First Home Tips - Home Decorating Tips

First Home Tips

Cheap and Quick Decorating Tips to Boost the Value of your Home
Find out how you can redecorate and boost the value of your home

Everyone agrees that the housing market isn’t moving as quickly as it was a couple of years ago. If you want to give your house a little sales boost as it prepares to enter the market, you can stage your home for a quick sale by following these simple tips.
Walls and Floors
The two best investments you can make prior to listing a home are flooring and paint. A fresh coat of paint in a fresh, neutral shade can boost a home’s attraction and price by quite a bit. Installing new carpet also gives buyers an instant impression that the home is well-maintained and clean. Rooms such as bathrooms and kitchens can also benefit from laminate, new vinyl, and wood flooring.
Window and Lighting Treatments
You can buy well-placed lamps and well-chosen window treatments to show your home off in its best light. Your home will appear larger, cleaner and brighter with more light. Sconces can brighten up a dim hallway or foyer, while boring windows can be dressed up with window treatments. Install outside lighting too, since many buyers check out homes for sale during evenings.

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Curbs and outdoors
Choose decorative planters and fresh flowers to decorate your front lawn. Avoid garish decorations such as flamingos or gnomes. Install a new mailbox to heighten your home’s curb appeal and use a decorative address marker to help buyers find your home easily.
Decorative accents, flowers, towels
This is an old rule of thumb: flower arrangements can give a house instant visual flair. You can put fresh or silk flower arrangements around the foyer, kitchen, and bedside tables to give a visually compelling, spacious feel to your home for the buyer. You can also buy new soft towels to add some style and flair to the bathroom. Fresh shower curtains will also update your bathroom look. Wall art and area rugs can also enhance your home if well-chosen. Slipcovers can also be bought to cover dingy living room furniture.
Garish colors or styles
Although color is often a subjective matter, red walls in the kitchen or bright pink carpeting might not be to the buyers’ tastes. Select attractive neutral shades for permanent fixtures such as floors and walls. Limit bright colors to art and linens. Also, be sure to eliminate any dirt or clutter in your home.
Personal Items
Although your family wall of photos is a great part of your home décor, when selling a home, it is best to carefully pack personal memorabilia away. It is more difficult for buyers to project themselves into your home with personal artwork, trophies, or knickknack collections lying around.