Home Staging Checklist
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Introduction
Our Home Staging Checklist is designed to guide you through the essential steps needed to prepare your home for sale. From enhancing curb appeal to creating inviting living spaces, this comprehensive template ensures every area of your home shines. Use our Checklist App to save and customize your tasks, allowing you to sync across devices and collaborate with family or friends. Make your home stand out in the market and increase its attractiveness to potential buyers.
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- Outside
- Invest in landscaping where it can be seen first.
- Remove any dead plants and weed all planting areas.
- Cut back over-grown shrubbery that looks scraggly or keeps light out of the house.
- Paint your house if necessary.
- In winter, walks must be free of snow and ice.
- Sweep all walkways and patios or decks.
- Inspect the roof and gutters.
- Consider putting flowers outside the front door.
- Repair any broken outside steps.
- Keep lawn closely cut and edged.
- Clean the yard; store toys, bicycles and tools away.
- Repair broken fences and paint if necessary.
- Basement, Attic, Garage
- Clean out attic, basement and garage and dispose of everything that you are not going to move.
- Package everything that you won't need until you're settled in your new home.
- Paint ceilings and walls a light colour in your basement.
- Repair cracks in basement floors and walls with a ready mixed grout.
- Wipe clean the furnace and hot water tank.
- Wash down the garage floor and clean any oil stains.
- Stack stored items neatly against walls.
- Living Areas
- Have all plaster in top shape.
- Check ceilings for leak stains
- In painting and re-decorating always stick to neutral colours.
- Clean your fireplace and lay some fresh logs in it to make it look inviting.
- Wash windows both inside and out.
- Replace any broken or cracked glass.
- Replace all burned out light bulbs.
- Make the floors shine and have carpets professionally cleaned.
- Repair any creaks in the floor.
- Straighten up closets.
- If doors stick slightly, rub a block of paraffin against the surface that shows signs of wear.
- If sliding doors stick, rub the tracks with paraffin or candle wax.
- Lubricate any squeaky hinges.
- Reduce the number of family photos throughout your home.
- Rearrange furniture to create more space and open area.
- Vacuum all carpet and hard wood floors.
- Clear off all coffee tables and end tables.
- Remove all ashtrays
- Kitchen
- Make the kitchen bright and attractive.
- Paint or re-stain cabinets, put up attractive new curtains or blinds.
- Clean the ventilating hood.
- Thoroughly clean to remove any odors.
- Consider new flooring.
- Clear all unnecessary objects from the kitchen countertops.
- Clean counters make a room look larger.
- Bathrooms
- Repair dripping faucets and unclog any plugged drains.
- Hang fresh towels.
- Use a deodorizer in the bathroom area.
- Use special cleaning products to remove stains from toilets, tubs and sinks.
- Keep sinks and mirrors shining.
- Replace old caulking around bathtubs and clean tiles so they sparkle.
- Keep toilet lids closed.
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Presented by:
Nicole Nichols-West
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Who it's for
This Home Staging Checklist is for teams that want consistent execution, less rework, and clear ownership.
- Standardize quality - run the same Home Staging steps every time, regardless of who executes
- Save time - reuse a proven Home Staging workflow instead of rebuilding processes from scratch
- Improve accountability - assign owners and see what's done vs. what's pending
- Onboard faster - use the Home Staging checklist as the SOP and training guide
- Coordinate across roles - handoffs are clear and everyone works from the same source of truth
How to use it
How to use this Home Staging Checklist:
- Start by saving it - save as a Template if you'll reuse it, or as a Checklist if it's a one-off project.
- Customize it once for your workflow - remove what doesn't apply and add your team-specific steps.
- Assign ownership and execute - set owners/due dates where needed and track completion as work happens.
- Reuse without rebuilding - when Home Staging comes up again, start from your saved version and run it with clear ownership.
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