Staging Tips : For A Small Home

Staging Tips FOR A SMALL HOME

For small homes, staging is an essential. We all know the golden rule of making a home look bigger for potential buyers, but for a small home – this rule is even more crucial. There is a ton of great advice out there. From decluttering to maximizing mirrors in the home, there is a lot of advice agents can provide their sellers to prepare for listing day. Check out a few of our favorite tips we’ve gathered.

Get your clients to go down to the bare minimum. Encourage them to box up anything they don't utilize on a daily basis and anything that’s smaller than a lunch box, that goes for their tchotchke collection(s) too.

Shelves and display cabinets should be carefully addressed and arranged to help open up the home. Don’t be afraid of blank space! Take down art and family photos to help depersonalize and declutter your rooms.

Reduce contrasting colors wherever possible. That goes for your furniture AND walls. Painting every room the same color (preferably in a lighter hue or shade of white), isn’t an artistic cop-out, particularly in a smaller home, it serves the important purpose of giving the home a continuous, less choppy, look and feel.

Don’t cut corners, or fill them. Leave the corners open in a room to help extend the view of the space. The more open space potential buyers can see, the larger the rooms will feel. Take it higher. Wherever you are able, you want to raise the bar – of your window treatments and shower curtains that is. This will help give the illusion of higher ceilings and a greater space.

Have advice you’d like to share? Email us at hsne-marketing@homeservicesne.com | With help from: Realtor.com