3 Tips and Tricks to Stage Your Home Yourself

3 Tips and Tricks to Stage Your Home Yourself

If you’re ready to put your home on the market with other homes for sale in Naples, you’ve likely given considerable thought about how you’ll present your residence to buyers during open houses and private showings. You may be considering whether or not to hire a professional home stager or to stage your home yourself. If you’re leaning toward the latter, consider these tips and tricks to effectively get the job done on your own.

Stage Your Home Tip #1. Accessorize Using Odd Numbers

Each room in your home should be staged to clearly demonstrate its purpose, or the way that potential buyers could use it.

When furnishing a space, consider grouping your accessories in odd numbers. Odd numbers can make decor look unstudied, casual, and collected over time, while a single pair can appear forced and too planned. For example, an end table topped with two differently sized vases and a book (for a total of three tabletop items).

Stage Your Home Tip #2. Avoid All-White Bedding; Add Color, Texture

Gone are the days of stark white bedding to achieve a neutral vibe. Although beds decked in all white may work well in hotels, plain white in a home can come across as bland, clinical, and cold.

Consider layering your white bedding with warmer neutrals to keep your spaces feeling open and airy, while adding a cozy and homy vibe that’s welcoming to buyers.

Think about incorporating different fabrics and textures for added interest, like a blanket or quilt folded across the foot of the bed, or accent pillows.

Stage Your Home Tip #3. Avoid Polarizing Items, Family Photos, and Children’s Art

Not only is it wise to establish a neutral color palette throughout your home, but your residence should also create a neutral atmosphere that’s free of items that can be offensive to house hunters.

Images and items that have the potential to be polarizing to visitors should be put away while your home is on the market.

Also, as you stage your home, be sure to stow away family photos and things like children’s art. Such items cause buyers to focus more on you, and your family’s lives, rather than allowing them to visualize their own lives and possessions in their potential new home.

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