December 20, 2010
Selling Your Home During the Holidays? Stage with Care!
Less than a week to Christmas! No doubt life is getting crazy as you start to feel more pressure to get everything ready for the holidays. In the event that you are selling your home, you can add the daunting task of keeping your home readying for showing, staged, and picture perfect.
If you are selling your home during this especially busy season, here are some simple rules to remember:
Do: Put up a nice & welcoming wreath on your door.
Don’t: Deck out the home with Santa Clauses, menorahs or other religious symbols.
Do: Subtle (or almost none) holiday cheers decoration.
Don’t: Go big on the holiday decor (you are selling home, not holiday decorations!)
Do: Apply the general rules of staging as you would rest of the year, such as refraining yourself from over-decorating. Be mindful of making buyers feel like they are intruding into your personal space. For example, refrain from displaying your personal holiday styles, and resist decking your mantel out with your personal photos.
Do: De-clutter and donate to charities. Goodwill & Salvation Army are good places to start. They also come to your home to pick up your unused and unneeded items. The rejected pile can be taken cared of by many services offered in your local area.
Do: When in doubt, hire a professional. Sometimes it’s just worth so much more to pay someone else to do the dirty work and have peace of mind. Need to hire a professional? Read our previous post on 5 Tips on How to Hire a Stager
Photo credit: Leo, Green Parlour, Home Goods, and Best Home Gallery.
Note: Staged4more is an eco-friendly company and we believe in recycling everything, including blogposts. This post is part of a weekly series of refreshed posts we’re calling “Restyled” from our earlier blogging years. This post was originally written in December, 2006 and has been “Restyled” for your reading pleasure. Let us know what you think!
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