If you’d like more home staging design tips, you should check out the Staging Diva Ultimate Design Guide: Home Staging Tips, Tricks and Floor Plans written by Debra Gould. It covers every single space of a home and offers advice along with my own before and after photos and floor plans for reference.
When staging a house to sell, you can’t just ignore a room because it presents a staging challenge, or because you don’t think it would be as important as staging the kitchen or bathroom.
The goal of home staging is to have a buyer make a strong emotional connection with a property and who’s to say their dream isn’t to have a study in the attic or a craft room in the basement?
Your job is to make the property you’ve been hired to stage appeal to as many people as possible. This means you have to pay careful attention to every room of a house because you can’t assume nobody will care what the basement, garage or attic looks like.
If you have a usable attic to work with when you’re staging a house, show buyers how much storage they’ll have when they buy the property. Don’t let the homeowners cram all of their stuff up there to hideit while the house is on the market. Have them move their things into storage and / or donate unused items to charity instead.
- Get piles of stuff off the floor and tucked away neatly in closets and cupboards.
- Repaint the walls if needed.
- If there’s a dusty old carpet on the floor, suggest replacing it with laminate.
- Add lighting so it’s as bright as possible.
All of these decorating tips will go a long way towards creating an attractive and usable space in the attic of a home you’re staging.
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