How to Prepare Your House for Buyers

Series Summary

In this series of free home sales videos, our professional interior designer and home staging expert gives you insider tips on how to get your house ready for the big sale. The first step is to depersonalize your home, take down photos and other personal items which mark the home as your own. This step helps potential buyers to imagine their home as their own rather than yours. Along the same lines, you need to remove the clutter from your bedrooms and bathrooms so the rooms don't seem crowded and overstuffed. If you don't have enough space to store away all of your possessions, then buyers worry that they might not either.

Once your clean-up is complete, our expert tells you how to streamline the presentation of your home by creating a welcoming atmosphere with proper furniture arrangement and friendly color schemes. Always situate your couch facing visitors as they walk into a room. Add plush towels and washcloths to your bathrooms to create an aura of luxury. Put this great advice to use and you will sell your house in no time!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelley Johnson with K. Nicole Redesign for Expert Village. One of the things that is really critical when you're staging your home to sell is function. You want to make sure that each room in your house has one function. The function that it was intended when the builder designed your house. So, a lot of times, the way that we live in our home is going to be very different from the way that we stage our home. So, in real life, we may use a study as a workout room and a study. When we stage a home to sell, we really want buyers to have a very simple impression of your home so that the function of the room is very clear. When we have rooms that have a multiple purpose, what that sends to the buyer is a message. And that message is, this home isn't big enough to accommodate all of my needs. If I have to multi-task in a room, then that means that the house isn't big enough. And we don't want to give the buyers the illusion that the house isn't big enough. So, we're in a study right now and we've staged this room so that it functions as a study. We have accessories in here that really give buyers the impression that this room is about business, this room is about making work, getting things done. "