House Sales Tips on the Kitchen

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

"A kitchen can make or break a home when you are trying to sell it so it is very important that we spend a lot of time and attention on staging your kitchen appropriately. One thing that we always want to make sure is the counter tops is clear of any clutter. A lot of times we have toasters, we have coffee makers, we have small appliances that we use on a day to day basis. When you are selling your home and have it on a market, you want your counter tops to be clear of small appliances as much as possible. Cannisters, all of those things need to go either at the top of your cabinet or they can go lower at the bottom. Another thing that is important is to take time to reorganize any cabinets or drawers you have in the kitchen. If they are cluttered, we all have a junk drawer in our kitchen. But if it is cluttered, you are going to give buyers the impression that you know that this house is not quite big enough for my needs and we don't want to give them that impression. So organizing your cabinets in your kitchen to make them very clean and well organized and neat, you give buyers the impression that this house has plenty of space, plenty of storage for all of my things."