Help! How should we style a bedroom for a house sale?
We are selling our apartment and our 3rd bedroom was set up as a study but the agent thinks we should market it as a 3rd bedroom instead with a bed. We got a spare king single bed off my mum but I don’t know what else to add to make it look good and at the same time not have to spend a lot of money on stuff we may not want to keep. Here is a pic of the room at the moment. Obviously we will get rid of the cat scratch
ing post etc but basically all we have is the bed and a cupboard we use as a linen cupboard but i guess it can look like a wardrobe for people inspecting.
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Comments (9)Hi Calypso. We would need a lot more information to be really useful, but to start with I suggest you look at as many rooms as you can to see what you like. I've put, for example, two very different ways of using it below. What's your style? Crisp, romantic, girly, quirky? Maybe start with whichever of these two rooms you like best and then think about what you would like to change in the room to bring it closer to being right for you. Then look for other styles of rooms, either on Houzz or on Google images or in magazines. Work out what makes you say, "Yes, please!" Then determine what furniture you have that needs to stay -- if the colour's not right, can you paint it? If you could give us a couple of pics of the room as it is now, with that information, and an idea of what kind of room you dream of, you could get more useful help. In my opinion, a reader needs good bedside lights and a well-lit reading chair, as well, of course, as bookshelves -- and there are all kinds of great ways to fit shelves into a room. Do you also need homework space in your bedroom? There are all sorts of super ways to accessorise your room to reflect your love of reading, too. But first things first .......See MoreMy bedroom
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5 years agoI think some simple and tasteful additions to your room will make it appealing .... we recently staged our house and learned a lot from the process. But the feedback we got from our real estate agent was that our home had this beautiful energy, was decorated with pride and had a presence about it that made you want to stay ... I think designing your space to be classically understated, whilst feeling warm and homely, will bring a 'feeling' that can't be designed if that makes sense? For an agent to say our home felt warm, had a beautiful energy and 'got soul'.... really was a great compliment. My grandmother's homes were never 'display homes' - but they always had a sweet, 'homey' energy that made you want to stay? Some may argue it was the sentiment I felt or the people that were already in them.... but I disagree.... a home is what you make it :)
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