These are some of the little things can make a huge difference on the sale process. It might be just a clumsy painter’s-mistake, but it can also show that there are structural problems with the house itself. I would highly recommend when you are preparing the property for sale, to ask a professional if you have cracks on walls. If the structure of the property is in a good condition you can fix and fill in the cracks. Imagine yourself in the buyers situation. When you go to a property which is on sale, with the intention to buy it for hundreds of thousands of pounds, would you like to buy one which is seemingly falling apart? As your personal home stager I would confidently say, most people would buy the first one.

Remember that time when you were cooking the rice, helping your kid with the homework, putting the laundry on the wash and ironing the clothes at the same time? That was the time when this happened. It was years and years ago, that mark always reminds you of taking it easy once in a while. For you is a distant memory, for the future new owners it is a big pain as their first thought will be, ‘how much will it cost me to replace the whole carpet’. In the home staging process we can discover these flows together and work on them towards a successful property sale. If it is possible to get rid of it (coffee or food marks) do try, if you have to replace a part of the carpet as it is not removable (burns and cuts) ask a professional and find a colour matching piece.

It can be grandma’s beloved old armchair, a rug which survived many generations or grandpa’s old army truck model which was so precious to him. Sometimes we overlook many items which we have emotional connection with, however the years shown on them. Colour fading, partly missing material, deep dirt, cracks on material, scratch lines and so on. A home stager can help you to see these again which can help you to sell your property faster and for a better price.

If you are a family person, you might have many pictures even a future wall with photographs of your loved ones. I must say as an interior designer that is a great thing to have. However form a home stager point of view it is not as recommended. Our goal with home staging is to make the buyers at viewings imagining themselves living in the property. We want them to feel themselves home. When you leave your personal items, pictures, things with your name on it, even that is consciously clear you are still living there. However on a subconscious level it blocks the buyers to feel and imagine the property as their own. If you would like to prevent that as your personal home stager I recommend you to remove these items at least for the time of the viewing. This can make the sale faster and increase the chance of a higher price.

Your favourite style is Art Deco and you adore vivid colours in your home? Nothing is wrong with that. Are you an animal print lover and your home is covered in it from tiger stripe walls to zebra print sofas? Nothing is wrong with that. Are you a collector of vintage items and love them to be displayed all around you? Nothing is wrong with that. However when you are setting up your property for sale, you need to think of the buyers head and see with their eyes. As a future owner would they buy this property? Probably they are minimalists, or they love the Renaissance. They might want to change things around. To be honest 99% of the buyers will change things as they would like to see themselves in their surroundings. Not many people have the captivity of imagining the place when the changes are done. What we can help them with in home staging is to create the white/plain canvas to work on. That is why we stick to natural colours to leave enough gap to ‘imagine their own style’ in the property which we are trying to sell to them.

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