If you’re ready to put your Rancho Mirage or Palm Desert property on the market, then it’s time to prepare your house for all the prospective buyers that will come through it. While Palm Springs homes for sale are in demand, you still need to highlight your home’s strengths, while de-emphasizing its weaknesses. Try these home-staging tips to appeal to the widest range of potential buyers.
- Alleviate clutter. This is, by far, one of the most important things you can do maximize your home’s appeal. Often times, an owner will have one of the most beautiful Palm Springs homes for sale, but the cluttered look makes the property appear smaller and is too overwhelming for the potential buyer to see past. Avoid having too much furniture; in fact, get rid of whatever you don’t need. The house will appear much more spacious and you’ll streamline your own move.
- Establish the right lighting. Have you ever noticed how staged homes look so warm and inviting? Nine times out of ten, it’s due to great lighting. Increase the wattage in your fixtures and strive to have ambient, task and accent lighting in every room.
- Group furniture. A mistake that many amateurs make when selling a home is to push all the furniture against the walls to make the rooms appear bigger. A better route is to position furniture into conversation groupings and allow the pieces to indicate the room’s flow.
- Create the illusion of space. Two easy tricks that will maximize the size of a room are to paint it the same color as the room next to it, as well as the draperies or window treatments. This will make the rooms appear seamless and spacious. If you’re selling a Rancho Mirage or Palm Desert property with a patio, paint it green to make it blend and reflect the gorgeous colors outside.
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