Before you can put your house up for sale, you need to complete any outstanding renovations you’ve started and update your interior design. As much as we would love it to be otherwise, not doing this will prolong the length of time your house spends on the market and might potentially lower the average offer you receive. You don’t need to totally overhaul your spaces, but with a little TLC you can get your home ready to sell.
Staging has become a popular trend in realty, and forgoing this option can seriously harm your chances of selling your home quickly and for the price you want. Real estate agents and interior designers suggest every prospective seller to stage their living spaces before they publish photos of their home or schedule an open house. This process streamlines your spaces to make it easy for others to imagine themselves living there. As this line of thinking suggests, staging removes any overbearing sign of you and your family’s style and creates a warm, inviting space for others. By depersonalizing and creating a blank canvas, potential buyers are more likely see themselves adding their own personalized touch to the space and – more importantly – putting in an offer.
Depersonalizing your house is easy. Remove any pictures of you and your family, and replace them with neutral pieces of art or decorative mirrors. Decluttering is also an essential step to staging, so you should remove any items, papers, and other belongings that can produce a chaotic feeling in your spaces. Living rooms and bedrooms should be stripped of unnecessary items and furniture, and incomplete renovations or broken items should be fixed to create a sophisticated, stylish look.
Updating your house’s décor is another sure-fire way to get it to sell faster. If you still have the previous homeowner’s original wallpaper throughout your spaces, you might want to rethink that. Your house should look like it’s ready for a contemporary family to move, so you should take off any old wall paper, replace outdated carpet, and repaint. The window treatments each of your rooms have are also a very important way to update your spaces. There’s not much a new rug or wall colour can do if your windows still look like they’re stuck in the 80s.
Before jumping into house-wide makeover, consider your options. A neutral, cohesive décor has a better chance of enticing the right buyer than a wild, quirky scheme that changes from room to room. The new window treatments you choose should work in cooperation with the other design choices you make, so it’s best if you install blinds, shades, or shutters in a neutral shade like white or beige. These soft window treatments can be easily paired with any design scheme, which means a prospective buyer wouldn’t have to change these treatments if they want to paint or install new flooring according to their unique preferences.
Once you get to the part of your staging where you need to consider your window treatments, get in contact with our design experts. They can walk you through our excellent selection of beautiful – yet neutral – window treatment options, and help you find the right option that will get your house sold faster. Because when you take the time to prepare your house before you put it up for sale, you’re guaranteeing a bigger and faster return.