Staging Your Home Starts in the Kitchen
Selling your home is about presentability: from the front yard to the laundry room, your home’s features must be presented in a way that shows off the best parts of your home. This is why staging is such an important part of the selling process.
Susan Layden, owner of Susan’s Organizing Solutions recently wrote about the importance of kitchen organizing and the role it plays in staging your home for selling.
We can attest to this idea: the kitchen is the heart of the home, and the more well staged & organized your kitchen is during the showing process, the better your home shows overall.
Why?
Try putting your self in the roll of a potential buyer!
If you’re getting ready to sell your home, you no doubt know (or will know soon enough) the value of presentation for potential buyers. Staging is a large part of that presentation to visitors to your home.
The best place to start the staging process is in the kitchen. Every home has one, and buyers are frequently checking against their own experiences (whether the size of the kitchen in the current home they live in, the size of their families & potential plans for family growth) to figure out whether the kitchen is spacious enough to accommodate their current & future needs.
Proper staging of kitchen can have a great effect on fortifying these ideas of spaciousness in buyer’s minds. According to Lush Home:
“Potential buyers want to feel that they will move up to your home and get a lot of kitchen storage….Decluttering and kitchen organization during home staging help design simple storage solutions and create more functional and attractive to potential buyers home.”
The staging process starts with organizing your kitchen first! Lush home put together some fantastic suggestions on organizing for staging purposes:
1. The primary function is preparing food, and the space looks much better without all those things that do not belong to the cooking process. Remove everything that has nothing to do with food from your kitchen cupboard storage shelves, open shelves surfaces and kitchen pantry storage shelves.
2. Make your kitchen storage practical and comfortable, installing sliding storage shelves and functional drawer organizers to prepare kitchen cabinets for home sale.
3. Declutter and organize kitchen pantry storage shelves and cabinets, using attractive storage containers.
4. Place items inside each other to create some empty space on the storage shelves, preparing the kitchen pantry and kitchen cabinets for home sale.
Kitchen staging & presentability are the keys to getting buyers excited about your home!
If you’re looking for great organizing tips or need assistance with pre or post-home relocation organization, we recommend SOS for their fantastic service & work. You can contact them at 813.503.0967 or through their handy online form!
