Fall is officially here, with the changing of the leaves and appearance of Halloween decorations. The chill in the air means incoming holidays and family gatherings. With the potential of hosting holidays, you may want to enhance your decorations. Maybe you’re looking to find a new home to establish holiday traditions and want to show what your house can offer.
One of the unknown keys to impressing any visitors? Home staging and decoration. It’s all about the feeling you give off. Staging your New York home this fall could do just that. With these five key tips, you’ll give the feeling of comfort and autumn in your home.
Tip #1: Less is More
Remember- less is more! You don’t need to fill every space on the wall or cover every piece of furniture in holiday-themed blankets. Too many accessories and decorations around your home can distract from the home itself. You want to stage in order to amplify the wonderful features of your home, not distract from them.
Adding a few tasteful accents per room encourages an inviting feeling, making your house feel like someone’s potential home. You can even take advantage of the New York foliage by displaying some pressed fall flowers and leaves!
Tip #2: Light the Way
The sun is going down earlier and earlier, taking the natural light with it. Make sure people can see your home by offering ample lighting, both indoors and outdoors. Light any outdoor walkways, or turn on outdoor lights for visitors.
Light can also highlight the spacious nature of rooms and brighten up your home. It can make rooms appear larger and more inviting- both large and intimate, all at once. Use more warm lighting throughout your home with lamps and candles, as a nod to the comfort your home can offer.
Tip #3: Offer Warmth- Colors, Accessories, & Seasonal Touches
With the chill in the air, people want to feel warm and at home in your house. By encouraging feelings of warmth and warm colors all over your house, you offer comfort and warmth. This can be done by warming up rooms with colder wall tones. By including pops of rich, warm reds and oranges, you can bring warmth to the room.
You can also do this by including blankets or throw pillows in warm, autumn colors. Even consider encouraging nostalgia with a pumpkin or apple crisp scented candle. You’ll see smiles all around when people recall happy memories of apple picking or baking pumpkin pies. Show visitors that your house can be their home.
Tip #4: Hibernate Comfortably and Luxuriously- for Cheap!
We all tend to want a place to hibernate during the incoming winter. Make your home that place! Include more throw pillows and blankets in autumnal tones, offering opportunities for warmth. However, to further encourage feelings of comfort, you want to shift your approach from offering warmth. This can be done by making sure the colors flow and complement each other while offering a variety of patterns, shapes, rhythms, and repetition. Choose a few key autumnal colors, and find those colors in various accessories and decorations to create that symmetry.
By following this tip, you create interior harmony, telling a unified story with your decorations, wall accents, throw pillows, and more. Humans naturally love harmony, feeling comforted by the balanced appearance of autumnal colors and decorations. Increase the feeling of comfort in your home by creating a symmetrical sense of harmony with color and patterns.
Tip #5: Don’t Forget Curb Appeal
Don’t forget outside! Too many people focus on only the inside, ignoring the first thing people see when they arrive- the outside. You want to maintain the curb appeal you had in the summer or spring. You can do this by:
- Raking leaves at least once a week
- Pull weeds that are starting to appear
- Add a layer of mulch or fertilizer to encourage grass growth or patch brown spots
- Prune trees or plants to protect them
- Add some seasonal flowers or plants- like a pumpkin on the porch
- Clean out gutters and downspouts to keep the leaves from cluttering up the house’s exterior
With these tips, you’re bound to impress your friends and family, or sell your home this fall. Want more tips on selling your home? Contact me, one of the best real estate agents in the Lake George area. We’ll stage your home perfectly for buyers. Contact me now to get started!