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Decide from the doorway. Since would-be buyers will get their first impression of each room from the doorway, homeowners should use that perspective to judge their staging work. Do your work, go back to the doorway. Do some more, go back to the doorway. That way, you'll be better able to ensure that each room appeals to buyers.

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Work in ones or threes. We recommend arranging items on top of hard surfaces in ones or threes. You would place three items—say, a lamp, a plant, and a book—on top of a larger hard surface, like an end table. "If you take away the plant and the book, it's too bare. "[But if] you put 10 things on it, it's overdone." The three items should be closely grouped together in a triangle shape. "I draw a triangle for my clients. For hard surfaces with less area, however, a single item will do.

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Balance hard and soft surfaces. When staging a particular room, it's essential to have a good balance of hard surfaces, such as a coffee-table top, and soft surfaces, like a carpet. For example, a room with a cushy, 7-foot-long sofa, a love seat, and four La-Z-Boy recliners has too many soft surfaces and not enough hard surfaces. "It's all too heavy." Instead, consider getting rid of the La-Z-Boys and the love seat, replacing them with two wingback chairs. "If you have hardwood floors but no rugs, it's too hard," ….So you want to add a rug.

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Pretend you're camping. A cluttered room will appear too small to buyers. "Clutter eats equity," …. Homeowners should go through each room of the house and divide their belongings into two piles: "keep" and "give up." Items in the "keep" pile will be used to stage the room, while those in the "give up" pile should be stored elsewhere. "Pretend you are camping…. "When you go camping, you are not taking all those books, right?" The decluttered rooms may appear bare to the seller, but the buyer won't think so. "We are not selling your things.... We are selling the space…. "And buyers cannot visualize when there is too much [stuff] in the room." Decluttering a home's outdoor spaces is important, too….

Faced with a huge amount of unsold homes, many would-be sellers are struggling to make their properties stand out in today's real estate market. But while the economic head winds are beyond property owners' control, they can dramatically improve their chances of making a sale by devoting attention to an often-overlooked corner of real estate marketing: home staging. "The goal [of home staging] is for the buyer to mentally move in. "If they cannot mentally feel and see themselves living here, you've lost them."

Get them inside. The first thing a prospective buyer notices about a home is not the living room but the front yard. "A lot of people think staging is the inside only". "[But] we've got to stage the outside to get them inside." So cut the grass, trim the hedges, rake those leaves, sweep the sidewalks, and power-wash the driveway. And make sure you don't have too many potted plants scattered around he property. "Nothing dead," ....."You'd be amazed how many people have dead plants in their yards."

There are more than 101 ways to increase the value of your property, but there are far fewer ways of adding value without spending a significant amount of money on home renovations.

As the housing market has come to a SLOW down, many homeowners are turning to better interior designs and furnishings to beautify their homes and try to increase the value of their property.

It is not always easy to increase the value of your property, however there are a few things to avoid. We have found that having a hot tub can take a toll on the value of your home (parents worry about safety and maintenance costs) and the installation of new carpet and flooring has a very minimal impact on the value of your property as many people prefer hardwood floors.

Increasing the value of your property sounds straightforward enough, but it is often trickier than many of us realize and we can often get it wrong.

Take a look at these three straightforward ways to increase the value of your property:

1- Let in the light

When you are looking to sell your home, it’s vital that you make every inch of your house as bright as possible. This can easily be achieved by allowing as much natural light through your home as possible; you may need to consider some newer, lighter window coverings and ditching the old dusty curtains.

If you allow natural light in your home and place mirrors on the adjacent wall, the light will reflect throughout the round to create the illusion of spaciousness, even in the smallest of rooms.

It’s crucial that when you are showing potential buyers around your home that your entrance hall is warm, clean and inviting. Remember that homebuyers will judge your home within seconds so it’s crucial.

2- Go minimalist

When you have been living in a place for more than five years, you often acquire a large amount of STUFF and furnishings. We advisable to de-clutter your home and remove any unnecessary items that are taking up valuable space; buyers are looking for space….

You should find that with the de-cluttering of your home the more light comes through your rooms, as it has less obstacles blocking its path.

3- Make the important rooms count

We have found that there a lot of value added to a property by replacing an old kitchen and bathrooms with a new one. If you feel that you can do a good job yourself, you could save yourself a third of the cost of hiring a builder by renovating it yourself. You can purchase show room model bathroom and kitchen materials and do some research for tips on how to install them. However if you are not handy….it would be to your best interest to hire someone to complete the renovations.  Turn rooms back to their original intensions..for an example the living room should not have a pool table in the middle of the room.