NH Home Staging - Decorating For Halloween While Your Home Is For Sale
This time of year the question always comes up...
Can I decorate for Halloween while my house is on the market?
The best advice I have, as a New Hampshire Home Stager, is to keep your decorating simple. Decorate for the season, not specifically for the holiday.
Decorate for fall instead of Halloween
A few strategically placed pumpkins and gourds throughout the home, a basket of apples, tree branches arranged in an urn....you can celebrate the season without distracting potential buyers.
The front door is a great place to decorate for the holidays.
As potential buyers approach your door they are already forming an impression. That small fraction of time when the agent is getting the door unlocked is when buyers are taking a good close look at the exterior of your house.
A "staged" entryway can create emotional appeal before potential buyers even enter your house.
For the real Halloween enthusiasts.....
Yes, it's ok to spook it up a notch for trick or treat night. One day of Halloween decor at your front door is not going to jeopardize the sale of your house.
Halloween Decorating Ideas:
Attach rubber mice to tree branches and display on railing and in urns.
Witches Curtain: Cut large trash bags down sides and open up into one big piece. Cut into jaggered strips.
Mummy hand:
Place rolled up aluminum foil in fingers of a vinyl glove. (foil allows you to bend fingers to shape)
Stuff the rest of the hand with a couple of plastic bags.
Place glove over bottom of water bottle. Attach with elastic.
Dip paper towel in tea or coffee, allow to dry, rip into strips. Dip strips into Elmer's Glue and water mixture and wrap around hand and bottle.
Place hand in planter using stick stuck in open end of bottle.
It's very important that you return your entryway to staged for sale condition the day after the holiday!
NH Home Staging - Decorating For Halloween While Your Home Is For Sale
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