Consciously staging your home to appeal to the widest audience makes financial sense. However, our emotional side can overpower our sense of logic when selling the family home. We urge you to persevere and consider ditching the dated family heirlooms, or at least packing them away and focusing on our list of budget design trends that will help sell your home in 2022.
Neutral Paint
You might love bold pops of colour or appealing wallpaper, but estate agents say this can be off-putting for potential buyers. Not only might the colour not mesh with their sense of style or soft furnishings, but it also makes it more difficult for buyers to picture themselves living in your space.
You don’t need to spend too much on renovating your home if you use this selling a home checklist. However, our first suggestion is to repaint your house in neutral colours. The aim is to create a cohesive look throughout your house that will undoubtedly help sell your home in 2022.
Mirrors
You can use mirrors to make a room look larger, longer or draw attention away from less desirable locations. Mirrors can bounce sunbeams from a window into a room with poor natural light, or be used as a frame for a lovely scene such as a cluster of plants and flowers.
We recommend scouring charity shops, flea markets, and garage sales for distinctive mirrors or picture frames that can be updated for only a few extra dollars. The best part is that you can take them with you when you move.
Metallic Lighting
In 2022, metallic lighting will be a popular interior design trend. Get rid of any old fixtures that age your home and update the space with large, contemporary light fixtures in silver, bronze, or shades of gold. Keep within budget by creating dramatic appeal with stylish but straightforward fixtures from IKEA or other big box stores.
Indoor Plants
We are still spending more time indoors than we ever previously imagined. As a result, one of the biggest interior design trends for 2022 will be the addition of even more houseplants.
Whether you prefer the limited emotional investment of a succulent garden or the enormous leaves of philodendrons reminding you of the tropics, houseplants are here in a big way. Consider purchasing pots that match your interiors first and then choosing amongst these plants that are relatively low maintenance:
- Snake plant
- Spider plant
- Bamboo
- Chinese evergreen
- Jade plant
- Palms
- Aloe
- Fiddle leaf fig tree
- Wax plant
- Sweetheart plant
Multifunctional Spaces
Are you still working on your laptop from the dining room table? Is your guest room overflowing with boxes and also used for ironing and storage? It’s time to fine tune these multifunctional spaces in your home and ensure potential buyers can look beyond any flaws. Instead, you want them to focus on the home office nook or the versatility of a room.
If you want to get top price for your house once you put it on the market, it is likely worth investing your time and energy into updating the interiors to appeal to the masses. Many of the design trends on our list can be swiftly packed to take with you, so you can continue to relish them in your next abode.
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Your colour palette is so pretty! And with the colour blocking, you’ve made it a practical, lovely and fun space for a family home – what all hallways should be but rarely are! The white floors look beautiful, looking forward to reading your post about it!