How to stage your home: choosing style, colors and decor to attract buyers.
Styles for staging a home before sale
If you have decided to sell your house, If you have decided to sell your house, you will undoubtedly want to get as much as possible for it, even though these are difficult, crisis times when people are less inclined to buy property. However, there are always buyers, even during a crisis — you just need to draw their attention to your offer. This can be achieved through landscape design, which will enhance the attractiveness of the house and lot and help you obtain a higher price. In a way, landscape planning can be considered a magic wand, because a beautiful plot is an integral part of a home whose owners want to inspire admiration in guests and passersby.
The simplest way to make the house and plot more attractive is to turn to professionals. However, this is not always possible, since that option involves considerable expense, which may be recouped later, but what if there is no initial capital? You can manage on your own, using your knowledge and ideas. Major changes require a lot of time. Suppose the house needs to be sold as quickly as possible. Will there be time to buy planting material at a nursery, plant it and care for it? Probably not. Therefore it is best to create a design based on existing elements, executing it in one of the styles prescribed by garden landscape design. There are a great many styles, and elements can be borrowed from almost any of them. We will give examples of only a few.
The country style is suitable if the property already has fruit trees, flowering shrubs, lawns and flowerbeds. This is a typical decoration for a country house with all the charms of such a life: a delightful fruit garden with a solitary bench in a secluded corner, a sunny atmosphere of joy and celebration reigning over the plot.
A small pond with a weeping willow on its bank, lawns and a hedgerow will help turn the plot into a true English garden. This style welcomes weeping and pyramidal trees, irregularly shaped lawns surrounded by hedges, and meadow grasses. Despite the absence of flowerbeds, such a composition with a pond and a weeping willow at its center looks attractive and neat.
An Italian garden can be created on a plot with existing evergreen shrubs and trees, a small courtyard and climbing grapevines.
Why is it so important to create an attractive landscape design on the property and how will it affect the sale of the house? First of all, because the buyer sees the plot first, and only then the house itself. An unattractive plot, whose rolled lawn is unkempt, can spoil the impression of the house and scare off a buyer. Conversely, original garden sculptures and well-kept lawns can literally transform the area and enhance the house's appeal, inside which the buyer may well renovate everything, since opinions about the ideal interior vary greatly. A well-maintained property requires fewer changes.
When designing the area there are no limits to imagination. If you suddenly lack ideas, you can find them in specialized literature or perhaps ask a specialist for advice, which will still be cheaper if you implement those ideas yourself. And the thought that all your efforts will help increase the home's value — while still attracting many potential buyers — will fuel your desire to create a beautiful design. By skillfully combining elements from different styles, you may be able to create your own unique design with no equal anywhere in the world.
