When selling a home, it is very important that it be light and bright. Buyers do not respond well to dark spaces.
Here are a few home staging tips and tricks to brighten up your home:
- Remove screens from windows – this lets more of the natural light through
- Wash the windows – seems to be common sense, but you’d be surprised at what a difference it makes!
- Remove awnings from windows and over doors
- Trim or remove overgrown bushes and trees that are in front of windows
Replace drapes with sheers where possible – sheers provide warmth and softness to a room but still let the light show through- Swap out low wattage bulbs for higher wattage ones
- Keep all lights turned on during an open house or showings
- Use uplighting in dark corners – either a tall floor lamp called a torchiere or a can light placed on the floor
- Place wall and floor mirrors where they can reflect natural
- Use neutral paint colors on the walls
- Brighten up dark furnishings with throw pillows or a table runner in bright colors
Doing these simple and inexpensive changes to “lighten and brighten” when selling your home can reap its rewards – a 355% return on your investment, according to aHome Gain survey from 2007.
