Home Staging Tips: How to Boost Curb Appeal

Home staging is the tried, tested and successful way of getting your home sold as quick as it can. Your house undergoes inspection, de-cluttering, general cleaning, and styling – to be primped up to an inch of its worth so that a potential homebuyer somewhere out there falls in love with it. And when it comes to love, there is of course what we call love at first sight. In real estate speak, this means boosting curb appeal. Home staging to boost curb appeal basically means that you also take into consider a very important factor in your house’s appear – its façade.

Even if you aren’t selling your home, you should have a welcoming exterior, if you want to do your home proud. But since you are in the business of selling a house, the following home staging tips can help you fix that front and boost curb appeal:

House numbers

Making sure the house numbers are very visible and are fixed is essential for the easy identification of your home by potential homebuyers who are looking into inspecting the place. Add character by swapping it with bigger numbers, the type of font typeface you select can also echo the tone and style of your house. More traditional houses might go with a serif type while modern renditions can be represented with bold numbers in sans serif.

Landscape and hardscape

Landscaping can of course be expensive but consider the use of planters and flowerboxes to spruce up the front yard. If it goes well with your house, you can also consider hardscaping, which uses concrete to build in paths, walls and planters in the front and create structure in the front.

Go pretty with a fence

Low white picket fences not only add charm to the front lawn of a property, it also gives the area a depth that makes the area appear bigger and gives it a certain privacy in the enclosure. It’s pretty with a purpose.

Spruce up the door

Add a splash of color by painting the door a bold hue that can be an accent color. Remember to consider the overall theme of your house and find that balance that will make the door color or design work for you. If it has a screen, please take that off, screen doors feel so 1990s and just might destroy the whole look of the front.

Repair and refresh before the home staging

Inspect the whole front and repair whatever needs to be fixed like broken windows, pathways, porch lighting, the side yard and even porch furniture. Refresh by making sure that everything is clean, having shiny windows can make a different and add fresh flowers and green plants to liven things up.

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