Realtor Ben Teerlink and Alpine Homes interior designer Donna simasingh come to Studio 5 and tell you about 9 ways to rethink your plans and simple ideas that can make a big difference in selling your home.
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Staging your home is a term that creates a simple plan to get your home ready to sell. Here are nine ideas you should know:
1) Cleanliness. Make sure your home is sparkling clean. Hire a cleaning crew if you have to. Have them return every week if possible or as often as the home needs it while it’s on the market. Get windows professionally cleaned, if you can, inside and out.
2) Fix-up. If you have dripping faucets or loose tiles or anything else that’s broken or needs repair, get it fixed before putting the house on sale.
3) Eliminate clutter. The 50% Rule applies here. It states that you should eliminate clutter in your home by at least 50%. Clutter makes a home seem smaller and disorganized. (Notice that expensive stores have expansive, clutter-free layouts, while inexpensive stores have a jumble of merchandise.)
4) Neutral Colors. Neutral colors sell. Convey an image of quality and neutrality. Potential buyers want to imagine themselves as the woners. Don’t use styles or colors they would never select or you’ll turn them off.
5) De-personalize. Remove objects that buyers won’t be able to idenitfy with. No politcal or religious items. Buying a home is an emotional decision, so potential buyers should have an emotional connection with your home by being able to “see” themselves in it.
6) Bathrooms. Bathrooms should be clean and decluttered as well. Clean the glass shower door. No personal toiltetry items. Put new soap bars, new high quality neutral , fluffy towels on the rack.
7) Kitchens.8) Entrance. The first glimpse insdie your home should give potential buyers positive, uplighting feelings. Entry should be as light and bright as possible. leave all the lights on in the house when showing it. Get rid of area rugs. Limit your cooking to plain foods so odors don’t linger. But bake up some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies to make your home smell great.
9) Curb appeal. You can only make one “first impression” and people form impressions within 30 seconds. What they see driving up will be their first impression. Spend a little time and money and plant flowers, trim bushes, weed, pick up leaves, repaint the front door, replace tarnished house numbers or dented mailboxes. Get new neutral doormats and park your old car somewhere else.
Also, another great investment is to buy new carpeting.
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