House Decorating

Decorating your house isn't always as easy as it sounds. After all, there is a reason why interior decorators and interior designers exist! When you first visit a house with your realtor that you may potentially buy, it is important to remember that many sellers will hire someone ahead of time to help them “stage” the house or get it ready for other potential buyers to view it. The whole point of staging a house is to help the potential buyer visualize themselves living there. The thought behind this is that if someone visualizes themselves living in a particular house, they will naturally want to buy the house to carry out this vision. However, many buyers who wind up buying a house based on this notion find out later that they are sorely mistaken.

You should never purchase a house based on how the person before you had it decorated. Ideally, the house should be empty of all items because all that these items inside of a house do is influence you in one direction or the other. Rather, you need to walk into a house and sort of forget that another person's furniture is there. Instead, visualize the space as you would decorate it and imagine yourself living in it from that point of view. There are those who are selling their house who are, in some cases, willing to sell you some or all of the furnishings that they had in the house. Just keep in mind that you'll be spending more money, obviously.