04/22/2022
✨🚨 First impressions matter, so make your home stand out the instant buyers pull up with these home staging tips!
🏡Start with Curb appeal.
A few suggestions: rent a pressure washer to remove dirt and grime from your siding, roof, and gutters. Paint the front door and/or shutters a bright color, but make sure it coordinates well with the rest of the home’s colors. Replace old house numbers, lighting, the mailbox, and welcome mat. Clean up the edging around flowerbeds and lay down fresh mulch. Fill in empty beds with small shrubs, seasonal flowers, and greenery. Add some nice porch furniture.
🚰Give the Kitchen a Facelift
Kitchens sell houses, so any updates you make have the potential to go a long way, and they don’t have to be expensive; Start by showing off your storage. Pack up the seldom-used small appliances and dishware for your next house and use up all the food in the back of the pantry. Clear clutter off the countertops. Consider painting cabinets, and at the very least, change the outdated hardware faucet opting for a more modern style.
💔Depersonalize
Potential buyers want to be able to picture themselves in your home, and that’s hard to do if all they see are your personal items. Remove family photos, your kids’ artwork, framed diplomas, and personal collections. Pack these items up to take to your new home and replace them with generic artwork.
🛁Make Bathrooms Shine
Scrub the bathrooms! Nothing is going to turn off a potential buyer more than a dirty bathroom. Remove hard-water stains from faucets, make sure there is no sign of mold and remove clutter in cabinets. Invest in new shower curtains, rugs, and bathmats. If discolored grout is an issue, you can fix that with a bottle of grout stain. If there's moldy caulk around the tub or shower, remove it using a razor blade then recalk the entire area. Then when all that cleaning is done, create a spa look with fluffy white towels, and candles.
🛋Cut out Excess Furniture
The most important thing you can do to prepare your home for sale is to get rid of clutter. One of the major contributors to a cluttered look is having too much furniture. When professional stagers descend on a home being prepped for market, they often whisk away as much as half the owner's furnishings, so the house looks bigger. You want potential buyers to be able to move around each room without being blocked by furniture. Make sure they can easily access your home’s best features like the fireplace or built-in bookshelves, and make sure they can look out all the windows. Avoid a cluttered look by minimizing items on the coffee table and not piling so many pillows on the couch that nobody can sit on it.
Need help getting started? Give me a call!
Jada Gremillion, REALTOR®️
Fulton Grace Realty
1400 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
📲225.9990159
☎️773.698.6648
📧 [email protected]
