Interior Decorating – Home Staging

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The open house serves one purpose. It is to get potential buyers into your home and enticed by all the positives. To make sure they have a positive experience, you need to make sure the home is going to shine for them.

A home is where life happens. That means it is hardly spic and span most of the time. Once you decide to sell, the home is no longer a part of your life. It is simply a product that must be moved off the shelf. That means tuning it up.

The eyes are the pathway to the soul. In a home, the windows serve the same purpose, but outwards. If a window has a great view, make sure the blinds are wide open. If it does not, go in the opposite direction.

Every family produces lots of trash. In contrast, products should not come with trash. Your home is now a product. Remove all trash in the home. Yes, from trash bins. Also, make sure the bins in the home do not stink to high heaven.

The shower doors are often a closely inspected item. Do not just clean them. Go the extra step. Clean them and then use a window squeegee to finish them off. You want them to look brand spanking new.

The toilets are another area that will get attention. Clean them thoroughly. Make sure to get the area behind the area where they tilt up and the outer section of the bowl where it meets the floor. The seat should be left down.

For some reason, the focus point of every home seems to be the kitchen. Yours should sparkle. This is a critical room, so clean everything like you have never cleaned before. Bake something that smells tasty to appeal to the sense of smell.

If you need a priority list for cleaning the kitchen, start at the stove. Top to bottom, inside and out, it must appear to be not clean, but new. Buyers know this is where the action occurs every day and will inspect it closely.

The second area of focus is the frig. In daily life, it can be difficult to keep clean, but now we are selling a product. Clean it from top to bottom. Pull everything out, remove the shelves and have at it.

At this point, the home should be pretty clean, but there are a couple of things left that still clutter it up. What? Your family and pets. The open house is a period where they are forbidden to be in the home. Give them the boot.

I cannot emphasize enough that you must focus on the fact you are selling a product, not your home. Think of selling an old car. What did you do? You cleaned it up as much as possible and treated it as a product. Do the same with your home.

Source: Real Estate

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