DIY Saturday #93- How to Stage Your Luxury Home Property (Video)
Guest Blogger #425, Entry #1039, March 24, 2012
Happy DIY Saturday! Now that spring is in full swing it is time to start thinking about selling your home and how you will attract buyers. Springtime is the optimum time to put your home on the market and now is the time to assess what are your home’s key selling features and what areas should be downplayed.
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Today’s DIY Saturday you will learn tips to stage your home to help potential homebuyers visualize your home with themselves in your home! Whether you have a luxury property or not, the basic staging principles are the same. For luxury homes the payoff is of course larger and therefore attention to details is essential. Watch a You Tube video for tips to help you stage your home and then my Guest Blogger lends tips to help you stage your luxury home property.
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You Tube – Staging to Sell
Guest Blogger – How to Stage your Luxury Home Property
The sellers of luxury homes often spend thousands of pounds in renovations, painting touch-ups or landscaping in order to get the best returns from a purchase. There is no doubt that if these changes are done effectively the value of a luxury property home will increase. However, staging tips can also be used to assist in the profitable sale of a home, without much added expense or effort. Staging is about presenting a home in the best way possible so that it appeals to potential buyers. It’s not about adding or repairing elements, but simply showing off what your house offers in the best light. Reports show that home staging results in faster and higher value buys than non staged homes. Read these top home staging tips for selling your luxury property.
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Home Staging Begins at the Entrance
Home staging is all about making a great impression on visitors, thus the first impression is vital. The first home staging tips for selling a house is to make the entrance inviting. You need to amaze any potential buyers before they even step into the house. Make sure that the entrance is not cluttered with umbrellas, boots or toys and keep. Place an ornamental plant by your front door to make the entrance aesthetically pleasing.
Depersonalize Your Luxury Home
Any home will have a personal touch to it; that is what differentiates a home from a house. However, as much as you love displaying your family holiday photographs and placing your children’s artworks on the fridge door, personal objects will be immensely foreign to a potential buyer and even drive them away. You need to make it easy for the buyer to imagine your home as their home. They need to have the space to picture there life in your home, and personal things will only distract them. Packing away photographs, children’s artwork and personal ornaments is a vital house staging tip.
Remove Clutter
It’s also a great staging tip to remove as many object as possible from surfaces, so that potential buyers can easily imagine their own possessions in the home. A bowel of fruit on the kitchen table or a vase of flowers in the dining room can have a beautiful effect on the eye, however books, magazines, keys, etc should be packed away.
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Use Natural Lighting
If your house receives morning light, arrange for potential buyers to view the house in the morning. If afternoon light is best, arrange for the evening. Natural light always give rooms an airy and spacious quality; nobody enjoys dark and stuffy rooms.
These home staging tips are the absolute basics of presenting a home. It is somewhat an art and requires a keen eye for design and space. It may be worth your while to employ the advice of a professional home stager, in order to obtain the best price from a potential buyer.
Penny Munroe is an avid writer in luxury property news and tips. Her interest started when she began marketing luxury property for sale in Belgravia and sourcing luxury property for rent in Covent Garden to affluent businessman.
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