June's Home Selling Strategy- Increase Your Home's Value with Some Simple Staging

Staging your home is proven to increase your sale price up to seven percent, so it is definitly worth your time to evaluate your home room-by-room! Here are some quick tips to help play up your home's assests and downplay it's faults.

Living Rooms

Remember to look at your rooms through the buyers eyes, replace clutter and personal items with simple, neutral accessories to bring out the best in your living room!

1. Add interest to old hardwood flooring - replace any damaged boards by cutting them out and replacing with new. Then rent a sander from your local hardware store like Home Depot, and give the floor a good sanding. Then stain the floors with a rich color and watch your floor go from drab to fab in no time!
2. Built-ins- buyers love built-in bookshelves, however there is a fine line between filling them with clutter and staging to sell! To stage: arrange neutral items in clustes, make sure that no single accessory stand out too much so as to show off your attractive built-ins, not your personal belongings!

Next Room..... Kitchens....