One of the trickiest aspects of selling your house is staging it. When it’s being sold, a home needs to be set up to appeal to the widest buying audience possible, which may not be how you live in it. Changing the aesthetic from a home personalized to you to a house that anyone would want to be in can be intimidating, even if you’re ready to move.
Dan Mazzarini, the creative director at BHDM Design and an expert in both interior design and home staging, was asked about the most common mistakes people make when staging their homes. One of his first words of advice: don’t leave anything with words on it out.
Although you want your space to feel welcoming for potential buyers, you don’t want it to feel too much like your home.
“Staging to sell is about cleaning up. It’s about a simplification, and it’s about putting away the personal,” Mazzarini says. “While you want people to understand how they would live in a home, you don’t want them to necessarily focus on you and your personal style in the home.”
“You’re trying to create a pretty general canvas to attract as many people as possible because you want that top dollar,” he added.
