Home staging can be really complicated because there is so much to do that knowing where to start if you are doing it yourself is as important as the home staging process itself.  In any real estate market, you will find yourself spending hundreds to thousands of dollars just to make your house stand out from the competition.  But are you sure that you will be able to recoup the costs?  Do you know where to exactly start with the home staging project?  See here what re the basic ways to lowering the costs of home staging.

Good lighting is perhaps the most effective way to sell your home.  When a buyer looks through your house, they will explore every detail during their exploration.  Once a buyer sees a burned out light bulb or lamp and in consequence is unable to see the details of a room or closet space, then they won’t have a very good impression of your house.  Make sure to replace all old bulbs with new ones to ensure they are working especially when a buyer checks out your place.

Another way to lower the costs of home staging is to clean the gutters outside of your house.  How your home looks outside almost makes up 50% of the buyer’s first impression.  If they see that the gutters outside the house are cluttered with leaves and other debris.  It will make them think that house maintenance is very poor.  Buyers don’t want to inherit a seller’s cleaning problems so better to clean up your act and start cleaning those gutters.

Clear the kitchen counter space.  Kitchens are the heart of the home and this means buyers will want to know if there will be room to grow in that space.  Clear away unnecessary counter appliances and kitchen decorations to give the buyers an impression of more space.

Paint high traffic spaces.  These areas are the best places to find unwanted marks on the walls which may look like poor maintenance but are actually signs of daily wear and tear. Paint the walls in high traffic spaces.

Lowering the costs of home staging can be a pretty daunting task, but they are actually pretty simple to pull off.  You just have to know these basic stuff so that when the time comes that you need to stage your home, you will only have to spend a few hundreds of dollars and even before you know it, you have already recouped your expenses for the home staging.