Staged To sell

Fast and Affordable Fixes.
Do you know how much time it takes for a home to make impression in the eyes of buyers? The first 1 minute. If you walk in a home to buy and you can not see yourself living in that home, would you buy it?? Answer is no. Now a days Real Estate market is very competitive. Here are few ideas that will do wonders and by the way, staged homes sell 6.9% more than the homes that are not staged.

1) Make an Entrance.
Dress with Paint, furniture arrangements, art and accessories can be all carefully designed to highlight the home’s strengths. Whether you’re designing to sell or designing to dwell, here’s how the home-staging pros get that "I have to have it!"The outside of your home is the first thing guests see. It should be clean, you can put some tiles or bricks to make way and the path can be made prominent by putting some planters with or with out plants. With plants is + point.

2) Clean Clutter.
Admit it, this is the house you have been living in for a long time and don't have heart to throw stuff out. Your Treasure is someones Trash . Take3 big boxes label them TRASH TREASURE and CHARITY. If you have much stuff so, put these boxes outside the room you are battling, and put stuff in front of those boxes. SEPARATE trash from treasure and treasure from charity.Treasure is obviously going in but with a style. I mean with some pre planned space to live.

3) Less is Better.
Here is a rule to follow, 2 for 1. I mean 2 pieces of furniture against one wall. Your furniture arrangement should always play to the focal point of the room. For instance, if a fireplace is the selling point of your living room and your set-up currently evolves around the television set, you will need to redirect attention to the fireplace. Start with the obvious. In the living room, a sofa, love seat, and club chair might be the basic furnishings. Placement of these heftier pieces will determine the rest of the layout. Pulling major furnishings at east eight inches into the room gives the space dimension. Keep your layout open and airy, adding interest through angles, dimension, and height variation. Allow visible wall space behind and between furnishings.

4) Rediscover "Lost" Spaces
A big part of what stagers do is create fantasy spaces: An exercise room, a meditation space, an art studio, a family game room.take that unused space on the third floor or in the basement and turn it into something you’ve always dreamed about having.Move those boxes to a rented storage space and create a space.drape fabric on the walls of your basement, lay inexpensive rubber padding or a carpet remnant on the floor, and toss in a few cushy pillows. woo!! Your new meditation room or yoga studio.

5) Windows and Drapes.
We always like heavy drapery but when selling, you should always go with lighter materials and colors, so let that sun shine in.This ushers in natural light and makes a previously closed-in space seem larger. Simple sheers on a tension rod are great for screening an unattractive view and providing a bit of privacy

6) Lightening.
You wouldn't imagine what wonders does lightening do. Take it from a regular dinner to a candle light dinner, If you can understand the difference between the two you are half interior decorator. you can make your home warm and welcoming by playing the right way with the lights.To remedy the problem and make your home more inviting, increase the wattage in your lamps and fixtures (aim for a total of 100 watts for every 50 square feet).Then dimmers do wonders, you can vary light levels according to your mood and the time of day, and the best part is you can do it yourself, its pretty simple.Be sure to replace old switch covers with crisp white ones.
Don’t depend on just one or two fixtures per room.Having lights on different planes provides good illumination and makes the room interesting. One thing I always do is put an old lamp behind big plant and it looks so dramatic you wouldn't imagine. Place mirrors, silver or glass bowls, or other reflective objects near lamps to bounce light around the room and make it glow even more.

7)Dress home.
As I said dress home from outside. It is as important to play with color inside too. Painting is the cheapest and a the easiest way to give home new face.
how to pick a color? very easy do it from a pillow, textile, or piece of art you love.The background color is often great for walls, and you can pull out the other colors for accents around the room You can paint a wall with contrasting color. Still complementary color for example a rich red flanked by taupe walls or a more intense version of the paint used in the rest of the room, like a deep butterscotch that will play off the soft camel walls surrounding it.
If you are scared to use colors, go with a safe back ground. These days, the definition of "neutral" extends way beyond beige– from warm tans and honeys to soft blue-greens. On this safe back ground use some warm colored accessories, like pillows, throws, drapes, vase etc.
Beside walls furniture is also important. White has always given a fresh look but black does wonders too.

8) Aroma.
Vanilla is best and widely used. you can put a drop of vanilla essence on aluminum foil and place in oven and turn it on warm. Keep air fresheners handy. So if unexpected buyers come in you are all set to show. In a crystal bowl pour boiling water on cinnamon sticks would give a nice aroma too.

My experiment:
I transformed my friend's old kitchen to modern up to date in under 400 dollars. I put laminate tiles, used pre cut granite tops over old tiled counter. Replaced yellow double sink with silver double sink. Glued silver metallic laminate sheet on old refrigerator, dish washer and compactor. Painted old cabinets from brown wooden color to black stain. And a new black and silver kitchen make the house sell $36000 over the asking price.
Little effort pays you a lot.

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