THE SIMPLE MISTAKES THAT CAN KEEP YOU FROM THAT SALE

1. Staging to Scale

Every home seller wants to create the illusion of more space. And the biggest mistake is to opt for small scale items to create more space.

That tactic can actually shrink a home. Instead, make sure your furniture and accessories match the room in scale and proportion. Don't go for the short shelves in the high ceiling office or the small sectional couch in the over sized den.

Potential buyers should walk in and feel like there's room for hosting the people in their lives. If the furniture used for staging is too small, the space just won't convey that feeling.

2. Boldly Patterned or Colored Area Rugs

The patterned rug your client bought a few years ago might be their favorite item, but it won't become anyone else's. Trust us, your open house will do better without it. It will also overwhelm small space the second you unroll it.

3. Pushing All the Furniture Against the Walls

Nothing can make a room look more boring or boxy than pushing all the furniture up against the walls. You may think, this is more open, but it hardly ever looks appealing and will always make a large room look empty and a small room look cluttered.

4. Empty Bed Frames or Cheap Linens

The name of the room says it all, Bedroom. Even in a 1,000 square foot master suite, a king sized bed will still take up the weight of the space. It is impossible for a bed to NOT BE the focal point.

That means cheap, wrinkled linens or pillows, or, empty bed frames might leave your potential buyer feeling like sleeping in this bedroom might be more of a nightmare.

5. Displaying Fake Food or Dinner Settings

The job of a stager is to draw your guests into the home so they can imagine themselves actually living there. Even though they know it’s fake, they subconsciously still want to play along because it feels good.

Setting up fake fruit displays, plastic wine and cheese plates, or overdone table settings, might pull them right out of the smoke and mirrors, and into the reality that they don't live there, and that is a bubble you don't want to burst.