10 Tips for Decorating Your Home to Sell This Holiday Season

In decorating your home to sell during the holiday season, you must remember to keep your aesthetic tasteful, elegant, and easy. 

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For those of you who have your home on the market this holiday season, we have 10 tips for how you can decorate it so you strike the right balance between celebrating Christmas and appealing to all potential buyers:

1. Maintain curb appeal. We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but that’s exactly what buyers do when they pull up to your home. Don’t turn into the Griswolds! Be modest about your lights and outdoor accessories.
 
2. Don’t overdo the little things. This includes both the exterior and the interior. You don’t want a bajillion little reindeer trinkets sitting around. Too much tableaux can distract from the spatial flow of the home.
 
3. Declutter. We tell all of our home sellers this, no matter what the season. During the holidays, though, you need to kick the process into overdrive before decorating. Clear off any kind of flat surfaces in your home, like the mantle places, countertops, and foyer tables.
 
4. Make your fireplace shine. If you have a fireplace, now’s the time to showcase it. It’s Christmas, after all, and who doesn’t love a good fireplace? As always, keep it elegant and simple.
 
5. Be sensitive to different cultures. Above all else, you’re trying to get your house sold. Not all of your potential buyers may celebrate Christmas, so keep that in mind when you’re decorating.
 

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One man’s taste is another man’s tacky.

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6. Mind your colors. Keep your color schemes tasteful, elegant, and easy. Anything else can be distracting to a buyer.
 
7. Make your decorations fit the style of your home. If taupe is the dominant interior color of your home, for example, your decorations should have the same accent to it.
 
8. Smell your way to the sale. Christmas definitely has a certain smell to it, and that involves cinnamon, pine, and candy. Set out a nice bowl of potpourri to generate this scent.
 
9. Pay attention to scale. If your tree is big enough that you have to rearrange how you walk through the room it’s in, that’s a bad sign.
 
10. Skip the holiday card display. Cards and letters of your extended family can be distracting to buyers. From our perspective, this only counts as more clutter.
 
If you’re looking to make a move in the market in the near future, please don’t hesitate to give us a call so we can get started on finding your next dream home. We look forward to hearing from you!