Stage Your Home For The Holidays
First Up: Halloween!
Fall is upon us, and there’s no easier time to stage your home for the holidays! If you are selling your New Braunfels home during this season, you’ll want it to look welcoming and appealing, as well as current. Make the decision when staging your home to opt for a harvest theme, rather than the witches and goblins. Pumpkins are plentiful and affordable, and they really pack a punch when clustered outdoors on a lawn or porch. Mini-pumpkins are perfect for indoor decor, and dried corncobs and gourds look great in the kitchen. Let’s take a look at how to effectively stage your home for the holidays!
Exterior
When you’re starting to stage your home for the holidays, be sure to consider the weather first. Here in New Braunfels, October is often warm, and carved pumpkins rot immediately. Instead, opt for weather-friendly whole pumpkins in a variety of sizes. Place them on your porch steps to warmly guide the potential buyers to your front door. Welcome them at the front door with a cluster of pumpkins on a decorative planter. Spray-painting the pumpkins with gilded or glitter paint adds an elegant touch.
You’ll also want a harvest wreath on your door. Look for a beautiful handcrafted wreath by local craftsmen at Gruene Market Days or New Braunfels Farm-to-Market, pick-up a ready-made wreath at a local craft or hobby store, or make one yourself from a simple wreath form, burlap, and lots of ribbon in the rich, warm colors of the season. Tuck some cinnamon sticks in your wreath for a scented surprise when buyers approach the door.
Interior
Inside, staging your home for the holidays couldn’t be easier. Your entryway is the first glimpse your potential buyers get of your New Braunfels home for sale, so make it memorable! Whether you opt for a dried flower arrangement on a console table or a gilded pumpkin with a nearby bowl of gilded acorns, your potential buyers’ eyes will be drawn to it. If you have a staircase immediately in front of the door, be sure to hang a small wreath from a ribbon from the finial to soften the appearance of the stairs.
In your family room, pillows in the rich colors of fall really warm up your sofa, and a bowl of sweet Texas pecans on your kitchen table (along with a nutcracker tied with a simple ribbon) is so inviting!
