sink drain, and the corners of the tub. Make everything look new and sparky.
Please the senses of homebuyers
Another important thing is to keep your house free from bad smell. Your home will smell bad if you do not clean it regularly. Apart from that, pets, kids, and habit of smoking are also responsible for creating odors. So, take steps like burning scented candles, baking a nice smelling cake, or using aromatic cleansing agents to deodorize indoors.
Declutter your home to make your home feel larger
Declutter
What can be more inexpensive than removing trashy and unnecessary things from your house? Clutter distracts the buyers and makes the house look congested and small. So, remove the trashes and rearrange the existing things to create enough storage space. Do not toss everything into the closet because buyers may see your closet space too.
Cut your Expenses: Stage Selectively
There is no need to stage the entire house. Cut your expense and labor by staging only the main living areas – living room, kitchen, bathroom, and one of the bedrooms. If there is any awkward space in the house, you should stage it to show its possible use to the buyers. Leave the other spaces and the basement empty.
Furnish your home with attractive appointments
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Furnish the Place Tactically
Be creative and resourceful when it comes to furnish the house. Use an inflatable air mattress to stage a bedroom that does not have a bed. Just put a bed sheet and some pillows on it and it will look like a regular bed. You can also borrow a few pieces of neutral furniture from your friends and family to stage the home.
The great way to plan a budget staging is to focus on big-picture improvements and refurbish the spaces that will create difference in the selling price.
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