Home sellers everywhere have recognized the effectiveness of home staging in ensuring a faster home selling transaction. Home staging is very much like dressing your home and making it look more attractive to a large number of buyers.

1. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips
for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale
(Part 2)
Authored by: Petra Norris

2. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
Home sellers everywhere have recognized the effectiveness of home staging in ensuring
a faster home selling transaction. Home staging is very much like dressing your home
and making it look more attractive to a large number of buyers.
When people talk about home staging, the idea of hiring a professional home stager is
almost always considered. To save on the cost people are considering doing home
staging by themselves. Out of all the plethora of home staging tips found on the internet,
we have researched and listed the top 10 low cost home staging tips for you.

3. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
In my previous, we shared with you the first 5 tips to kick-start your home staging.
Starting with the curb, cleaning away, sorting and storing, doing all the mini-fixes, and
repainting are some of the things you can tackle together with your family. Read on to
find the last 5 low cost tips to stage your home and make it sell faster.

4. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
6. Rearrange
When rearranging the items inside your house, the most effective way to start is to enter the room and
examine it as if your are seeing it for the first time. Too much familiarity with how things are may
hinder you from making logical and necessary changes. Also, try to ask yourself these questions: What
grabs my attention when I first enter the room? Is it what I want buyers to notice? What is the focal
point of this room? Can visitors move freely from one room to another without bumping into
obstructions?
Generally, the idea is for buyers to see the selling points of your home. It helps if you start with a clean
slate and move the furniture and items in one at a time, starting with the focal point. All the other items
should be placed in consideration of that single item. Seek the help of your family and friends as this
may take a long time if you do it alone.

5. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
7. Improve lighting
A bright and well-lit house is always preferable. It helps buyers see the features of your
home and helps you present it to them in a more attractive way. Visit every room and
check the bulbs. Replace old ones and consider using higher wattage. Open the windows
and let natural light in as much as possible. Clear anything that would blocks the light.
Lighting is an important consideration not just in staging but also during your home’s
photoshoot. Choose the time of day when your house looks bright and well-lit.

6. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
8. Use fresh and clean curtains and bed covers
This is very simple. But never underestimate its effect. Picture this: A clean, well
organized room, with pleasing colors and wonderful lighting. The the old and smelly
curtains and bed covers ruin everything. If you have ready clean curtains and bed covers
to use, then that is best. But if you don’t, it would be well worth it to invest in these
things as they create such a huge difference on a room’s general appeal. Be sure to
choose colors that blend well with the room.

7. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
9. Take care of the smell
Studies have proven that scents have an effect on a person’s decision to purchase things.
We can apply this to home purchasing. You won’t want potential buyers to be turned off
by unpleasant smells coming from the trash, pet food, bathrooms, or sink. Bring in a
friend, since two noses are better than one. Locate sources of unpleasant smells and deal
with those individually. Finally, try to make pleasant smells spread through the house.
Studies have shown that the smell of brewed coffee, good food cooking or baking entice
buyers the most.

8. Top 10 Low Cost Home Staging Tips for Your Lakeland Fl Home for Sale (Part 2)
10. Consider music
Since we have covered the looks and smell of your home, it’s time you pay attention to what
you want visitors to hear. Have soothing music which is loud enough to hear in the background.
Music can help set the mood when showing your house. If possible, it is also nice to let natural
sounds in like birds chirping or trees swaying. It is important to make the right choice on this.
Again, hearing the opinion of friends and family won’t hurt.
We hope you find these 10 tips useful. Carefully evaluate what you have done so far to make
your home more appealing. Put yourself in the buyers’ shoes and determine what works well
and what wouldn’t break your budget when staging your home. When you work with an
experienced agent and follow these cheap home staging tips, your Lakeland Fl home for sale will
surely sell faster that you expected.

9. Petra Norris Realtor®
Lakeland FL Homes for Sale
CDV TransAtlantic, Inc.
PO Box 92050, Lakeland, FL, 33804-2050
Office Phone: (863) 619-6918
Cell Phone: (863) 712-4207