Staging is a crucial step to put the finishing touches on your home before you start showing it to potential buyers, and it can be helpful for more than just creating an attractive look. The right staging techniques can also help make your home appear more spacious, which is a major selling point that can help your listing stand out over other Albany and Corvallis homes on the market. Our real estate agents have more details on staging tips to help your home look more spacious.

• Make Sure to Clean and Declutter
  Many tips to stage your home in order to make it look more spacious, unsurprisingly, require creating more open space. Which can be difficult to do if the home is still filled with the usual clutter that builds up over years of living. So if you didn't declutter in a major way while cleaning your home, now is the time to get it done. Items that you don't need can be donated, sold at a yard sale, or disposed of as needed. If you have items you want to keep but want to remove before you start showing the home, renting a storage unit can be a good temporary solution until you move.

• Less Is More With Furniture
  Continuing with the theme of creating more space, staging often involves adding to or tweaking the furniture in a home. If you're trying to make a smaller space appear more spacious, then less is usually more in terms of furniture. This doesn't mean bare walls and empty floors. Even removing a few strategically chosen items from a room can create the appearance of much more space.

• Choose Appropriately Sized Furniture
  It's not just about the amount of furniture but also the size of each piece of furniture that you have in a room. This is especially true for bulkier items like sofas, beds, and dressers, which can easily eat up a lot of space in smaller rooms. Going with sleeker, smaller options for those pieces of furniture is a staging technique that can make a big difference.

• Consider Spacing Around Furniture
  When furniture is squeezed tight up against walls, it can make a room feel more cramped and crowded. Moving furniture away from walls creates walking paths while making the room feel larger and more open. Bed placement is particularly important – try to place it on the wall farthest from the door, with ample room to walk on each side of the bed.

• Make Sure Rooms Are Well Lit
  A dim room with dark corners and lots of shadows will naturally feel like a smaller space than a well-lit room where everything is visible. Ideally, this can be accomplished through a mix of natural light through windows and artificial lighting in the home. Reducing the size of curtains or window treatments is an easy way to let in more light. Bulkier window treatments can make rooms feel more cramped, so reducing their size has multiple staging benefits.

• Keep Closets and Cabinets Clean and Organized
  It's not just rooms that can be made to look more spacious. Keeping your storage spaces clean, organized, and as free from clutter as possible is a great way to make those spaces more appealing to buyers.

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