How to Prepare Your House for Buyers

Part of the Video Series Preparing to Sell a House

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Should you live in your house or stage it when preparing it to be sold in this free personal home finance video from our real estate and home design professional.

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How to Prepare Your House for Buyers
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.

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Expert: Kelley Nicole Johnson runs K. Nicole Redesign, which provides high-quality interior redesign and real estate staging services for premier homes in Collin and Dallas Counties. Read More