When selling your home, staging it for viewing the best ways you can make a lasting impression to your potential buyers.
Leaving your home as-is isn't the best way to attract buyers. It would be best if you took the time to prepare your home for the viewing so buyers can see it under the best light (literally and figuratively).
From your bedrooms to your front yard, every part of your home will need a makeover, or, at least, a bit of organizing and tidying up. One part of your home that you might be neglecting during this entire process may be your laundry room.
Although the laundry room isn't the most glamorous part of a home, it's still a part of it. Plus, your buyers are going to look at it, whether you like it or not. Therefore, you should make sure that you took the time to organize and stage your laundry room.
If you have no clue how to do that, then here are seven simple ways to guide you on how to organize and stage your laundry room for a home viewing.
Clean and Declutter
When preparing your home to sell it off to potential buyers, no matter what part of your home it may be, you need to remember to clean and declutter. Since you're cleaning your home to sell it, you might also take the time to do a deep clean of your house instead of the usual. Of course, the same step applies to your laundry room.
Your laundry room might have a lot of clutter in it due to poor organization. It might also have dust and dirt all over the place if it's a part of your home that you don't clean that often. Therefore, you should make sure that you take the time to clean and organize the laundry items.
If there are any items you're temporarily storing in the laundry room due to a lack of space, get rid of them. You can use organizational storage items to level up your laundry room's look.
Consolidate Laundry Products
If you are displaying too many different laundry products in your laundry room, it can make things feel messy, even if you organize them well. Therefore, when you're staging your laundry room, try and stick to a single type or brand of cleaning detergent. It should be a brand that works the best for all of your fabrics and stick to that.
Some people who want to go that extra mile are repackaging laundry products in separate and prettier containers. This extra step will undoubtedly make displaying your laundry products look more attractive to buyers. However, make sure that you label these containers, so you don't mix things up.
Consider Space Saving Appliances
It's understandable when washers and dryers occupy a large amount of space in your laundry room. However, this means that it's a lot harder to fit anything else in there. You might have to migrate your laundry products someplace away from your laundry room. Putting your laundry products somewhere else can be very inconvenient.
You can better your laundry room's situation by investing in smaller but efficient appliances instead. They still do the job, but they leave enough space to place your laundry products in the room.
That way, you won't have to move back-and-forth when you need to do your laundry. Plus, it helps you save space everywhere else in your home.
Make Your Space Visually Appealing
When you think of the laundry room, the image that comes to your mind likely isn't the most exciting thing out there. Visualizing laundry rooms doesn't give us the immediate Pinterest-home imagery in comparison to other places in the home.
Although that is the case, it doesn't mean that you can't make your laundry room more visually appealing. To do that, you can apply simple interior design rules to your laundry room.
One effective way to make your laundry room more appealing would be by sticking to a visual theme. For example, you can stick to a color scheme that applies throughout the laundry room. Adding a bit of decor or placing your laundry products in containers that match the theme will make it more appealing.
Making your laundry room more appealing will make it a relaxing place to stay. After all, doing the laundry can often be anything but exciting.
Put Clothes Away
When you're showing your home to buyers, the worst thing you can do when it comes to the laundry room would be to show dirty clothes. That's an awful idea for anyone. Nobody wants to see a stranger's literal and figurative dirty laundry out in the open like that, especially when you're trying to sell them something.
Therefore, you should ensure that you put your clothes away, including clean ones, somewhere far away. That way, buyers aren't reminded of the previous owners of the house, which can distract them from picturing themselves as the owners of the house.
Create a Place for Everything
To keep your laundry room organized, make sure that everything you'll ever need relating to the laundry room is there and has a dedicated place there. For example, you should have dedicated spaces for hangers that you're not using. Your laundry room needs a spot for your laundry products, and so on.
Having a place for everything makes it a lot easier for you (and other people in the home) to know where everything should be.
Create a Line and Folding Space
Not everyone is a fan of drying their clothes in a dryer. Therefore, you should create a drying rack where people who want to air dry their clothes can put them. A retractable clothesline is a nifty idea that gives you that drying rack while also being easy to put away when not in use.
Aside from an air-drying space, it would help if you also had a laundry room folding area. That way, all you need to do when you step out of the laundry room is put the clothes away afterward.
Conclusion
The laundry room is a crucial part of your home, but it doesn't get as much tender, loving care that it deserves. With this article's help, you can find a way to organize and stage your laundry room to appeal to you and potential buyers all-around.
Try them out and see just how big of an improvement your laundry room is going to make only by spending a bit of time and effort on its development.
Author Bio: Andrew is an NY-based writer who covers DIY home projects, cleaning, and organization. When not writing, he spends his time with his two rescue dogs, Jet and Rocket.
