5 Tips to Decorate and Sell your House this Holiday Season

Top 5 Holiday Decorating Tips

Maui, Hawaii

Now more than ever, we all need to uplift our Spirits with some holiday cheer. Decorating our house can be one way to not only bring a sense of joy, peace and hope back into our lives and home, yet also invite in any potential buyers. Here are some of our top decorating tips to sell your home this holiday season…

Tip 1. First Clean and Stage your Home

If your living room is already piled high with clutter, your decorations are only going to add to the sense of overcrowding – so before you decorate, your house needs to be professionally cleaned and staged first.

Home staging is a strategic sales and marketing tool designed to prepare and show a home for sale - helping to improve the flow of your home, to eliminate clutter and to make your home appear bigger and brighter to potential buyers.

One of the best ways to find qualified cleaners and home stagers is to ask your listing agent for recommendations.

Tip 2. Use Minimal, Stylish Decorations

Once you’ve finished cleaning and staging your house ready for sale, you’re ready to start decorating.

When it comes to decorations, less is more and potential buyers want to see a property for what it is, not for what someone else has made it.

Highly decorated houses with numerous multi-colored lights and Christmas decorations can actually deter potential buyers, so it’s really important not to go too overboard.

Instead, using minimal, simple and stylish decorations will make your home feel more spacious, yet also bring that sense of a warm, welcoming festive spirit, that will make your buyers feel comfortable and right at home the minute they walk through your door.

Tip 3. Stay Neutral and Secular

Another important tip is to not be too overtly religious with your decorations, yet rather to keep neutrality throughout your home to appeal to any type of buyer.

Real holly, mistletoe and ivy are lovely. Add candles and stockings for a simply decorated Christmas tree. A gorgeous handmade wreath on the door works wonders, while remaining neutral and secular.

Tip 4. Let there be Light!

A string of warm, white lights in your home and garden can be perfect to shine the light and attract your buyer’s eye on your home’s best architectural features.

Colored lights are beautiful as well, but just keep the look consistent and follow one path rather than mixing them all together.

When it comes to the garden, remain with a consistent methodology by following the branches on the trees with lights or by wrapping only the perimeter. Don't hang them at random or it will look unintentional; try to remain modest and consistent, finishing whatever lighting methodology and scale you start with.

Tip 5. Entice buyers with Delicious Homely Scents

…and lastly, entice buyers and give them a sense of what spending Christmas time will be like with their families in their new home through delicious, homely and festive scents.

Baking some holiday cakes, cookies or brewing a fresh pot of coffee and/or eggnog brings a nice welcoming touch where the aroma permeates throughout your entire home. Vanilla is a sincere natural scent.

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The next time you are near or around Kaanapali, schedule an appointment with our team of professionals. Kimberly, Owner and principal broker of Living Maui Real Estate, will assist with staging, renovations, relocation, market statistics, or transitions of your real estate portfolio.