Evaluate Your Property!
When selling your property, nothing is more off-putting than poor presentation. One of the keys to success (both in the time it takes to sell and the price you accept) is the staging of your property. Your real estate must be showcased from its best angles, both inside and out.
Some agents provide advice and recognize the value of a well-organized home, even going so far as to offer an inventory of items that can be useful for home staging. Highlight the strengths of your property, minimize its weaknesses to attract the largest possible volume of potential buyers with these tips.
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1. Declutter
The most important thing you can do to prepare your property for sale is to declutter. Establish a living rule that for every new item, an old one must go. List on sites like leboncoin, Facebook, or others. One of the main factors of clutter is having too much furniture. When professional stagers work on a home prepared for the market, they often take up to half of the owner’s furnishings. This helps improve the perception of space. You don’t have to part with all your furniture before even moving out, but just take a careful look at what you have and what you can do without.
2. Group Furniture
There is a common belief that rooms will feel larger and easier to use if all the furniture is pushed against the walls, but this is not the case. Instead, furnish your space by moving furniture away from the walls. Reposition sofas and chairs to create comfortable conversation groups and arrange pieces so that traffic flow in a room is obvious. Not only will this make the space more inviting, but it will also open up the room and make it feel larger.
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3. Play Musical Chairs with Furniture!
Allow yourself to move furniture, artwork, and accessories between rooms on a whim! Just because you bought that chair for the living room doesn’t mean it won’t look great in a corner of your bedroom. And try placing a worn dining table in front of a lovely window, dressing it up with buffet lamps and other accessories, and using it as a beautiful desk or library.
4. Transform Some Rooms
If you have a room that is only used for collecting junk, transform it into something that adds value to your home. The simple addition of a comfortable armchair, a small table, and a lamp in the corner of a stairwell will turn that passage space into a cozy reading nook. Think bigger and attach fabric to the walls of your basement and lay down cheap rubber padding or a leftover carpet on the floor and add some plush pillows. Here you have a new meditation room or yoga studio.
5. Home Lighting
One of the factors that makes the interior of an apartment or house feel so warm and welcoming is lighting. It turns out that many homes are very poorly lit. To remedy this, increase the wattage of your lamps and fixtures. Aim for a total of 100 watts for every 50 square meters. Don’t rely on just one or two fixtures per room. Make sure you have three types of lighting: ambient (general or overhead), task lighting (pendant, under-cabinet, or reading), and a final one to accent the space (table and wall).
6. Expand
To make a room feel larger than it is, paint it the same color as the adjacent room. If you have a small kitchen and dining room, at a glance, we will notice that both rooms have a great sense of space. Another design tip: if you want to create the illusion of more space, paint the walls the same color as your linens. This will give you a cohesive and sophisticated look.
7. Neutral and Appealing
Painting a living room in a neutral and fresh color helps to soften any dated finishes in the space. Even if you’ve been won over by off-white walls, take the risk of testing a quart of paint in a warm, neutral shade. Nowadays, the definition of neutral extends well beyond beige, with warm tans and honey to soft blue-greens. As for bold wall colors, they tend to shrink a space, so opt for neutral colors in large areas.
8. Experience Color
Don’t be afraid to use dark paint in a bathroom, dining room, or bedroom. A deep tone on the walls can make the space feel more intimate and cozy. And you don’t need to go all out with a color — you can paint just an accent wall to draw attention to a spectacular fireplace or a beautiful series of windows. If you have built-in bookshelves or niches, try painting the interiors in a color that makes them pop — for example, a soft sage green to highlight the white pottery displayed inside.
9. Variations in Displays
In most home and apartment interiors, frames and paintings are hung in a high line around each room. Big mistake. Placing your images, paintings, and prints in such stereotypical spots can make them almost invisible. Creatively displayed art stands out better and showcases your space. So break that line and vary the patterns and grouping.
10. Accessorize in Threes!
Mixing the right accessories can make a room feel warmer. When it comes to accessorizing spaces, odd numbers are preferable, especially the number three. Instead of lining up a trio of accessories in a row, envision a triangle and place one item at each corner. Scale is also important, so in your group of three, make sure to vary the height and width, with the tallest item at the back and the smallest at the front. For maximum effect, group accessories by color, shape, texture, or any other unifying element, as home stagers suggest.
11. Garden!
Staged homes and apartments are almost always decorated with fresh flowers and expensive orchid arrangements, but you can achieve a similar effect simply by utilizing your yard or garden. Freshly cut magnolia branches or unfolded fern fronds herald the arrival of spring, summer flowers add cheerful pops of color, vibrant autumn foliage warms your decor on chilly fall days, and heavy holly branches with berries in winter.
12. Serenity and Warm Welcome
Create a space with luxurious linens and soft colors that will make a potential buyer dream.
Tip: If you don’t feel like buying a new bed, take the frame, buy a cheap inflatable mattress, and dress it with neutral patterned bedding. By cleaning out your closets, you show your storage space, which is a good criterion for real estate buyers in particular in cities where every square meter counts, like Paris, this is a real priority among the many criteria buyers look for in real estate.
13. New Faces
If you can’t afford new cabinets, you just need to have new doors and drawer fronts. Then, paint everything to match and add a new material. And instead of replacing the entire dishwasher, maybe you can get a new front panel. Check with the manufacturer if replacements are available for your model. If not, laminate, which acts like contact paper, can be used to cover the existing panel.
14. A Completed Property
Unfinished projects can scare off potential buyers, so finish them. Missing floorboards and large cracks on your door threshold tend to be a red flag for potential buyers, for example. Additionally, it will cost you less to fix it than buyers negotiating on the listed sale price.
15. Fresh and Polished Paint
Professional tile painting can make a bathroom feel new, and accessorizing can give buyers the impression of being in a spa. Add items like rolled towels, decorative baskets, and candles. It’s a great way to create a neat look, and it doesn’t cost much to do.