You may not have the funds to hire a professional stager, but every home seller can follow a few helpful staging tips to make sure their house looks like a buyer’s dream home.

As a seller, you must put on a positive first impression on your home. In order to do this, you repair, clean, and strategize marketing for your open houses, but home staging takes it one step further.

Here are some tips on how to stage your home the right way:

Declutter: Less is more. Grab a box, label it “living room” and go through and remove the unnecessary decor. Remove family pictures and trinkets. A buyer needs room to see their…

A potential buyer goes around the house and sees if there is something might hinder him to buy the house. A clean home shows better and there are five ways to make your home shine from roof to baseboards.

Hard to Reach Windows/Skylights. These are often unnoticed either because they are difficult to access to clean or because they are not right at eye level. Whichever the case, cleaning windows in high ceilings or skylights provides a brighter light to shine in your home.

Baseboards and Walls. Give your home a fresh coat of paint prior to putting it on the market. But maybe you can get away with a good wipe-down instead. Using…

The Detroit artists are using the housing crisis and turn it into some interesting projects.

First, some Detroit artists took an abandoned house and made it into the Detroit Ice House. The home’s address, which was secret for awhile, was revealed to be 3920 McClellan St, Detroit, MI. They spent weeks spraying a house with water until it froze into an eerie house sculpture.

Now, a Web designer is selling “space” on a Detroit lot for $1 per square inch. Jerry Paffendorf claims to have nearly “600 “inchvestors” who have purchased 10,000 plots in the “Loveland” art-and-real-estate project on Detroit’s east side. According to Paffendorf’s Loveland site:

“Starting with the smallest unit of…