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SECRETS OF A HOME-STAGER: 5 TOP TIPS TO SELLING YOUR HOME IN 2022 THE home staging industry has been booming in recent years, with high competition for buyer attention and prices expected to continue rising. A surge in buyers during the first few months of the 2022 is anticipated, with Rightmove reporting last month that they saw a 19% jump in the number of people requesting estate agents to value their home via the website, compared with the same period last year. With more sellers hoping to move, Elaine Penhaul - interiors expert and owner of award-winning, national home staging company Lemon and Lime Interiors - shares her top five secrets to staging your home for a successful sale in 2022.
1. Depersonalisation When a buyer chooses a home they want to envision their own belongings placed within it. While selling a home can be an emotional process, depersonalising it can assist a seller to start that process of ‘letting go’. Tidying away children’s toys and play areas, ornaments, family photo-
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graphs and portraits, plus any other collectables that might not suit another buyer’s taste, is an important start to the moving process. We’ve learnt the hard way never to underestimate a seller’s obsession, nothing is quite as strange as when a buyer once told us that they turned up to a house with a strange fixation on Labradors – they counted 438 ornaments, paintings and cushions – there was even a Labrador loo seat!
2. Make Smaller Rooms Bigger and Bigger Rooms Smaller Carefully curated light-sources, mirrors, paint tones and plants can make a small room feel much bigger. Placing a mirror opposite a window can help lengthen a room and the reflection causes more light, brightening darker and smaller spaces, and to the eye of the viewer the room appears elongated.
