Staging Your Toronto Home Or Condo For The Ultimate Selling Success
A couple of years ago, there emerged a series of home decorating and renovation television shows that heavily populated Home and Garden Television and The Learning Channel. They took a slight hiatus, and made room for a plethora of reality shows about families with small armies of children. Now, they’re back and many of these shows, such The Unsellables on HGTV, focus on turning any space into a dream home by merely moving things around, adding a few low-cost pieces or by making optimal use of the space that the home already has.
A simple paint job using the right colours can help your Toronto home sell.
Remove extra clutter
Just because a couch fits into a room doesn’t mean that it suits the room, and it can actually end up making the space look smaller. You can make a smaller home feel like it has much more space by removing just one piece of furniture per room. This furniture can go into storage, stay with friends for the time being or you can jump on the opportunity to lighten your load prior to moving by selling or donating it. By removing unnecessary furniture, many of the rooms in your home can instantly become clean-looking and uncluttered.
Simplify the decor as much as possible, with a piece of art here and there and fresh flowers in any vases. Items you may not ordinarily consider “personal clutter” like bathroom mats, towels, anything hung up on a coat rack or kitchen appliances (this means you, coffee maker) can be hidden away in closets or under the kitchen counter to create even more space.
The deliberate placement of some furniture around a room can also increase the perceived amount of space it can offer. Lamps on each corner table will illuminate these corners and add depth to a room, and curtains on every window will highlight their size. Specifically, sheer, white curtains, which can be inexpensive and are available at many home stores.
Renovating to sell
Sometimes, a home might need more than just a fresh coat of paint. However, if you don’t bother to do a renovation when it’s needed, someone may just buy your home and flip it. So why not cash in on that work yourself?
This is the Appraisal Institute of Canada’s renovation value calculator worksheet.
Using current market values, it can let you know how much money you can expect to recuperate on any renovation investment. For example, a $5,000 bathroom renovation will boost the home’s value by between $3,800 and $5,000, or offer a return of 75% to 100%. The calculator has a list of the top 25 home renovations for boosting value, including kitchen renovations, exterior painting and paving a driveway. It’s a great little tool to see how a renovation might affect your home’s potential sale price.
However, a fresh coat of paint may be the only thing the rooms in your house need for a slight pick-me-up and it can make a world of difference. Keep in mind that while some prospective home buyers will absolutely love a bold, brightly coloured room, some will not. In order to not alienate the “dislike” crowd, choose appropriately toned-down shades.
Prospective home buyers know that they can repaint and redecorate to their own satisfaction if there’s a few things they don’t like about how the home looks. Diligently staging a home will take some of the guesswork out of home buying for the prospective buyers and allow them to really see what the home actually offers with regards to space – instead of showcasing merely the home’s potential.
Staging Your Toronto Home Or Condo For The Ultimate Selling Success is a post from: Toronto Real Estate Updates