Making your house look bigger before a sale

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Selling your house can be an exciting but stressful experience. You’re probably eager to move on and get the next chapter of your life started, but before you move to your new ideal destination, there’s the matter of your current place to consider. 

While real estate brokers may offer dream home experiences here, you’ll need to make your current home as attractive as possible before you can make that sale happen and embark on the next step in your life.

To get you there faster, here are some tips that’ll help make your home look bigger and more spacious. 

Remove your clutter 

Buyers don’t always get enough time to inspect your home. If they’re only getting a brief glance of your home’s storage potential, all they’ll notice is how cluttered it looks. Anything that distracts a buyer from the open spaces of a room should be removed immediately. 

Get rid of those toys and magazines. Take the time to declutter your bookshelves and countertops. Show people the potential spaces available. If you can get them to imagine how their personal items would fit into each room, you’ve almost got a sale. 

Choose one focal point in each room 

Keeping things simple is key here. Too many focal points are only going to distract viewers of your home. Pick one focal point that pulls the attention of a potential buyer. This can be windows, a fireplace, or even a piece of fine art. Try to ration the furniture around this focal point too, or consider making a ‘U’ shape instead of putting them too close to it. 

Welcome in more natural light 

In the rush to prepare your home for a viewing, many people forget to open windows and let nature light up the spaces in their homes. Natural brightness is a great way of opening up the potential of your spaces and helps to illuminate the most attractive parts of the room. 

Add white to your smaller spaces

This doesn’t mean you have to remove every last drop of color from your room. It’s more about complementing the room by adding white in the right places. For example, white covers can make a bed appear larger, and white walls can make hallways and bedrooms appear bigger too. 

Strategically placed mirrors can make a difference 

Well-placed mirrors not only offer the illusion of more dimensions in a room, but they also help to make a room appear far bigger than it actually is. As long as you situate your mirrors at a reasonable height, people will step into your rooms and see a far larger open space. 

Walk through your house as a potential buyer 

Try to walk through each room as if you’re someone who has never set foot in your house before. Focus on how easy it is to move around, and whether any unnecessary furniture can be removed. Try to be as critical as possible about your space, and you’ll soon start to see the buyer’s point of view, which is the final step before making that all-important sale!