12 Feng Shui Tips on Staging Bathrooms that SELL

Bathrooms and Kitchens are two of the most expensive rooms in a home to renovate, but two of the easiest to stage for selling a home. The trick is in minimizing the accessories and maximizing the rooms impact. Today’s busy lifestyle has many of us making appointments for spa treatments that cost anywhere from $60-$200 a visit. Show buyers that investing in your home will save them cash in their pocket after all what people are really after is a quiet peaceful place to unwind and sooth their tense muscles.

Bathrooms are generally stark, cold and lack luster. I’m going to show you how to Feng Shui enhance your bathroom into a spa retreat, you won’t need a jet tub to instill a lasting impression. Buyers will look under the cabinets and behind the shower curtain, so make sure the tub is clean, that grout and caulking is pristine. If the tub is stained and grimy have it reglazed, the cost is generally less expensive than replacing or installing a new tub and surround.

12 Groovy Tips to Creating a Dreamy Spa Bathroom

Throw out all expired toiletries and edit from sight. Keep currently used items organized in vanity.
Remove any bulky and sharp edged cabinets and shelving from over the toilet.
If the walls need painting choose a colour in flesh tones.
Hang a shower curtain in a complimentary solid colour.
Neatly hang plush coordinating bath and hand towels to help bring warmth to the space as tile and porcelain are cool, hard surfaces.
Introduce silk Orchids or silk plants with soft round leafs on the counter top.
Hang stretched canvas artwork, this minimizes the hard angles of wood picture frames.
Keep mirror clean and sparkling. I have seen many broken mirrors that have been hung far too low in MLS listings. This is less-than-excellent Feng Shui in so many ways. Many of us are self-conscious about how we perceive ourselves naked. Instill a positive affirmation by providing a beautiful self-image.
Keep toilet clean and lid DOWN. This is a common neglected detail especially in MLS photos. The last thing buyers want to see is the inside of your toilet bowl. If you can’t remember to put the lid down, purchase a new “Quiet-Close” one from Home Depot http://reviews.homedepot.ca/1998/947393/reviews.htm, or the “Easy Close” from Canadian Tire. The $40.00 is well worth the investment.
Store the bathmat folded neatly in the vanity.
If the bathroom is the only place to keep the dirty laundry hamper make sure it is empty and in excellent shape. Ideally it would be best that during the selling of the home that all the dirty laundry be kept in the laundry room in organized closed laundry hampers. Keep all unmentionables out of sight.
Place a couple of decorative bathroom canisters on the vanity top to hold soaps, bath salts, q-tips or cotton swabs.

Luxury is the image you are portraying. Buyers will imagine themselves relaxing in bubbles and find themselves daydreaming of coming home. You’ve just touch the ♥. You fill the need. You sign the deed of sale.

Till next time when we discuss how to “Show Spacial Intentions with Children and Guest Rooms”