Staging to Sell

Summer, being the most popular time of the year for families to make a move, I wanted to be able to best serve my current listing clients with tips on simple decor updates they can make to maximize the appeal for home-buyers. 

If you're still waiting on your buyer, or your listing is approaching expiration, or most importantly - if you've already vacated your home and it's now on the market as a vacant property, consider staging/re-staging the main living area of your home.  Ask your realtor to host an open house and stage your home to show it's functionality and style in a new way, appealing to a group of buyers who may be feeling the crunch to settle on a decision before school starts.

I've researched this year's design trends (links attached below), and there are two main areas to focus on when staging your home:  Painting and Minimalizing.

Paint/Decor:  While the overwhelming desire for clear, clean and casual living spaces with natural textures have stuck around as the preferred style (transitional and modern farmhouse) for the last three years, the biggest difference I've seen, beyond brass making a come-back as brushed gold, is the saturation of colors.  We're still in love with the class and cleanliness of grey, and the muted pastel hues as accents, but we're getting a little more risky with the tints of rich colors with grey undertones, particularly the gemstone hues for a deep blue-grey or mossy green-grey.  Deep, dark grey and navy are the new neutral.  Want to make a big impact?  add brushed or satin gold fixtures to your saturated paint!  Keeping the texture trend going, consider resurfacing a wall with brick facing and white-wash the brick, layer your area rugs, consider textured wall paper or adding wooden planks to an accent wall (Thanks, Joanna Gaines for making "shiplap" a household word!) 

If you're scared to make the bold statements with more saturated paint colors, consider adding the color to your pillows, throws and fixtures instead.  But don't get carried away with the accessories.  Remember, 2019 buyers are looking for modern minimalism:  Clear spaces, shiny surfaces, clean lines.  A house that doesn't look like you're living in it, doesn't come across at sterile or without character; it comes across as a classy, clean slate, better than new build, full of potential, and ready to add their personal style!




https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/g25096141/color-trends-2019/

https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/color/g24400315/color-trends-2019/