Selling your home can be an extremely stressful process – there is no guarantee that you will be offered your asking price, and there isn’t even a guarantee that you will be able to sell. To help you show off the best features of a luxury display home, you can try ‘staging’ it. This involves arranging a room in a way that shows off its strengths and downplays its weaknesses.
Some of the features that are often considered strengths of the home include decent size rooms, plenty of space, large windows and hardwood floors. Some of the features that are often considered weaknesses include bad odors (such as pets or cigarettes), paint colour and doors that do not close properly. You need to ‘stage’ the room so that the strengths are prominent.
- Eliminate Distractions
This will help potential buyers to see the strengths the moment they walk into the room. This can be achieved by getting rid of the clutter; only use a select few items of furniture that go well with the theme or décor of the room. Keep images, especially photographs, to a minimum so that the full size of the room can be realized. - Point The Buyer’s Eye
By ensuring that a potential buyer’s eye is drawn to the best features of the room, you are grabbing their attention immediately. Achieve this by adding focal pieces that complement the feature, by adding window treatments that show off the view, or even a small display on a mantle to show off the fireplace.
Often, the hardest part of ‘staging’ a room can be hiding its weaknesses. One of the most difficult problems to eliminate is bad odors, especially as all the cleaning in the world is not always effective in getting rid of the smell. Whilst you should always undertake a professional clean, a new coat of paint and air deodorizers can also be highly effective.
If you are struggling to sell your luxury display home or you are about to put it on the market and want to ensure the best first impression possible, you might like to consider ‘staging’ as the solution. This is a process that is designed to showcase the best features of your home, and hopefully to entice potential buyers into making an offer.
