How to Stage Your Home to Sell: A Room-By-Room Guide

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How to Stage Your Home to Sell: A Room-By-Room Guide

When selling your home, it is important to consider the potential buyers that will be walking through your home and the environment they expect to see...one that is clean, decluttered and which they can see their families living in.

There are home staging tips that apply to all areas of the home. Once these are accomplished, follow the Living. Simplified. room-by-room guide, and your home will be ready for its photo shoot and open house in no time!

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Don’t Make These Home Staging Mistakes

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Don’t Make These Home Staging Mistakes

Staging your home for sale is an important step when you’re selling your home to help potential buyers see themselves in your space. But when staging your home, it’s easy to make mistakes that can detract from your home. Be sure to avoid these all-to-common home staging errors.

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Benefits of Home Staging

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Benefits of Home Staging

What is home staging and what do realtors mean when they talk about staging? Home staging is a method of preparing your home, both the interior and exterior, prior to selling your home. Staging is designed to highlight your home’s best assets, impress potential buyers, and help you sell your home quickly and for the best price.

Taking the time to stage your home, either by hiring a professional organizer or by taking on the task yourself, has many benefits, most importantly, allowing the prospective buyers to visualize themselves in your home.

Home staging makes your home more visually appealing and allows potential buyers to envision how the home might look with their own furniture, their own décor, and their own family living in the home. Generally, staged homes will sell for more than one that isn’t staged.

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How To Stage Your Home for a Quick Sale

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How To Stage Your Home for a Quick Sale

If you’re getting ready to sell your home, making the effort to stage your home should be a top priority, whether you hire a professional organizer to help or if you want to tackle the job on your own. If time is limited, focus on staging the most popular rooms in the home including the master bedroom, family room, and master bathroom, as these are the areas that potential home buyers focus on the most when touring a home.

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Before You Stage Your Home, You Must Declutter!

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Before You Stage Your Home, You Must Declutter!

It’s time for you to put your house on the market and move to a new home, but how do you get started? Before you start to create a list of home repairs or repaint your home, the best place to start is by decluttering. As you declutter, you will be able to better visualize what improvements and repairs will be necessary before you list your home for sale. And better yet, decluttering is the first step towards staging your home and packing for your move.

Did you know that 54% of Americans are overwhelmed by the amount of clutter they have, and 78% do not know what to do with it. (Source: 2015 National Association for Professional Organizers and Decluttr.com.) And that getting rid of clutter eliminates 40% of housework in the average home (Source: National Soap and Detergent Association). This tells us that not only should we regularly work on decluttering our homes for living, but that the process of selling our homes can be very stressful just based on the amount of work that needs to be done before the house is ready for the market.

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Downsizing: Where to Start

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Downsizing: Where to Start

When it comes to downsizing an entire lifetime of items in your home, the task can feel very overwhelming. By breaking down the project into bite-sized tasks, downsizing will become much more manageable.

Be sure to ask (and answer!) a few important questions as you get started: Are you moving with young children? Are you moving nearby or across the country? Will you have overnight guests in your new home? Will you be working or retired when you downsize? Having clear goals in mind will make the entire process that much easier and will help to guide you as you decide what to keep and what to discard.

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Questions to Ask Yourself When Decluttering or Downsizing

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Questions to Ask Yourself When Decluttering or Downsizing

Have you recently decided that it’s time to downsize or maybe just get your home in order? You are not alone! There comes a time when we realize we don’t need to be taking care of a large home when only two people live in it. And what happens with all our stuff? Over time, we all accumulate so many items…we buy new sneakers but hold onto the old ones. We purchase a black t-shirt only to discover we already have six others. We bought a new kitchen appliance that we don’t like but we hold onto it “just in case.”

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How to Host a Yard Sale

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How to Host a Yard Sale

Spring is in the air, we’ve spent time decluttering, and now we must decide what to do with all of our unwanted items. Maybe during your decluttering process, you’ve sold a few items and donated others. But if your collection of unwanted items is large, trying to offload pieces one by one can be very time consuming. Enter the yard sale!

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