HOw to get your home ready to sell
Make the Right Moves to Make Your Home the Obvious Choice
Decluttering is Liberation
If you are like most people you will need to sell your home while living in it. So divide all your stuff into three categories; things you don’t need – guess what you do with them? Rid yourself of them. Category Two things you are going to move to the next place but don’t use everyday. Maybe you have a old portrait of your great grandfather who glowers down on you like Nosferatu, put it away Van Hesling, nobody wants to see that. The overall gaol is to make your home as neutral and inviting as possible. That goes for the outside too , so lower your “Let’s go Brandon” flag. So that people of all sorts can imagine buying your home, moving all their stuff in and living there. Stuff. Needs to be Stuffed. When you start to feel like your house is naked, then you are there. Less things make your home look bigger.
Staging?
You want to stage a property to sell. You are not decorating the home, your goal is to make the house look open and even a little empty. Depersonalize your home, no offense but all those family photos, dogs pictures, bowling trophies they should all be packed away. Flags, religious memorabilia, college banners, those weird books on your bookshelves. If you have doubt about it, git rid of it pack it up.
White Linen – White Towels
White makes everything look clean. White pillows white linens are cheap, and you can get them anywhere. Lots of people say like a pop of color, but white is better, we don’t want a buyers eye drawn to one particular thing we want them to get the feeling the vibe of the palce, we are selling the home not a pottery barn chamois. Neutral is the way to go.
Lets Talk Throw Pillows
Throw pillows should be guess what? – Neutral but did you also know that mixing fabrics and textures can be a great way to make the space feel luxurious and expensive. Velvet curtain, combined with a woven basket full of nice down filled throw pillows creates an air of elegance that will be evident in person as well as in the photographs. Focus on textures not colors.
Create Symmetry
Pro tip that is amazing yet unexplainable – most sellers are hanging their pictures too high. Pictures should be hung at approx 57-60 inches to the center of the picture painting. The reason is that in the photographs it creates a visual symmetry that is appealing. Put some plants in the corners to add an organic pleasant feel to the space. Artificial plants even can do the job, they absolutely transform pictures.
The Rule of Threes
If you are putting something on a shelf make it three, something on a table use the rule of three. Even in varying the texture of items use three different textures to trick the buyers brain, ideas, thoughts sentences objects arranged in triads delight our senses. Three neutral colors.
ROI Repairs
Looking to maximize the value of you home, thinking of remodeling the kitchen or finishing the basement will get you more money for your home? Most likely not. Focus on small repairs that will make your home appear clean, open and inviting. Painting a basement will make it appear clean and dry. Number one ROI for repairs is had has been for may years running – paint the front door, it’s the first impression a buyer sees and can make the whole home feel brand new.