When you are a home owner, it can be immensely fun to think of
Halloween ideas to decorate your home. After all, no other holiday
allows such macabre decorations to be so commonplace, and of course, it
is all in good fun. However, Halloween decorations can do more than just
scare unsuspecting children. It can also scare away buyers. Here are
home selling tips that are in line with your inner spooky spirit.
Just Don't.
If
you feel ambivalent about the holiday and all of the decorating that
comes with it then it is not time to start while you are trying to sell
your home. People that are seeing your home for the first time are
forming their first impressions so you need to be careful not to get
carried away with the decorations. Instead of decorations consider some
contemporary curtains that will allow the autumn light to shine through.
But it's Halloween!
So
you definitely want to decorate for the season. But you also definitely
want to sell your home. You will be walking a fine line, but it is
absolutely doable. In fact, a good seasonal scheme will have buyers
easily imagining the fun they will have decorating when they own your
property.
Show off your home, not your decorations.
As fun
and complex as your Halloween decorations can be, prospective home
buyers want to look at your house, not how spooky your lawn looks. Over
the top decorations will detract the showcasing of your home.
While
you are staging the house you want to try and depersonalize things as
much as possible because you don't want your decorations to distract the
home buyer, or worse yet, detract from the home itself. This can range
from anything from religious items to personal mementos, but anything
else that can stop a home buyer from imagining themselves and their
family in the home.
Halloween decorations are also covered by this same
rule. If the buyer can't get a good idea of the curb appeal because of
the Halloween decorations that litter the front yard then you might lose
that potential sale. Don't try to remake your favorite horror movie
scene. And please do not dress up in a costume while you are doing the
showing.
No Gore Or Gross Things
You want your home to
project positive traits like comfort. You want your home to be working
right and to feel like a home. Shockingly you don't accomplish either of
these things by putting zombies in the front of the house. You don't
want your potential buyers to cringe when they drive up to your house.
Leave the headless man and bloody bodies for another year after you have
moved. Even if your home is in perfect shape you don't ever want people
to relate your house to anything decaying or otherwise nasty.
Decorate tastefully.
Remember,
your decorations serve to enhance your home. You can do this by adding
small touches to your home that are more innocently fun, than macabre.
For example, carve a pair of jack o' lanterns for the front steps or an
old-fashioned sheet ghost from your porch. Bake Halloween sugar cookies
to serve during showings or set out a bowl of chocolates next to a
welcome card in the foyer.
In conclusion, as the holiday seasons
draw close remember that the house is the biggest thing in the selling
process and not your holiday cheer or your Halloween decorating skill.
With all of that being said you can still sell your house quickly while
maintaining a holiday spirit in the home. When done right Halloween
decorations can make for a unique thing that will set your home apart
from the others.
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