Are you thinking about putting your lakefront home up for sale, but not sure where to begin? Scared it will take a long time to sell, or that you wont receive the price you are looking for? Consider staging your lake home, i.e., arranging the lake home to peak a buyers interest in the property.
It is very effective to stage both the inside and outside of your lakefront home. These are 3 tips to make the interior more appealing:
1. Remove unneeded items. By removing unneeded items you can make your home feel larger than it may actually be. Remove things that you do not have to have like furniture, seasonal decorations, seasonal clothing, and other housewares that you can live without for a short period of time. You can either store these items in a garage or portable storage building.
2. Organize your cabinets and closets- After you have packed up the dishes and clothing you don’t have to have right now, coordinate your remaining dishes and clothing by color and type. Why you ask? Organized cabinets and closets appear larger. Spacious closets and cabinets really help sell a home.
3. Make your lakefront home look like a show model. You want to make the interior match the surroundings so potential buyers can imagine themselves and their belongings occupying the space in your house. Things like pictures of boats, the lake, boat ores, and other signs related to the lake can be placed where personal photos used to be. Clear off kitchen counters as much as possible ” hide all those counter top appliances you dont use, and place out some decorated canisters or put miscellaneous small items or fruit in some attractive baskets or glass vases.
First impressions are important. Imagine yourself as a potential buyer who is seeing your lake home for the first time. What would you change? Would you buy your home all over again? Is there something you would change?
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to prep your home for sale. What ever you do put into your lake home you’ll likely get back by selling the home quickly and for your asking price.