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Decorating for Home Staging

In a buyers' market, as the world seems to be experiencing simultaneously right now, it is essential that sellers sell the inside of their homes with effective home staging.  Decorating for home staging is easy and affordable, and even if you are not prepping a home to sell, many people just appreciate having a home that is model home worthy.  Décor accessories, de-cluttering, and some other simple and affordable tricks will stage a home effectively for buyer appeal.

Every room needs to serve a definite purpose. In home staging, the one thing you must do above anything else in prepping a home for sale is to show a buyer the potential of a room. Open, unused spaces are scary, because if you have moved out furniture or had a combined bedroom office, the buyer may find the space confusing and potentially useless.  If you have already moved into a new home, and brought your furnishings with you, rent some furniture; many people do this to define spaces and sell their home more quickly.  Just a quick note: homes with furniture will sell more quickly than empty homes.

Neutral colours on the walls say this house is move-in ready.  Lime green, bright blue, apple red, and other bold colours are potentially dangerous. The right buyer may be scared away at the thought of having to repaint. Neutral earth tones is an inexpensive change to make to a home attractive, move in ready, and eliminate the chance of buyers taking time to consider how worth it is to them to have to repaint your pink ballerina themed nursery.

Going back to room purpose, if a room is designated as a bedroom, nice window treatments, an attractive bed, and beautiful new bedding are going to add showroom qualities to a potentially tired room.  If a room is laid out well, and the bed looks nice with a new duvet cover, new pillow cases, extra toss pillows, and a throw rug, a potential buyer may be distracted from outdated carpet that is too expensive to replace.

Window treatments should be updated all throughout the house.  Drapes, curtains, blinds, and shades are all huge visual elements that will not go unnoticed.  Just count on something potentially being out of taste to a buyer if you think you are unique by liking it.

The kitchen is the number one most valuable room in a house.  The kitchen is the heartbeat of a home, and should be updated from new tablecloths, linen placemats, and linen napkins topped with beautiful china on the eat-in kitchen table to the drawer and cabinet pulls, back splash, and countertops.

Dining rooms should be prepared just as if a dinner party was ready to commence at any moment through beautiful table linens.  A high quality and attractive tablecloth will cover up an outdated or damaged table, and buyers may be more attracted to a dining room based on the dining room décor and layout of the tableware and linens more than the walls in a room.  People admire places they can picture themselves in!

Just a couple of tips to remember:

• Update the décor all throughout a house, but do not favour décor choices that are strictly individual in taste. This needs to appeal to everybody.
• Pretend that your home is being sold at a store, and remove all personal items that a buyer would have no need for. This includes any boxes and packaging with or without your things in them, personal pictures or other personal mementos, excess clothes in the closet (remove all clothes or only keep a few pieces), extra appliances on the countertops (toaster, blender, mixer), and children's toys, bouncers, ect unless it is imperative that you keep them and then store them away for showings. If you wondered why something wasn't included in this list, remove that item too.
• A clean organized garage and yard is an increase in value.
• For notified home showings, a fire in the fireplace during winter, fresh flowers, or a soft-lit candle will create a more welcoming atmosphere.

Replace outdated lighting and faucets.  If it's 80s cheap gold, it might need to go.

About the Author

The House Queen, http://thehousequeen.com.au/, an online source for home decor, is a family owned business created by Katrina Foulkes-Taylor.  In the wide open country of Western Australia, bringing refined taste and style into a home required traveling great distances, time, and money that couldn't be sacrificed.  However, there was a great demand, and The House Queen was born.

Katrina responded to the need by not only supplying products and accessories for the entire home, but by also posting helpful decorating advise from constant study of interior designers, home stagers, home improvement editors, and other experts in the field through her blog and informational articles posted online.

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