5 Tips for Home Staging on a Budget When Selling Your Home

Staging is a very important and cost effective of the home selling process these day. Staging your home to show off its qualities can only add to final selling price. When staging your home for sale, home seller want to take into consideration as you work your way through each room of your home. Here are 5 tips for home staging on a budget when selling your home in Arizona.

Tip 1: De-Personalize
Buyers need to picture themselves in the house – not you. That wedding photo may mean the world to you, but to the buyers it’s a distraction that prevents them from seeing a home for their family.

Clear closets of unnecessary clutter, and organize to maximize the amount of open storage space you are showing off to potential buyers. Use boxes stacked together to hold and hide the clutter. Using matching hangers for clothes - hangers are inexpensive, so splurging on higher quality hangers to replace free wire hangers from dry cleaner will modernize your closets with visual impact and a more luxurious feel.

Tip 2: Maximize
De-clutter and maximize the space in your home. Closets packed tight with all your clothes make a place look like it lacks closet space. Consider temporarily storing the overflow offsite.

A quick and inexpensive way to improve the appeal of your bedroom is to use gender neutral colors when touching up paint jobs and re-accessorizing in order to have the widest possible appeal. Color coordinate where possible, walls, bedspread, curtains should have a clear theme to their colors if possible. Adding a headboard to the bed provides a visual focal point and add sophistication, without necessarily break the bank. Adding a few decorative items creates focal points to the room, especially at eye level and on top of dressers.

Tip 3: Sanitize
This tip is the easiest and cheapest way to stage your home – just clean it. A sink full of dirty dishes is as unappealing to you as it would to a buyer. It is well worth the elbow grease in cleaning floors, walls, baseboards, ceiling fans and windows.

Clear countertops of everything but the essentials (soap dish, hand towel, etc) to make the space look more open and larger. Putting white bath and hand towels on display can give the bathroom an open, spa-like feel at very little cost.

Grimy shower doors? Scour them with a solution of one part muriatic acid (available at hardware stores) and 10 parts water to make them look like new and save some money.

Tip 4: Modernize
Unless your home has exceptional period built-ins, all home could benefit from some updating. If someone feels the home is dated, they will reflect that feeling in a lower offer. Consider simple changes like swapping out gold fixtures for nickel or chrome.

Modernize your dated cabinets, they can be touched up for less than $200 with a coat of new wood stain or even a good sanding and a coat of paint. Replacing brass or wooden cabinet hardware with brushed silver or stainless steel is an effective way of updating dated cabinets as well without breaking the bank.

Clean your refrigerator, sink, inside of your oven and de-clutter the kitchen cabinets and drawers, buyers are looking. Rugs, such as people put in front of the sink, tend to stop the eye and break up a space. When staging a kitchen, you will make the floor space appear larger by removing rugs.

Tip 5: Neutralize
Color can make or break a buyers interest in your home. You may love that shocking red wall, but all the potential buyer sees is a great deal of painting in their future because red clashes with their style. Painting is one of the most inexpensive ways to change a look of a home.

Set the table! This creates points of visual interest in a room that can easily be boring after usual depersonalizing and de-cluttering. Be careful of overstaging, you don’t need to set out every piece of china. Create a focal point by adding a vase with fresh flowers to the center to the table and remove any extra leaves from the table to maximize available space.

Window treatments can be used to make a room feel bigger. On low ceiling rooms, hang drapes all the way up to the ceiling on either side of a window frame which will make windows seem larger and visually make ceilings appear taller. Use neutral color curtains and thin rods to hold them.

Lightness is a major source of living room appeal for buyers. Make sure the shades are open before potential buyers come through and stage the room with light colored furniture enhances the effect and can make the space look larger. In especially larger or empty living rooms, a strategically placed plant can create a focal point that draws the eye.

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