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Staging Your Home
Home staging can be a great tool to sell your home or just a way to get more organized and de-cluttered. This applies to both inside and out of the home.
The first step is to look around each room. Bring a note pad with you if you are serious about doing this. Make notes about any problem items; such as broken doors, light switches. Yes; the 'honey do' type list, but it gets much more detailed as you go.
Now look inside the closets. Yes; buyers look in closets to see if there is enough room. Mark in your pad whether the closet is neat or packed and needs some thinning out.
Bathroom is the next stop. Any broken tiles, dripping faucets, etc? Also is there any areas that need to really be cleaned? Look at this as though you were buying.
The kitchen is an important area. Is it cluttered with items all over the counters? Are the cabinets messy and over flowing? Clear out the items you don't use on a regular basis. Store them where you can get to them; but not clutter a cabinet in doing so.
Look around the living and dining rooms. Clean up as much clutter and items you don't use daily. Clean out he display case of any items that are not “display casable”.
The garage is another place that gets cluttered very quickly. If you get a hold on it before it gets too cluttered you will be ahead of the game. If you are beyond that you may want to do a little at a time to make it easier on yourself.
Curb appeal is just as it sounds. An appeal of your house from the curb view. What do you see when you look at your house from the curb? Peeling pain, a broken mailbox, dead plants, etc? You will be surprised at how different the house will look once you make the effort to clean up the yard. This includes the front and back yard as well.
Staging is just making your home more presentable to yourself and/or prospective buyers. If doing the work is too much for you or if you have no time to do it - you can always hire a home stager to do it for you.
