A Few Quick Tips for Staging Your Home This Fall

If you are going to sell your home this winter, it’s extra
important that your property is properly staged. I have a few
tips to help you today.





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As we head into the fall and winter, it’s extra important that your
home is perfectly staged for the market. 

First of all, work on your curb appeal. There is a lot of
pent-up demand in our market. As soon as the “For Sale” sign goes
up in the yard, buyers will come up to see the house. Consider
getting new house numbers, adding a nice welcome mat, painting the
door, painting the exterior of the house, or power washing the
house. 

Next, what is the ambiance like inside the home? Any dark
rooms need to be brightened up with extra lamps. Turn on lights
during showings and add a soft scent like vanilla to your home.
Just like one or two candles, though. If you have a whole bunch of
candles, it may seem like you are trying to cover up a
smell. 

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Your home needs to feel warm and inviting.

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Another thing you want to do is make sure that you can see
the floors in order to show the groundwork. It’s fairly common for
sellers to have a lot of furniture, and our goal is to open up the
space. Rugs can make a space feel smaller, too, especially if you
have a rug on top of a rug. We’ll take the rugs out of the room and
take away some furniture to open up the room and make it
brighter. 

You’ll also want to emphasize any architectural designs. You
may have an odd space under the stairs that can be used as a
reading nook, an artist’s retreat, or a storage space for toys.
Show that space off. 

Finally, consider this scenario. If you are going out to look at a
home this December, we all know that it’s going to be dark outside
here in Colorado by 5 o’clock. So it’s dark and cold out, and you
go to look at two houses by the same builder with the same floor
plan on the same block. One house is vacant, dark, and cold. The
other has been lit up, staged, and really feels like home. Which
one would you pick? 

Obviously, you would be more inclined to purchase the staged home.
A buyer would be willing to pay more money for the staged home than
the one next to it, even though they are the exact
same. 

That’s why it’s so important to make sure your home is properly
staged when selling this time of year. 

If you have any other questions about selling your home or would
like to learn more about our current market, just give me a call or
send me an email. I would be happy to help you!