First impressions can make or break a sale, and a home for sale in Marco Island that is properly staged helps to maximize your chances of a positive first impression. Your home will have an advantage over other homes that aren’t staged. A staged home shows well in web site marketing and video tours, and since most homes are chosen over the internet, it is a vital form of advertising.
There are several tips for staging your home. As you go from room to room, there should be a flow to your home. Avoid overly bright or bold colored walls. This may mean repainting some or all your rooms with more calming, neutral tones. Some people cannot understand that bright purple wall can be removed with a coat of paint, and these distractions may result in no sales.
The most common trick used by stagers is to rearrange furniture to create a more stylish look. You can move the dining room table into the living room to create a living/dining room. This frees up space for an open kitchen table and voila.
Tidy up your bookcases so that they look pleasing to the eye. This may mean packing away many of your old books and keeping out the ones that display well.
Brighten the house up by cleaning windows, and go with higher wattage light bulbs until the home sells. Make sure that the lights are left on before an open house, so the prospective buyers are walking into well-lit rooms and hallways.
Remove family pictures, soccer trophies, and any other traces of everyday family life. You don’t want the buyer feeling that they are in someone else’s space. They need to imagine their family living in this house.
Use plug in room fresheners, especially to mask pet odors. If you can’t get rid of a smell, overpower it by providing a distraction, such as baking chocolate chip cookies and leaving the tray in the oven. You can always add fresh flowers to many of the rooms in your Marco Island real estate.
In the kitchen, it can be a good idea to display bowls of colorful fruit. You can also apply oil to cabinets to revive their finish, as well as modernize your cabinet handles. Clear everything off the counters, finding homes for small appliances. Remove fridge magnets and small area rugs. Have a table set for use, complete with place mats, place setting, and napkins.
In the bathrooms, have a set of thick and luxurious towels reserved only for open houses. Fill baskets with scented soaps and lotions. Use a scented plug in air freshener, and remove the collection of shampoo bottles from the tub.
Outside your Marco Island luxury home, place containers of flowers on the patios, decks, and entranceways. Power wash the outside of the house, patios, and walkways. Finally, weed the gardens and apply mulch; it makes them look like new.
There is just something about living in a stylish, clean, and clutter-free environment that attracts buyers.
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