Home staging your house before you place it on the real estate market has become incredibly popular and crucial over the years. It helps your home sell faster and for more money. One of the critical places of interest is home staging a living room. Every home’s living room is where the owner spends more time with family and friends, relaxing and having fun. Because of this, it’s vital to show your prospective buyers that the living room will offer them what they want. Besides that, buyers need to perceive that the living room is cozy, yet roomy enough to accommodate both necessary furniture and a small gathering of friends.
Furthermore, dim lighting, damaged floor and wall and some other negative factors will only cause home buyers to think about how much they’ll spend updating the living room to an acceptable state. All these can make your house stay longer on the real estate market or sell for a lesser price than it should have been sold for.
You don’t want work to be the first thing buyers think about when the enter your living room. To showcase its potential not its flaws it is necessary for you to stage your living room with proper furniture, layout, lighting, painting and fun accessories to make it exactly what a buyer expects. Ideally, it’s recommended that you hire an experienced home staging professional to give you the best. However, if you’re on a budget and wish to go with DIY home staging, this blog post covers some basic things you should know about home staging a living room.
Do those Repairs
This is the first thing you should do when you wish to sell your house. Conduct minor repairs and fix cosmetic issues that may deter buyers from purchasing your property. Some of the things you can do include polishing the floors, replacing light bulbs, updating the fireplace and patching the walls. If you have larger issues that will be easily noticed during the buyer’s inspection, you have to decide whether you’ll spend money handling it before listing or you’ll negotiate with the prospective buyer after inspection.
Deep Clean the Living Room
Deep cleaning your living room before listing your property is a must. It’s critical because buyers lookout for homes that look well maintained. While you focus on cleaning your bathrooms and kitchens, we recommend you deeply clean your living room too. This is because your living room is where buyers visit first, and most times, it’s where they’ll spend the most time. Consider cleaning your lighting, scrubbing baseboards, cleaning your windows and glass surfaces, steaming your carpets and freshening your furniture.
Plan the Home Staging Design
Living rooms are easily cluttered because of their multipurpose nature of being used for playing, relaxing, snacking, studying and, most of all, receiving guests. Personal belongings can easily be left around, and these make it difficult for the buyer to picture himself/herself as being the owner of the house. Take your time and develop a home staging plan that’ll be aimed at making your living room look bigger, well illuminated and cozy. Keep necessary items that’ll enhance the beauty of the living room and store/discard other objects according to their future relevancy.
Paint the Room
After the design, comes the painting. Painting is one of the most crucial and most popular living room home staging tasks. It’s inexpensive; however, it can rebrand your house and help you make a sale at a higher price. You’ll need to choose a nice neutral color, paint with the right techniques and clean up after painting to reveal a sweet welcoming living room.
Staging Furniture
When you sell a home, you’re not just selling the house, you’re selling the lifestyle that fits the house, set the furniture to portray a sort of scene that the buyer can quickly identify, and picture themselves enjoy moments with loved ones. Try to put only necessary furniture and arrange them with the best home staging and interior design techniques to highlight the spaces in the room.
Add Necessary Decor
This is what most people think home staging is all about – decorating houses for sale to attract buyers. However, home staging is more than that. It involves the listed processes plus the decoration of the house to make it look like a home.
Some of the things you can do here include;
· Staging the mantle and fireplace
· Staging the coffee table
· Installing new hardware on built-ins
· Adding a new area rug
· Emphasize architectural details
· Modernize your light fixtures
· Add greenery if possible
· Amongst many others.
Conclusion
Understanding what needs to be done when home staging your living room will give you an advantage when preparing your home for sale. Always remember that the aim is to attract buyers’ attention, and you sure want to make the right first impression. With this information on what you should know about home staging a living room, you’re sure to give your living the complete makeover it deserves.
At Finer, we can assist you in highlighting the potentials of your home, and living room, and maximizing its value. We offer affordable home staging prices, furniture packages options buyers wanting to keep furniture, and we go the extra mile to make our clients happy.
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