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Holiday Home Staging Tips to Sell Your Home Faster

Selling your home during the holiday season can feel daunting. Still, with the right holiday home staging tips, you can make your property stand out and appeal to buyers looking for a new home to call their own. In the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, where a home's presentation matters, home staging can help your listing sell faster and at a better price. Keep Holiday Décor Simple and Inviting While holiday décor can bring warmth and charm to a home, keeping your property's presentation simple and neutral when staging for a sale remains essential. Regardless of the time of year, potential buyers need to be able to envision themselves in the space. Over-personalized spaces or excessive decorations can be distracting and overwhelming for home buyers. Keep in mind that your holiday decor should complement the style of your home and not clash with it. We recommend choosing a cohesive color scheme with neutrals like white, silver, or gold and adding one pop of color that ties in with your home's existing decor style. This approach will enhance your home and impress buyers. If you want to decorate your Virginia home for the holidays and still make it appealing to buyers, we recommend keeping the decor simple. Stick to classic, understated items like greenery, candles, and neutral-colored wreaths. Think "less is more" and avoid religious-specific decorations so the home [...]

Creating a Productive Work from Home Space

Working from home can be challenging, especially if you don’t have the right set up. Here are a few things to consider when setting up or revamping your work from home space! Location, Location, Location!!! Ideally, using a spare room or corner of a room is the most productive option for workspace location. Keeping all your work items and everything set up, allows you to jump in and just get started. However, when this is not possible, and if you must turn kitchen or dining tables into workspaces, consider a mobile office, and use portable bins and storage cabinets on wheels. Consider multi-use furniture, like cabinets or buffets to use as work organizers. Find ways to organize your work tools, that you can set up and store in five minutes. Keep your productivity in mind. Note: Think outside the box, consider garages, sheds and closets that can be remade into a home office. When choosing your location, consider distractions. What distractions are out of your control? For example, when your neighbors are entertaining guests, have children at play, or when they choose to cut their grass? What can you do to make your space specific distraction free? Noise cancellation headsets? Can you set up hours of operation that makes your space off limits to others during times? Can you set your schedule to match others sharing the space? [...]