If you’re selling your home in Midland, your REALTOR® will talk to you about staging – the art of making your home as attractive as possible to prospective buyers. One of the most important rooms you can stage is the kitchen, so here’s what you need to know.
Your REALTOR may suggest that you hire a professional home stager before you put your home on the market – but if that’s not in the cards for you, here are five kitchen staging tips you can use now:
- Clean everything
- Ruthlessly declutter
- Organize the entire room
- Make small upgrades
- Add colorful accents
Here’s a closer look at each.
Expert Kitchen Staging Tip #1: Clean Everything
You may want to hire a professional cleaner to scrub your home from top to bottom before you list it for sale. Generally, professional cleaners can free up your time to work on more important things – and even better, they’ll be done with the whole job in a day or less. (If you’re like most people, you’ll start cleaning and then something will come up to distract you. Hiring a pro helps you dodge that issue!)
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Expert Kitchen Staging Tip #2: Ruthlessly Declutter
Go through every cabinet and drawer, including your pantry, as well as your refrigerator and freezer. Remove anything you haven’t used in six months or more. Your goal here is to show buyers that there’s plenty of storage space in your kitchen.
You can donate, throw out or sell the items you haven’t used in the past several months, or you can pack them up and store them for use at your new home. The point is getting them out of your cabinets so buyers see that there’s enough space available for all their kitchen items.
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Expert Kitchen Staging Tip #3: Organize the Entire Room
Buyers can – and will – open your cabinets and drawers, so make sure everything is neat and organized. The purpose behind organizing is to show prospective buyers that your space is easy to maintain; essentially, you’re selling a lifestyle.
You don’t have to put your soups and dry goods in alphabetical order, but you do need to keep similar items together and ensure that everything is neat.
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Expert Kitchen Staging Tip #4: Make Small Upgrades
If your faucets, light fixtures or drawer pulls are outdated, now’s a great time to make upgrades. You can generally find modern kitchen touches at your favorite home improvement store, and most are simple to do yourself. Talk to your REALTOR to find out whether investing in minor upgrades is worth spending your time, money and energy on – if he or she says it’s a good idea, it’s because buyers will appreciate it.
Expert Kitchen Staging Tip #5: Add Colorful Accents
You want the counters to be free from appliances (we’re looking at you, toaster and blender) and pretty much everything else. However, a colorful accent or two will help show buyers that your kitchen is a comfortable, easy place to spend time. Think about adding a fruit basket with colorful seasonal fruits, propping a recipe book open on a small stand, or adding a jar of cinnamon sticks adorned with a colorful ribbon.
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