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7 Tips for Staging Your Bathroom

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Real Estate Agent with Steinborn & Associates Real Estate

Staging Your Bathroom - Homes for sale in Las Cruces

Does your bathroom feel dull? Cleaning and updating your bathroom will make all the difference.

The clean part is obvious, but giving your bathroom a modern look is also very important. After all, the last thing home buyers want to see when viewing your home is that the bathrooms need updating.

So your plan for bathroom design and staging is to clean everything and update items as needed. Let's turn this into a motto. Your motto is "clean, bright and modern." Keep this in mind when developing your bathroom design ideas and when staging the space for potential buyers. Repeat after me ... clean, bright and modern!

Of course, if you add "luxurious" onto that motto, you'll score extra points with home buyers. Clean, bright and modern are a must. Luxurious will help even more. Those are the keys to staging a bathroom for a quick home sale.

Here are some specific tips for carrying your home-staging efforts into the bathrooms of your house.

1. Before listing the home and welcoming buyers inside, clean those bathrooms until they appear brand new. Signs of usage, such as toothpaste stains and soap scum, will turn buyers off.

2. If the fixtures in your bathroom are outdated (spigots, handles, mirrors, etc.), you should replace them with sleek and modern fixtures. This single bathroom design idea will do wonders for helping you sell the home.

3. Stay away from brass fixtures - they bring the 1980's to mind. There is only a small percentage of buyers who like brass fixtures. To see what the prevailing style is, tour a model home or read through an interior design magazine / website.

4. Adorn the towel rack with high-quality plush towels in subtle colors. Coordinate the towels with the overall color scheme (match them to the rug, accent colors, etc.).

5. Glass shower door a little gross? Remove it and take it outside for cleaning. Use a solution of one part muriatic acid to 10 parts water (wear goggles when mixing). Scrub it with steel wool, rinse it clean, and replace the door.

6. If you have the budget and you really want to increase your home's appeal, consider installing a pedestal sink. They are very popular with buyers right now, and they make the bathroom seem larger by freeing up space.

7. Fresh flower arrangements do a lot for a bathroom, both in appearance and aroma.

Remember, when potential buyers tour your home their agents will probably be whispering "kitchens and baths" in their ears. So when staging your home to sell put some extra effort into those bathrooms. Your motto is clean, bright and luxurious.

When you are ready to take it to the next level, contact us and we'll be happy to help. Visit our comprehensive one-stop website for all the Las Cruces Real Estate Information you are looking for. For information about The Evelyn Bruder Dream Team, what we do and how we can provide all of your real estate needs, visit our real estate services page.

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Sharon Parisi
United Real Estate Dallas - Dallas, TX
Dallas Homes

I like the idea of cleaning a bathroom until it looks brand new!  That is what buyers want to see.

Sep 25, 2014 04:06 PM