5 Home Staging Tips to Help Sell Your Home

Home staging is, exactly as the name implies, a means of creating a home or the illusion of a home which prospective buyers viewing your property will want to purchase. Then, to learn how to home stage here are 5 top home staging tips that are sure to help you sell your home, quickly and without dropping your asking price below what your property is really worth.

De- Clutter

Clutter is one of the biggest and yet easiest issues which prevents homes from achieving the best sale price and results in properties languishing on estate agents’ books, and it needn’t be. The reality is that sooner or later, if you are selling up and moving somewhere new, you will need to tackle the clutter, so it is best done before showing your home to prospective buyers, and not simply once your home has been sold.




The easiest way to do this is to set aside some time to go from room-to-room within your home prioritising what you need in each and packing up what you can live without. This includes any furniture items.

To store what you do not need for the time being, consider the option of self storage. Costing as little as five pounds a week (depending where you live), self storage such as that offered by companies like The Storage Works will almost always prove far less costly than spending month after month on an estate agents’ books. Meanwhile, freeing up some room will give you the space to optimise your home and remaining items and furniture so as to make the best impression upon any potential buyers.

Consider Scale

Arranging a room according to its scale and carefully considering the size of what you put into it means making the most of the space your property has – whatever the size of the property. Meanwhile, overcrowding a room or leaving a room in which the furniture is too big, cumbersome or a two seater sofa dominates a lounge will do nothing to showcase the genuine dimensions of a room and might, at worst, in fact give potential buyers the impression that a space is smaller than it actually is.

With properties selling according to size as in the UK, scaling is then an aspect of home staging that few home owners can afford to ignore or get wrong. In fact, with each square foot of space within central London locales selling at a premium in 2016 of £1787 or each hundred pounds stretching to only 0.22square feet as calculated by the Find a Property website, scale has never mattered more. Hence, it is well worth taking a look at the furniture and items in the rooms within your home and asking yourself: is this room and all that is in it making the most of the space here or just taking it up?

Remember, a Home Begins at the Garden Path and Not the Front Door

If the property you are intending or trying to sell includes any outside space(s) you will need to remember and think both creatively and consciously about this when staging said property in order to get the best sale price. After all, if the front garden and frontage of the property fails to match the look created inside, you can guarantee this will affect how potential viewers feel about buying it. Some may even decide not to enter the property at all.

Hence, as a seller it is worth taking a look online at the photographs provided alongside or as part of property listings and making a few notes on those which wow you, and those which fail to impress. You can do this quickly and with ease by making use of property websites such as the Property Scene website.

Create a Look that Buyers Will Fall in Love With

People buy ideas. Hence, a car that conjures in a person’s mind, heart and / or imagination a sense of freedom is likely to sell – even when the reality is that the car is going to be used within a busy city for little more than the school run. Then, it is important to view your own home ahead of letting viewers in and to do so asking yourself: what is it my home, the decor, furniture and how things are arranged say about my property?

The trick is to create the illusion of the reality a prospective buyer wishes to achieve. Then, understanding who is likely to be viewing your property matters. A three bedroom semi-detached house in the suburbs of any city or town is likely to appeal to families. Meanwhile, a one bedroom inner city complex apartment is more likely to be viewed by single professional and young persons or couples.

Identifying the sort of person or people likely to want to purchase a property such as yours and creating a feel, look and the illusion that those people want to actualise or achieve is a sure way to get your property sold both quickly and for a price that is also likely to please you and your family.

Push for More without Pushing the Budget

One of the most brilliant aspects of home staging is that unlike creating a dream home, especially when you are about to leave it, staging that dream look needn’t cost a fortune or do more financial damage to you than simply shaving a few thousand off your asking price.

In fact, home staging has become so popular over recent years not only because it works but because it works by costing home owners far less than having new kitchens, bathrooms and lawns created whilst also giving those moving in a place they can instantly enjoy and feel at home in.