Top 5 Home Staging Mistakes
You are getting prepared to sell your home, and you have found a top estate agent such as Noll Sotogrande to assist. What next? Well to get the property listed and looking its best you will need professional photos. But remember, a photographer is only as good as it’s subject.
Do your home a favor and don’t make these top five home staging mistakes!
- Don’t forget the look from the street
- Dark and messy rooms
- Old painted walls and stains
- Looks like it’s still YOUR home
- Changing the usage of spaces.
1. Don’t forget the look from the street
The front of your villa is the first thing potential buyers are going to observe when they pass by or when they see your listing on Noll Sotogrande. The inside of the home can be as wonderful as you like, but if the outside looks abandoned you have done your house a serious injustice. Paying attention to the front of the property doesn’t mean you have to spend a massive amount on professional landscaping, so here are some tips:
- Cut the grass. You do not want your front garden looking like a cornfield.
- Freshen up the flowerbeds. Maybe even some solar lights along the border.
- Power wash the growing moss from the roof, the algae from the walls and the oil drips from the driveway.
2. Ignoring the Doom and Gloom Feel
When you enter the house, it should NOT look as if you are walking into a dirty messy dark and cluttered room. Have a professional cleaner come and do what they do! It is a small investment for a bright outcome both in looks but also in odour.
Other obvious things to do in your Sotogrande home:
- Draw the curtains open.
- Turn on lamps and let in as much natural light as possible.
- Place a nice houseplant in the room that shows how living things thrive in all this natural light.
- Declutter as much as possible. After all, you are selling so begin to pack some of your heirlooms.
Depersonalized living room and kitchen!
3. A coat of paint never hurts
Bring your walls back to neutral. Remove all old stains, particularly children and pet marks. Grey is the new beige, so slap on a coat and don’t feel like you have to stop at the walls.
4. Leaving your Personalization Everywhere
Remove as much as you can all personal items. Items such as family photos in Sotogrande, children’s school trophies, an antique collection, etc. All these items are yours and alien to the potential buyer. As much as possible the house should be neutral so the buyer can imagine themselves in the property. Hire a box in Sotogrande Guardamuebles (Storage facility) and pack away your personal items.
Watch this property tour to see a good example of a house that has no personal items, ready to be sold! Can you notice how depersonalization helps to sell a home? The potential buyers can actually see themselves as owners!
5. Misusing Rooms
Your listing photos should show the rooms as they were designed. You may always eat in the kitchen on a wonderful kitchen table and use your dining room as a playroom for the kids. A dining room is a dining room and the listing photos should show it that way. You want to show space the way it was intended to be used. You may think this is a problem but with a virtual staging app, you can digitally upload a picture of your empty dining room and add furniture to the photograph for listing purposes.
It is very important that every space is presented in the same way they were designed, even if you used them for other purposes!
After all, its about making your home look its best for selling!
Contact us if you need advice to sell your home, we are here to help. Charles Gubbins +34 607 911 661 / Stephanie Noll +34 607 465 383
