Thursday, January 11, 2018

Tips For Home Staging New York Sellers Have Used To Advantage

By Christine Perry


Selling a house can be tricky. You might think you have done everything possible, like pricing it competitively and emphasizing the great neighborhood you live in. When you have had a number of buyers tour it without making an offer, your Realtor may suggest home staging New York sellers have used successfully in the past. Renting a houseful of furniture is unnecessary. Rearranging what you already have and creating neutral space may be sufficient.

If you're a fan of home selling reality shows, you already know that decluttering is the first rule of successful staging. You will have to remove family pictures, mementos from family vacations, and other personal items. Experts usually tell homeowners to move about half of their furniture out of living areas. The rooms will look bigger, and prospective purchasers will have an easier time envisioning their own furniture in the house.

When people are decorating their homes they tend to place all the furniture against the walls. Experts say this is a mistake. Instead you should try moving the sofas and chairs away from the walls, and let them float. Create conversational groupings, keeping in mind the traffic flow of the room. Not only will you have a more interesting look, but your rooms will seem much larger.

Don't underestimate the importance of good lighting. It's not enough to have a few lamps scattered around. You need to consider the overhead or ambient lights, the task lights, for reading and under counters, as well as the accent or lamp lighting. Experts say most homeowners need to increase the wattage of their lights until they have a one hundred watt to fifty feet ratio.

If you have small rooms in your house, you need to make them appear as large as possible. Decluttering them will help, but you can also paint them the same color as adjacent rooms. That will trick the eye into seeing a seamless transition from one area to another. Painting a room the same color as the drapes is another way to create the illusion of space.

You may love bold colors and textured walls, but the buyers walking through your house could have another opinion. You might have to suppress your own personal taste to get the house sold. Painting walls neutral colors may not seem very interesting, but it is easier for potential purchasers to visualize their own belongings in a room. Accent walls are fine as long as they are muted in tone.

You don't have to be a professional decorator to create an interesting and inviting room. Grouping decorative objects on shelves and tables, sparingly, will help achieve that. One tip designers give is to group odd numbers of objects instead of even ones.

If you think all you need when putting your house on the market is a great location and a competitive price, you may be disappointed. To stand out you have to create spaces where potential buyers can envision themselves living. That is really the only way you are going to get the offer you want.




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