Make a Home Look More Expensive

When you are getting ready to sell your home, there are many things that have to be done so the house is in excellent condition when potential buyers come to look at it.

Home staging is very important and whether you do it, or hire a professional to do it, certain things should be done to make the home look and have a feeling of being in fashion and up to date. This brings up the age old problem of having to re-do the home and possibly having to go buy new pieces of furniture, or accessories.

Unfortunately, there is not just one place to find home staging supplies, so being creative is important, not only in what you use, but what you buy, and then how you use it.  You can get some ideas from your close friends.

Here are five ways to make your home’s interior look more expensive, and in fashion, but not at the cost of your bottom line:

1.  Use one expensive piece of furniture, or other item, in each room, well positioned.  It can be a piece of art, a table or something rare and expensive like valued china. The expensive piece(s) should be the focus of attention as soon as someone walks into that room.   This is what they see first. First impressions!

2.  Use white. It has always, and will always be a staple that professional home stagers use. It radiates of light, cleanliness, and open space. Try using inexpensive white pieces on an expensive table or other piece.

3.  Look at what can be recycled. Try recovering a favorite chair or sofa.  Much of the furniture of past years had great design and great lines and sometimes are worth recovering and restoring them back to life.

4.  Rotate your theme colors, and do it in each room if possible. Every new season, the design world changes the “what’s-in” color.  A good way to make your home look in-style, is to have that in-style color. Visit some ‘in’ stores in your area, and see what they are doing with different colors, how they are using them, and which is the most popular.  You will get lots of good ideas.

5.  Don’t buy new furniture or accessories at the beginning of any new season.

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