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Tips For Home Staging New York Sellers Have Used To Advantage

By Christine Perry


Selling your house can be tough. Even if the price is right, and you live a nice neighborhood, you may have a lot of competition. When your house has been on the market for a couple of months without much interest, your Realtor may suggest an open house and some home staging New York sellers have found beneficial. Before you put all your old furniture in storage and call a rental company though, you should consider working with what you already have.

The first rule always seems to be getting rid of the clutter. This means taking down family photos and removing a lot of the memorabilia that personalizes most people's living spaces. Most experts find that homeowners tend to have too much furniture in any given room and suggest you get rid of about half of it. Your rooms will look much bigger.

If all the furniture in your rooms are arranged against the walls, you need to move some of it out. Grouping them in a way that looks conversational is more interesting and adds space to the room. You have to consider the traffic flow when you are grouping however. Buyers can envision their own furniture in a room when there is less of yours in it.

Lighting is another key to presenting your house well. Most homeowners don't think about turning on ambient or overhead lights and lighting under counters along with lamps or accent lights. Switching on table lamps for an open house isn't sufficient. Most experts believe there should be a hundred watts for every fifty feet of living area.

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.

If you know a few tricks of the trade, people will think you are a talented decorator. One simple tip is to group decorative objects in threes, or some other uneven number. It doesn't matter whether the objects are on table or shelves. The uneven look is much more interesting.

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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