When selling your home, the one piece of advice you will always receive when prepping your home for potential buyers is to stage. Staging your home involves setting up the various rooms in your home in a way that flows naturally with the structure of your living space and helps buyers envision themselves spending their days in the same rooms. Staging is also a tool that can help show off various amenities and features specific to your home.
Staging your home can become complicated if you aren’t sure where to begin or even what things you should highlight in your home. After all, staging your home is about showcasing your property's personality, which can be a daunting task. When selling your University Park real estate, you’ll want to avoid making these home staging mistakes.
Limit personal touches
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It’s always a good idea to include a personal touch. Personal touches can help make your home memorable and even stand out from other University Park homes for sale. However, if done incorrectly, buyers might remember your home for the wrong reasons.
Personal touches can help make an otherwise minimally furnished home more inviting or appealing to the average homebuyer. Since most people interested in University Park homes for sale are looking for a place to call home, personal touches can help create this image for them. If overdone, rather than a potential buyer being able to envision themselves in your home, they’ll end up feeling like they are walking into a home that belongs to someone else.
A simple way to avoid this mistake is by making sure any personal touches you choose to include in the staging of your home are limited in number. Instead of having numerous pictures, paintings, and portraits hung from the wall, limit the number to no more than three or refrain from including wall hangings on every wall space.
Refrain from too much color
Accent walls are still trendy, and in light of the current paint trends for 2022, it might feel like a good idea to incorporate color into the staging of your home. When it comes to accent walls or even repainting the walls in your home as you prep your University Park real estate for sale, you might want to err on the side of caution. While freshly painted walls can help give your home an instant facelift, choosing bright colors or incorporating patterns could deter potential buyers.
It’s important to remember that while color or accent walls can make a room look more appealing, they could also reduce the appearance of space in the room. This can quickly become a sore spot for potential buyers interested in your property if they feel limited in how they can use the room. Additionally, some buyers may feel like the colors you picked would require too much work to paint over with a new color.
If you are interested in painting the walls of your home a color other than white or are interested in the use of accent walls, try picking more neutral or lighter colors. These colors will be able to make any room look spacious and will provide just the right amount of contrast to make your home look more appealing.
Reduce the amount of furniture
When it comes to staging your University Park real estate, you’ll want to consider maximizing the visible space in your home. Too much furniture can make your property feel cluttered or smaller than it is. While it might seem like you should include the various types of furniture that should belong to any given room, you might want to reconsider that idea.
Usually, the furniture used to stage a home isn’t the same furniture that a potential buyer will use themselves. As a result, it’s best to keep the amount of furniture to a minimum. It’s also a good idea to avoid overly ornate pieces of furniture and instead choose simpler designs. This will help potential buyers stay focused on the rooms and amenities of your property. It will also help them start to visualize how they will use the rooms and the type of furniture they may want for their new home.
Don’t forget scents
You might not think of scents as something that would play a role in a potential homebuyer’s decision, but they can. Fragrances are known to trigger memories, and the last thing you want is for your home to smell less than appealing to potential homebuyers. However, you also don’t want to overdo it when trying to bring in pleasant smells. Instead, concentrate on eliminating any potential foul odors, like the scent of cooking, pets, or even dusty air vents. If you are interested in giving your home a scent to welcome potential buyers, consider choosing a single, clean fragrance.
Avoid themed rooms
While having a room designed for pets, children, or games might seem like a good idea, when it comes to staging your property, these rooms can potentially limit your buyer pool. You simply aren’t able to anticipate the wants, needs, and desires of potential buyers. Even if you were to find a buyer potentially interested in these types of rooms, it doesn’t mean that the carefully curated themed room you’ve created will be what they want. Instead, opt to keep the rooms in your home neutral, so potential buyers can envision how these rooms can be used.
It’s important to remember that when it comes to staging your University Park real estate, the main goal is to help potential buyers envision themselves living in your home.
If you are ready to start the home selling process, reach out to a trusted agent like Brad Coffman. He will make your dreams a reality through expertise, communication, and hard work.
