If you’re like many people, you know that selling your home is part art, and part timing. Some people even argue that it’s part luck. However, regardless of what goes into selling a home, here are three home staging hacks you can’t afford to list your home without.

3 Home Staging Hacks You Can’t Afford to List Your Home Without

Check out these three amazing home staging hacks:

  1. Use live plants
  2. Make every cosmetic improvement you can think of
  3. Give your guests a take-away

Scroll down for a closer look at each.

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Home Staging Hack #1: Use Live Plants

When prospective buyers come to see your home, they want to see a livable space that feels vibrant and alive, and one of the best ways to meet that expectation is to use live plants. You don’t need plants in every room – in fact, you don’t even need a lot of plants. However, what you do need are plants that are people friendly (meaning they won’t cause allergic reactions) and that are easy to care for. Some of the best plants to use in home staging are mother-in-law’s tongue, jade plant and peace lily.

Be strategic in placing your plants. Don’t place a tiny plant in a big, wide-open space; Also, don’t place a huge plant in a tight spot. Make sure the size of the plant matches the size of the space it occupies so buyers can see it as a visually appealing part of your decor, rather than something that makes your space look unbalanced (or worse, too small).

Related: 5 signs it may be time to sell your home

Home Staging Hack #2: Make Every Cosmetic Improvement You Can Think Of

If you know your home needs some cosmetic improvements, make them before you list your home for sale. That goes for fixing every dent, ding and scuff on the walls, as well as replacing dated light fixtures and faucets.

This advice also goes for the outdoors. If your landscaping doesn’t look very impressive, now is the time to improve it. you don’t have to hire a professional landscaping company, but you do need to cut the grass, trim the trees and replace soggy mulch. It also doesn’t hurt to power wash your driveway and sidewalk, check the light bulb on your front porch, and invest in new house numbers or a new mailbox if necessary. Curb appeal is exceptionally important – buyers will begin forming an impression of your home before they even step through the front door.

Related: How to stage your deck to sell your home

Home Staging Hack #3: Give Your Guests a Take-Away

Consider adding a bowl of prepackaged snacks or cooler full of drinks for your guests to take with them when they leave is showing. If you do so, it may be in your best interest to attach a small tag with your real estate agent’s business card and your address. That way, buyers have yet another way to remember your home and how they felt about it after they leave.

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