The challenge with a basement bedroom is keeping it from feeling dark and dreary. When you’re selling your home, you want to take full advantage and maximize the potential use of the entire space. Make it feel light, bright, and useable with professional home staging.
 

There’s nothing more creepy than walking into a dark and dingy basement with tiny windows and trying to imagine wanting to spend time down there (well, maybe unless you’re a teenager or cave dweller!).
 

So when you’re selling your home, your job is to make the basement feel as welcoming and useable as possible for potential buyers. That job is intensified when you are trying to highlight an extra basement bedroom or possible granny suite set-up.
 

In this basement bedroom we staged in an Huntington Hills, Calgary, you’ll notice the one very small window across from the bed. That’s the only natural light this room receives. But do you feel like the room is small, dark, dingy, and unwelcoming?
 

Hopefully not! That’s because we kept it feeling light, bright, and calm with our staging choices.
 

We created a sea-inspired and Zen-feeling room by keeping this basement bedroom a relatively monotone space that includes minimal furniture, art, and accessory pieces. Potential buyers can easily imagine escaping to this quiet retreat at the end of the day for a restful night’s sleep.
 

When staging a basement bedroom, or any room for that matter, understanding who your most likely potential buyers are and what they are hoping to use the space for is critical. Don’t leave your basement bedroom feeling like a dungeon. That’s not what modern buyers want to pay for. Want to stay in touch and read more of our home staging tips? Follow Set Your Stage on Twitter.