Inexpensive Home Staging Ideas

Home staging ideas come in many forms, most of the time the ones you find at magazines and websites are quite expensive for the average homeowner planning to sell the house.  Most home staging ideas recommend that you purchase new furniture and stuff, ones that can cost from average to expensive.  But the truth is you can stage your house on a beer budget and still greatly improve your chances of selling the house.  The most important factor perhaps is to detach yourself emotionally from the house.

Your home is a special place for you, no doubt about it.  However when the time has come that you want to get it listed as for sale, the best thing that you can do to erase any attachments for the house is to look at it in the perspective of a new buyer.  This entails that you should remove all photographs, artwork, furniture, or any item that you consider personal.  You must understand that the goal of home staging is to create a home that everyone can feel at home at.  Once you have done that, you have raised the chances of your house getting sold.

Other inexpensive home staging ideas include simple things like putting mirrors that reflect light into smaller space.  This will make the space seem larger.  Also, remove unnecessary clutter and furniture from these rooms to make the room more spacious.  You have to remember that for most buyers, it doesn’t have to be big; it just has to look spacious. 

Apply neutral colored paint to your walls to enhance the value of the house.  It doesn’t have to be the over the top paint colors.  Simple and neutral yet modern colors will do the magic.

Too much furniture will make the room look and feel cramped.  Even if the room is large you should place minimal furniture and accessories.  For the kitchen and bathrooms, remove all used items such as soap and shampoos to make a ready-for-occupancy feel.  Place plush towels in the bathroom area to make it look more luxurious and relaxing and not a cold, damp area.

These are some affordable yet effective home staging ideas that you can employ when you decide to sell your house.  A budget of a few hundred dollars can do the trick and may be more than enough to make your house very warm and inviting to the buyers.