Staging Tip for Home Sellers: Furniture

Remove excess furniture from the rooms in your home. Potential buyers want to see if their furniture will fit and if you have grandma's extra dresser filled with doilies and grandpa's night stand filled with pipes in addition to your own bed set, the room will look cluttered and worst of all SMALL. You want your rooms to look as large as possible and this effect is created by less furniture not more. As ridiculous as it sounds, potential buyers will judge your home by your furniture to a certain degree. So if you have very dated or tattered items, you may want to consider an upgrade or at least removing them to someones garage until your house is sold. Best advice is to have an objective 3rd party (real estate agent would be the best choice) look at your home with fresh eyes and give you the harsh reality about the way your home will show to a potential buyer. This isn't the best part of our job, but it will help your home sell faster and for more money, which is our goal as well as yours. So remember it's not a personal attack, we know it is hard for someone living in a house to see the small things that turn off buyers because you "don't" see them everyday.