Getting Ready to Show Your Home
The home sales process requires open houses or individual home showings. Before you show your home, it requires staging, says realtor Claudette Schwartz. Home staging leverages the latest home decor trends and psychology to create an atmosphere of warmth, coziness, and positive ambiance.
Choose a Few Key Antique Pieces
Instead of populating your rooms with off-the-furniture-showroom furnishings, use a few inherited items. Your grandparents’ much-loved entry table welcoming guests in the foyer sets the proper tone. Vintage and antique furnishings dot living rooms and dens throughout the country, so use this growing trend in your home staging to make potential home buyers feel more at home.
Update Your Floorplan
For more than a decade, open floor plans ruled the roost. Now, however, homeowners have returned to featuring walls and doors, so they can enter a room, shut the door, and achieve privacy. Add a wall or install a sliding door, such as a barn door style, to create divided spaces out of one large area, says Better Homes and Gardens (BHG). In the 21st century, homeowners learned the importance of private spaces when COVID-19 forced everyone to work from home during sequestration.
Paint the Interior
Home decor now focuses on brown, green, and blue as the favored paint and wallpaper colors, according to BHG and Staged by Design. Bring chocolate brown into your decor with a feature wall that uses woodgrain wallpaper or wallboard. Paint the bedrooms a light blue, navy, or sapphire, and consider a woodsy green for the dining room. Both neutral colors and jewel tones moved out of vogue in the 2020s.
Make It Cozy
For years, home staging consisted of creating a home layout that looked like it had appeared in a magazine. That’s gone out of style now. Instead, opt for a meticulously clean home with comfortable furnishings that invites potential home buyers to curl up and enjoy the coffee your Realtor made.
Avoid Matching Every Accessory and Furnishing
Mix the design styles by tossing a pillow your mother-in-law embroidered on the sofa with other throw pillows. A Mid-century modern coffee table could work well with a Victorian rocking chair. Don’t fear matching patterns and colors with various furniture styles. The appropriately staged home welcomes potential home buyers.
Update the Utility/Laundry Room
If you have the money for a quick renovation before selling your home, transform your laundry or utility room into a mudroom. This room welcomes visitors, providing them with a spot to ditch their dirty shoes and hang wet coats. Everyone uses the mudroom, and siting the mudroom in the laundry room makes sense because your family can toss dirty clothes and shoes directly into the washing machine. In most cases, this only requires an entry door to the laundry room and a built-in bench to sit on while removing shoes and wet coats.
Ask Your Realtor for Home Staging Help
Realtors keep abreast of the latest in home staging, so ask yours for help getting your home ready to show. Home buyers want to see a welcoming abode that they can easily envision themselves living in. Create that ambiance by properly staging your home.