If you have a smaller home in the Sunset Beach area and are contemplating how to get it ready for showing potential buyers, you may be wondering if you should just pull everything out of the living room altogether instead of staging it.
An empty living room is better than an overly crowded one, but a well-staged room is still going to be better than an empty room. This is because a room that is smartly set up helps buyers to imagine themselves in it much more easily than a completely empty room. This is especially true of a smaller space, as it can help buyers to see that the space can still work instead of only seeing its size when it is empty.
What Items are Helpful to Stage a Small Living Room?
When it comes to smaller living rooms, there are a few staging hacks or tricks you can use in your space to help the room feel useful and even seem larger than it is. Here are some useful pieces of furniture that can help a small living room sell.
A larger loveseat with higher legs
This may sound counterintuitive because of the word larger. The keyword here is loveseat. You don’t want to place a full-size couch in a cramped living room, as it will take up a lot of the floor space. You also don’t want to opt for a loveseat that will instantly point to only small furniture fitting in the space. The hack here is to use an oversized loveseat. It is just a little smaller than a couch, but bigger than a regular loveseat, which is just a dollhouse version of a couch.
Make sure to find one that is sitting up higher, where it is easy to see the floor underneath. This visual effect of seeing the entire floor helps the room feel much bigger than it is. Because the eye is seeing a continuous floor, it feels bigger.
A coffee table with very minimal lines
You can still bring a coffee table into the space and place a few decorative items on the table. This helps the living room to feel like it is useful for sitting down and relaxing. Place a coaster, a book, and a small plant on the table, and you instantly set a scene that the buyer can imagine themselves sitting on the comfy-looking oversize loveseat with their book and getting cozy. Make sure the table again has high legs that you can easily see the floor underneath, and simple clean lines. Something that is not beefy, but more slender, so that you can still see all the space in the room.
A just big enough media console
You don’t have to keep a huge, clunky entertainment system in this smaller space. Bringing in a smaller media console is a great idea to showcase that the living room is still perfectly good for enjoying America’s favorite pastime of watching television. And again, stick with those higher legs so that you can easily see the floor underneath.
A low-profile chair
There are some great low-profile chairs that bring style and a statement to a space without taking up too much space. A chair with a striking statement in a compact design is going to help the place feel designer and intriguing. Keeping with the theme of furniture on high slender legs, so that the floor is easily visible.
A tall and slender floor lamp
If there is not natural light flooding in from every angle of the living room, it is a good idea to strategically place a very tall and slender floor lamp. This will help to bounce light off the walls and make the space feel even bigger. Of course, in addition to this, you’re gonna turn on every light in every room of the house so that that light can help you communicate that there is plenty of space to enjoy this living room, even though it has less square footage.
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