Decorating To Sell |
When preparing to sell your home, think about how your personal decorating style may affect prospective buyers.
You want your home to be clean and clutter-free and as neutral as possible so prospective buyers can visualize how their furnishings will look in your home. And keep in mind, there is a difference in how you live in your home and how it should look when it's on the market. |
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Your Interior
- Clean all windows, storms, and screens
- Clean your hanging light fixtures and chandeliers
- Painting can help a home look newer...and it's an instant cure for outdated wallpaper and colors
- Remove worn or outdated carpet and refinish wood floors
- Remove small appliances from counters and magnets from refrigerator
- Clean your stove, oven, floors, tub, shower and toilet
- Clean up any areas that are cluttered: rooms, closets, garages, etc.
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Appeal To The Senses
- Aroma...keep your house smelling fresh by burning candles or potpourri, boiling a pot of cinnamon sticks or putting a dab of vanilla on a cold light bulb before turning it on
- Clean your kitty litter box
- Ask a friend to care for your pets or take them to a kennel when your home is being shown
- Put out some fresh flowers, your best towels, a nice tablecloth and other accessories
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Your Exterior
- Repaint your exterior front door and trim
- Paint your mailbox or lamp post
- Make sure your doorbell works
- Polish hardware and exterior light fixtures
- Replace your house numbers if needed
- Buy a new doormat
- Fix broken windows, screens, and storms
- Remove oil marks from drive and garage floor
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Curb Appeal
- Put flowers or blooming green plants in pots near your front entry
- Mow, fertilize, water, rake, and weed your lawn regularly
- Remove dead leaves, limbs and other debris from lawn
- Trim trees and hedges
- Put fresh bark or crushed stone around trees, shrubs or hedges
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Buying & Selling Tips
