selling your home: create a welcoming environment

 

Personal Items. 

Remove if you can as many personal items as possible especially at eye level. Pictures (of your family, especially young kids) , wall or table  decoration, , bathroom and kitchen items on the counter.  

 

The idea is to create space(s) to help buyers visualize they are living there and for you to feel good to declutter and not have a stranger figure out what you like or who your kids are.

 

Lighting.

Try to make the lighting in your home or in the  rooms pleasant and enough/sufficient. Change the light bulbs and have the light coming in from the windows (blinds and curtains are left open). 

 

There is a rule of three. Have if you can three sources of light: lamps, desk lamps even.

 

Entrance/Foyer.

 

First impression is just outside and inside the home, the foyer. Tidy, clean (no spider webs) gets buyers excited and the olfactory sense is feeling great. The eyes are seeing abundance .

And the buyer is feeling good. Have if you can some space for jackets or footwear for the buyers to take off and roam around. More time

they spend in your home the better.

 

Entrances to the rooms.

Try not have the doors have personal stuff on them . Have the doors open so that the buyer can see the space and the cleanliness . If you can clean or have the closets organized.

Buyers would like to explore and see the rooms or home would work for their family.

 

Hence , creating a blank canvas or slate will assist the buyer to visualize them living there.