10 Spruce-Up Tips in 10 Days. Get More Added Value to Your Home Before You Put it on the Market!!

Day 5~ Fresh Paint!!

This may or may not be necessary for your home.  For example, if your walls don't practically glow in the dark and people don't cringe when they enter your home, you might be okay!  Has is been years since you painted your home last?  Look through home decorator magazines and look at the wall colors.  This will give you a great place to start seeing what is current and appropriate for more potential buyers.  Have a friend come over and give their honest opinion.  Again, you need a friend that's going to be honest with you about this.  If you don't have a good, honest friend then make sure you get a great real estate agent that will be honest with you and tell you what needs to be done.

Understand that you need to paint your walls a neutral color.  By neutral, I do NOT mean ALL beige or white.  I used to think that "neutral" meant "beige".  There was a time when that was true.  However, we have a gazillion different colors that we can now choose from, and there are many that are more neutral.  If you're like me, going into a home improvement store's paint section is a nerve-wracking experience.  However, you can go there, speak to a knowledgeable associate, get a few different samples for a reasonable price, take them home, and make your wall look like an interesting quilt.  "Why?", you ask?  Well, these colors are going to look completely different on your walls at home than they do in the store.  Period.  I don't care how many different kinds of light they have there, the paint WILL.  LOOK.  DIFFERENT.  IN.  YOUR.  HOME! 

Once you have "quilted" your walls with these colors, (and please make certain that you remember what colors are where on your walls!) take a few days to look at them in different lighting in different times of day.  Again, get an honest friend or an honest real estate agent to tell you what works and doesn't!  And then the prep work will begin.  At the bottom of this post, I'm going to give you a link on "10 Things You Must Know About Interior Painting" from the DIY Network.  It's a great guide that's going to help you get exceptional results!

You need to make certain that you properly prep your walls and trim to be painted.  As someone who's painted on numerous occasions, this is VITAL.  Every detail truly matters, and this one can make a huge difference in how the paint looks.  Again, you can hire a professional, but it can be a massive expense!  If you're not comfortable doing it mostly on your own, take a couple of weekends, get some friends together, buy enough food and beverages to feed everyone when they come over, and get it done!  You will save a fortune if you have some good friends to help you along the way.  Just make sure that they are as concerned about getting the good results for you that you're looking for!

Once your home is freshly painted, the potential buyers that walk through will notice the difference!  Good luck and happy selling!


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