A Few Staging® Tips

Contact Corey Robinson to discuss Staging® Tips to help sell your home in Seattle or King County.

When you think about Staging your home, you should consider how a buyer would see your home for the first time. What can you do to maximize the space light and other good features your home has to offer, while still keeping it simple enough for potential Buyer's to imagine this as their home?

• Clear all unnecessary objects from furniture throughout the house. Keep decorative objects on the furniture restricted to groups of 1, 3, or 5 items.
• Clear everything off your refrigerator. Most folks use magnets or tape to stick everything from vacation snapshots and finger-painting masterpieces to notes for the kids and "to do" lists on the surface of their refrigerator. Clear off kitchen counters. If it hasn't been used for three months... put it away!
• In the bathroom, remove any unnecessary items from countertops, tubs, shower stalls and commode tops. Keep only your most needed cosmetics, brushes, perfumes etc., in one small group on the counter. Always have fresh towels. Buy new shower curtains; and put new soap in the soap dishes. Coordinate towels to one or two colors only.
• Rearrange or remove some of the furniture if necessary. As owners, many times we have too much furniture in a room. This is wonderful for our own personal enjoyment, but when it comes to selling we need to thin out as much as possible to make rooms appear larger.
• Do what you can to highlight your fireplace (if you have one). Many people see fireplaces as a must in their new home. Make sure to clean & polish your fireplace tools. Pile logs neatly in the fireplace. When your house is shown on cold fall or winter days, nothing says "Welcome" like the warmth, glow, crackle, and smell of a blazing fire.
• Take down or rearrange certain pictures or objects on walls. Patch and paint if necessary.
• Review the inside of the house room by room, and Paint any room needing paint.
• Clean carpets or drapes that need it.
• Clean windows.
• Leave on certain lights during the day. During "showings" turn on all lights and lamps and keep curtains open. Don't forget to turn on closet lights, oven lights, and the lights over your stove and kitchen counter.
• Vases of colorful, fresh flowers spotted throughout the house make a wonderful impression on prospective buyers. Bouquets of carnations, daisies, tulips, or other seasonal flowers from your local supermarket are great.
• Have stereo FM on during the day for all viewings.

To find out more about how to use Staging® to sell your home in King County or Seattle, contact Corey now!