Maximize your living room's appeal when selling your home with these expert staging tips. From decluttering and using neutral colours to optimizing furniture layout and creating inviting focal points, this guide will help you transform your space into a buyer-friendly haven.
The Living room is one of the big hitters when decorating your home for selling. This is the space that the new buyers and you spend much time in. The goal is to ensure the space is dressed to appeal to as many as possible.
Here are a few tips to get your living room snuff for buyers.
Tip #1: Declutter
This may seem obvious, but decluttering and getting everything out of the way will make the space more appealing. The more apparent magazines and kids' toys must be out of sight.
Still, many people don’t think about the personal effects littered around your home that need to be removed—family photos, trophies, awards and any souvenirs you may have.
These items must all be removed from the home, which may seem counterproductive. However, it is to let the buyer be able to project their life in the space and imagine living in the house.
Tip #2: Neutralise, Neutralise, Neutralise
Having bold colours and bright wallpaper can make a room seem smaller; using a trusty neutral tone on the walls will make the space feel larger and improve the saleability of the space.
Bold patterns and bright colours can also show a personal style. When selling a home, you want to entice as many people as possible. Having neutral-toned walls creates a blank canvas upon which buyers can project their personal décor style.
Tip #3: Flooring
Living rooms are often carpeted, and for maximum buyer love,the carpets need to be clean and smell fresh.
To achieve that fresh smell, you can either:
- Shampoo your carpet yourself
- Hire Professional Cleaners
Tip #4: Furniture
The wrong furniture can devalue the room; the living room being such a big room for sale, the wrong furniture can devalue your property.
Most living room furniture issues hinge on one of three things.
1. Too much furniture in the space makes it feel cramped.
2. It looks old and is worn.
3. It's out of scale for the room
If your living room feels cramped, the best frame to followis a two-person sofa, two side tables and a coffee table.
Any more than this will make the average living room feelcramped. This space is vital, so be ruthless with this step and remove as muchas necessary.
Is your furniture looking beat up and worn out from years oflove? You could have it professionally cleaned, place a neutral-coloured throwover it, or hire new furniture for the sale.
Tip #5: Create a focal point
Creating a focal point in any room when selling is important. In the living room, the focus point is often the TV set.
Buyers prefer living room spaces that aren’t dominated bya television set.
It's an easy fix: move around furniture and create aconversational environment by moving sofas across from each other with e acoffee table in the middle. An L shape is also good if there is no space forthat.
Move the television into the corner of the room discreetlyout of the way.
Finding the focal point is easy; walk into the room and think about the first things you notice.
That is a focal point; they need to be attractive; if something is catching your eye that you don’t like, remove it.
Positive focal points include fireplaces and garden views.
If these are not options for your living room, some other great options for focal points are:
- A well-placed mirror
- An engaging piece of artwork
- Fresh flowers in a vase
Finishing touches
All left to do now is add some aspects of personality to theroom. Adding in an accent secondary colour to the colour scheme of the room isa great way to inject a bit of life into the room. You can do this using:
· Cushions
· Throws
· A rug
· Vases
· Artwork
And finally, adding some layered lighting can be a great way to create a variety of the feel of a room. The layered lighting could include:
· Table lamps to soften the space
· Creating a reading corner/chair by placing a specific task light beside a chair.
· Wall-mouthed lights or free-standing lights to defuse the ceiling light.
The key thing to remember is that with lifestyle rooms, you want to create something inspirational for buyers. If they believe that you lead a good life within your home, they will think this good life awaits them also!
