3 Best Home Staging Tips
3 Best Home Staging Tips
These 3 Home Staging Tips are THE THREE WE DO to each home we stage and prepare For Sale and For Rent. These three tips will create the greatest impact for the least amount of money!!!
Home staging is the act of preparing a home to sell or rent, by maximizing it’s appeal and accentuating best features. Whether hiring a Home Staging professional, or taking it on as Do It Yourself… make no mistake these efforts WILL make a big difference.
Professionals usually charge by the square foot for Home Staging. The average price charged to state a 1500 square foot home = $1000. There are TONS of free or super inexpensive things you can do FIRST before even THINKING of hiring someone to help you! THESE THREE TIPS WILL MAKE THE GREATEST IMPACT FOR THE LEAST AMOUNT OF MONEY!
Simple inexpensive Home Staging techniques will help get you top dollar in the shortest amount of time
when you’re selling or renting your property.
Home Staging generally helps properties sell (or rent) an average of 2-3 months FASTER! It ALSO helps to attract more qualified, serious buyers or tenants!
Home staging is the act of preparing a home to sell (or sometimes rent), by maximizing it’s appeal and accentuating best features. Whether hiring a Home Staging professional, or taking it on as Do It Yourself… make no mistake.
These efforts WILL make a big difference in how potential buyers (or renters) perceive and view the property.
It’s all about rearranging and redecorating to maximize space, and to appeal to the broadest mix of potential buyers/tenants. There are MANY things you can do for FREE and/or very affordably yourself, if you chose not to enlist the services of a pro.
Tip #1. Front doors create a first impression, make them great!
- Pressure wash entryway, trim, corners and ceiling (remove dirt, mold, cobwebs etc)
- Paint front door and trim (and mailbox to match). Usually takes about 1 quart of good door paint.
- Replace any worn outdated hardware (knob and locks should be a matching set, approx $60-$120)
Front doors create a first impression.
Make sure the first impression is the best one possible.
Pressure wash entryway. Paint door and trim. Add new hardware.
These next three photos give a bad first impression. They create the perception that the property hasn’t been maintained. This perception will directly affect the quality of buyers/offers, tenants the property will attract.
Do you get a feeling of “this home is clearly well-maintained”? No!
Tip #2. first smell inside creates an immediate emotional response, add fragrance!
A dank, musty smell or unpleasant smell when the front door is opened will turn off most every buyer or tenant. This is one of the easiest, cheapest fixes to ensure a great perception! when the inside of a property smells pleasant, it creates an immediate emotional feeling. Make sure that feeling is a positive one!
- Use Febreeze on Curtains, rugs by the front door
- Burn a fragrant candle by the front door
- Use a Febreeze or other Fragrance Plug-in by the front door
- Use an AC Filter Fragrance Pad that will permeate throughout the house
- take out all garbage every night (especially kitchen) and before every showing
Tip #3. Freshly Painted Neutral interior walls and trim keep spaces light and bright!
- Paint Interior Living area Walls (entry, family, living, kitchen, halls) a light, neutral color (light beige, White, Light Greige)
- Paint Trim and Doors (semi-gloss white is usually best)
neutral whites or light beiges keep spaces looking bigger, lighter and brighter (the goal). box up clutter and trinketts, let the best qualities of each space be seen.
Of our 3 best home staging tips, front door hardware will probably be the highest cost. it pays to do a little comparison shopping! most full sets at home depot and Lowes are priced around $100.
We found our favorite go-to set for less than $60 on Amazon and it’s super easy to install and looks so great on every house we’ve installed it on so far!
Two other FAVORITE items we use Often with great results:
Modern Masters Front Door Paint comes in lots of great colors. Most often we stick with white in our own practice, but some homes benefit from color on a front door. This paint is a thicker, very forgiving paint that covers really well. It doesn’t leave brush marks, you don’t normally need any primer when changing colors, and it paints on effortlessly. It also lasts a long time. We’ve been using it for years and it really holds up much better than regular paint for front doors and also mailboxes!
Fragrance is the one invisible element that makes THE MOST IMPACT for anyone you invite into your home. Stale, musty or bad smells turn off people immediately. REMEMBER, YOU GET NOSE-BLIND IN YOUR OWN SPACE! When you live with a smell, you won’t know it! We love these Air Wick brand starter kits because they come with two plug-ins (we put one by the front door and one towards the back of the home). And with multiple refills, this kit usually lasts for a couple of months. This Botanica version has (in our opinion) the best fragrances. We also love the French Lavender and Honey Blossom scent and Himalayan Magnolia and Vanilla. Dreamy…!
