When it’s time to sell your mid-century modern home, many factors come into play. Along with the usual ones such as its price and location, more and more people are realizing that staging a home may ultimately be the deciding factor for many buyers. While staging is becoming popular in all types of homes, mid-century modern homes are seeing a tremendous surge in staging. If you’ve got mid-century modern decor in your home and are in need of some new and exciting ideas to stage your home for a quick sale, here are four essential musts you’ll need to incorporate into your plans to get the results you’re seeking.
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Classic Shapes and Simplicity
When a home is filled with mid-century modern furniture, your staging should emphasize the numerous classic shapes and simplicity that are so common in these homes. However, it’s important to make sure your home does not look like it is still stuck in a bygone era. Therefore, avoid items or furniture that are looked upon as too colorful, too small, or too tacky. Instead, use mid-century modern furniture that has simple legs or has a boxy shape. If needed, purchasing additional pieces of furniture can help you stage your home and create the perfect look that potential buyers will love. Whether it’s a mid-century modern sofa that has a sculptural appearance or other mid-century modern decor that explores primal and geometric forms, you’re sure to find a winning combination for your home.
The Stylish Kitchen
Since so many people spend so much of their time in the kitchen, staging this part of your home can be extremely important when it comes to ensuring you’ll sell your home as quickly as possible. To capture that mid-century modern look that will leave everyone in awe of your home, use a variety of design interpretations. For many kitchens of this period, veneer cabinetry offers stylish storage while providing crisp, clean lines to the room. Along with this, gorgeous clear lights allow you to light up the room in ways that will emphasize its style and elegance. For best results, choose glass pendant lighting that will immediately let potential buyers visualize themselves in the home. That way they will visualize themselves with amazing line of kitchen accessories in that environment.
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The Living Room
When potential buyers come into your home, the living room is probably the first room into which they will step. Because of this, it can be argued that this room should be given the most attention when it comes to staging. If you are of this school of thought, plan on giving your living room a makeover. White walls will give the room a clean, open look, while light hardwood floors give it an elegant and classy look. Along with these aspects of the room, your mid-century modern sofa should be a sectional sofa of neutral color and simple style. Since many mid-century modern designs are considered some of the most popular in history, you’ll have no trouble finding plenty of furniture to create the perfect look. Popular selections include a Bailly lounge chair and ottoman in burnt orange, a Womb lounge chair in red textile, and a classic Ball Chair with orange upholstery and a white fiberglass finish. And once you’ve got the furniture in place, add a timeless accent to the room by hanging some mid-century modern art on your walls. To stimulate interesting discussions, try wall art made of pebble gold, silver squares, or rust squares, or choose large prints of icons from the period such as Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor. By doing so, your guests will enter your home and feel as if they stepped back in time, to a day when elegance, class, and style were the norm.
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Shaken, Not Stirred
To ensure your mid-century modern decor contains all the looks and style of that period, more and more people have included classy barware as part of the staging process. Glass decanters, cocktail glasses, and classic ice buckets are often part of the decor, leading many to wonder if Sean Connery’s James Bond will be found nearby asking for a martini that’s shaken, not stirred. And along with these items, a bar cart will cap off your staging process. Seen as an elegant solution to serving guests, most carts from this period combine marble and iron in ways that showcase their beauty. While a Livingston or Rovira bar cart may be a popular choice for many households, others may instead look to a Wade or Connaught bar cart. With their round shapes and use of marble, iron, brass, and other materials, there’s no doubt these carts will add life to any party. So if you want potential buyers to stroll into your home and immediately visualize the class that was and is mid-century modern, these accessories will undoubtedly accomplish this and much more.
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