Staging your Home for the Holidays
If the key to effective home staging is minimalism and simplicity, then sellers may feel extra challenged trying to create festivity in their homes while it is on the market over the holiday season. How do you always be ready for the potential showing and buyer that may want to see your home at this time of year?
Although it may not feel like the best time of year to be selling your home over the holidays, the good news is that a booked showing usually means a serious buyer and your holiday staging may just get you that sold sign. Finding creative and simple ways to stage your home during the holidays may allow that next buyer to picture their lives ringing in 2020 in your home.
Festive lighting and stylish trimmings over the holiday season can warm up every home inside and out, and can absolutely enhance your spaces. To make every potential showing staged in a no-fuss, stress-free way, you can follow these tips to not only help stage your home for the holidays but allow you to enjoy it throughout the season.
Outdoor First Impressions Matter
Snow often helps add a radiance after the dead leaves and mud of November but also can create a mess. A pretty mat for boot-stomping and simple urns adorned with lights can help those evening dark showings inviting. Simple string lighting and green boughs are enough to showcase the naturally attractive features of your home. If you love the bigger and better decor options at Canadian Tire, my best advice is less is more. Save your blow-up Santa and reindeer for another year!
Think Warm and Cozy
Opening the front door to your home from the cold will be instantly welcoming with a pretty entrance inside and out. Scents of nutmeg and cinnamon, a cranked furnace and holiday instrumental music are gifts to you as a seller to make your home cozy and inviting. The key is not to add holiday decor to your home but rather replace it with decor for the season. Removing the clutter and extra decor from your home till January will give you the minimalist feel a staged home needs. Think neutral as much as possible! Blankets, candles, fireplace and natural elements will make that buyer dream of cozy winter days potentially living in your home as the new owner.
Twinkle lights are a Magnet
Indoors and outdoors, mini twinkle lights create an ambiance like no other. Tasteful and subtle additions to spaces with twinkle lights indoors and outdoors can add an ambiance like no other. Even your tree can be “enough” with just twinkle lights and minimal ornaments added.
Be Inclusively Driven with your Decor
No matter what you believe or celebrate, or how you do it during the holidays, try to avoid that statement in your holiday staging. This might be the year to not highlight your nativity scene or menorah in the centre of your home. There are beautiful ways to spark your own holiday joy without defining your beliefs.
Even if your house is not on the market over the holiday season, you may wish to adopt these strategies as you look forward to potentially making a move next year. Enjoy entertaining your social circles over the holidays, knowing that it will offer your guests a welcoming feel of your home that may just lead you to a buyer if that is your goal in the coming year.
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