Home Staging: decorate your tourist apartment to rent it faster after the pandemic

The confinement caused by Covid-19 seems to be subsiding little by little. In addition, summer is approaching at the end of the month in Spain, so everything points to tourist accommodations receiving clients again.

To get reservations quickly, it is necessary that your apartment catches the eye immediately. In this article, we will explain how the technique of Home Staging serves to decorate your apartment and obtain magnificent photos. These methods can be applied both during the coronavirus pandemic and once the crisis is over.

The importance of Home Staging

Home Staging is a technique that means preparing your home as a scene. In other words, making your apartment an authentic showcase to attract the public's attention.There are decisions that are made unconsciously, we make them in milliseconds in our brain and Marketing scholars know very well how to work them.In marketing, the package that surrounds the product is called “silent seller”, it is usually the sum between the search for attention and brand-color values. This silent seller captures the customers' gaze through the arrangement of colors and messages in the package.Well, in Real Estate, the silent seller is the images of an apartment. The photographs shown in online real estate directories are the first contact with your home, and therefore it is necessary to ensure the shot.If you are the apartment owner, you will be interested in hiring a professional apartment decoration service beforehand. Once decorated and set, you can take the best photos and even record a video, which will be the guide for visitors to these tourist apartment directories.In turn, there are other tips for tourists to find your (accommodation within these huge pages, here we explain how to fill out your ad on Airbnb or Booking

Home Staging techniques to apply after Covid-19

Normally, your tourist apartment would have been closed during the coronavirus crisis. Also, some owners have chosen to switch from tourist accommodations to temporary rental contracts in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, and other major cities. Now, it is time to reopen them to attract the first tourists. If you are thinking that your apartment ads can look better, it is the opportune moment to redecorate and take new photos. Some of the most used Home Staging techniques when preparing an apartment to shine in photographs are the following:

Furnished and equipped apartments

You must present your property with the furniture that the client will enjoy. A neutral but useful furniture that maintains the same style in each room.

Without cluttering with furniture

The environments should have furniture, but not so much that it hinders the movement of people. It is even advisable to remove furniture located in hallways. In turn, we do not want to cover the strong points of a dwelling with unnecessary furniture.

Natural lighting

Natural light brings a special tone to property photos. Windows should be wide open to take advantage of every sunbeam in the image. Therefore, it is also advisable to carry out the photo report on sunny days.

Bright colors

Both furniture and decorative elements, bed linen or cushions should be brightly colored, but not too bold. After all, you want to attract the attention of all kinds of profiles.

Symmetrical furniture

A major help can be to organize the furniture and decorative elements symmetrically. In general, humans tend to symmetry, which provides tranquility.

Plants, flowers and candles

Three elements that are very helpful in the decoration are plants, flowers and candles. They are used to fill empty spaces like tables or even to cover up corners of a wall that need renovation. We hope you have found this article on how to apply Home Staging to get your first customers after the covid-19 pandemic useful. If you want to delve deeper, you can read this post on how to manage my tourist apartment during the coronavirus.