Sell Your Home Fast: 5 Expert Staging Tips

If you are planning to put your house on the market soon and selling your property quickly, you need to profoundly commit to marketing your home. To successfully market your home, you need to transform your home into a place that potential buyers can easily imagine as their own. Staging a home for sale is not a new concept, but it is a practice that has gained popularity with a more challenging market. Set the stage for success with these 5 expert tips for marketing and enhancing your home, and watch the results pour in.

1. Start With Your Floors

Before selling your home, ideally the floors should be freshly refinished throughout your home. At the bare minimum, all the floors should be thoroughly cleaned, and carpets should be steam cleaned. Beautiful homes are often overlooked by potential buyers who are distracted by shoddy hardwood floors and grimy tiles. If you cannot afford to invest in refinishing your hardwood floor, stylish area rugs strategically placed throughout your home can boost appeal.

2. Boost Curb Appeal

You never get a second chance at a first impression. If you want to sell your home quickly, ensuring your home looks attractive and well maintained before stepping inside is a necessity. Many potential buyers thinking of touring your home will often do a quick drive-by first, often deciding on the spot if the home is worth looking at. Ensure your home is enticing to potential buyers by following these tips:

• Plant beautiful flowers and attractive greenery 
• Power wash front windows
• Repaint the porch and ensure the porch is in excellent condition
• Hang easy-to-read house numbers
• Refinish the walkway 
• Mow the lawn, and reseed or add fresh mulch as necessary 
• Power wash the siding and walkways

3. Get Your House Sparkling Clean

This is one of the easiest yet most overlooked staging tips which entices potential buyers. Every surface in your home should sparkle, from shining floors and gleaming windows, to meticulously cleaned counters and scrubbed grout. Hiring professional cleaners for a large home is often necessary.

Furthermore, all clutter needs to be cleared away. This step is not easy, and often requires utilizing offsite storage, but it is extremely important. Clean and luminous surfaces, floors, cupboards and closets create more space in the eyes of potential buyers. Clutter is unattractive and distracting; expert stagers recommend removing everything nonessential or unappealing.

4. Style Your Dining Room Table

The dining room is often overlooked when decorating a home. A large and empty dining room table often looks unappealing and dull. Oversize arrangements often appear excessively regal and proper, so try lining up a series of smaller arrangements down the center of the table instead. 

5. Choose Sophisticated Neutral Tones

Rich, mid-tone neutrals like Mocha and Beige are universally appealing and create a calm and inviting mood in any room. Expert stagers recommend ditching the bright and trendy colors for something more timeless and refined. Neutral tones make an elegant backdrop which beautifully pulls everything together.