9 Tips for Enhancing the Sale of Your Home
Spring is a great time to sell, and with home sales on the rise, this is a perfect time to sell your current home and purchase a new home. If you’re considering selling your current home to be able to either build a new custom home or buy an existing new home, here are some ways you can touch up your home for sale for the bargain price of $400! Staging your home is a great way to build up home equity in order to possibly move up and buy your new dream home. Below are 9 tips for enhancing the sale of your home.
Tip1: Let’s start in the bathroom. Adding a shower screen is an easy fix to update your shower tub combo with clean lines and ease of use. Instead of using a bulky shower curtain, a shower screen gives a subtle look making your bathroom feel bigger with a custom finish. Shower screens are easy to install yourself, but make sure to affix the 
shower curtain to something solid and sturdy.
Tip 2: Want to add a splash of color to a room? Use a rug. Instead of spending a ton of money on new carpet for your room, add a throw rug giving your room a new elegant, modern, or luxurious statement.
Tip 3: Adding window treatments can complete a room and add a bit of warmth to an area. Buyers do not want to come into a home and see poorly hung blinds or be able wave at their potential neighbor through their bathroom window. When choosing blinds or curtains, measure your window carefully before placing your order and choose where you will position your hardware for hanging. This can make or break how your window treatment will enhance your room.
Tip 4: No one wants to come into their potential home, walk down the hallway and think to themselves, “Oh this looks so dark and closed in.” The majority of home buyers want natural light. An easy fix to your dark hallways and corridors is to replace solid doors with glass-paneled doors. The glass-paneled doors will bring light into those dark areas creating an airy feel to the space.
Tip 5: When selling your home, you want to give the illusion that there is a lot of space for all of your needs. If you have a crammed laundry space, a great way to create the illusion of space in your laundry area is to use the space above your where the appliances sit. There are many systems on pulleys, such as Pulleymaid which can lift and hang your laundry above creating an out of the way place to hang your laundry.
Tips 6 & 7: The most important room to impress a home buyer is your kitchen. That is why we include two tips to stage your home’s kitchen for a quick sale. First, find a clever, out of the way place to stash your trash bin. Many 
kitchen retailers sell just that – a system that will fit your kitchen bin into your existing kitchen drawer or cabinet. This makes your kitchen a clean “fresh smelling” area for potential home buyers.
The second tip for your kitchen is to give your kitchen a makeover. You do not need a whole new kitchen to show off what you have. You can do this simply by replacing cabinet handles, painting doors, re-grouting tile, and replacing your sink fixtures. These suggestions will give your kitchen a more up to date feel.
Tip 8: They always say the lighting can make or break a photo. Well, this can also apply to your home. You want to wow your potential home buyer with the best light to enhance your home’s features. The quickest way to do this is to use LED lighting. There is no rewiring, all you have to do is replace your existing bulbs with LED bulbs and it will change the quality of light and you will save on energy bills! To add a clever touch of light you can always add strip lighting but that will call for a little wiring.
Tip 9: Last but not least. If you have carpet over any hardwood floors, tear…it…up! Hardwood floors are in and give any home a clean up to date look. If you do have hardwoods under carpet, be prepared to rent a floor sander. This will help you transform your floors to a great finished look.
Selling your home should not be a roadblock for you. The selling of your current home can be easy if staged the right way. It can lead to a quick sale and more money in your pocket for your new home. If you are considering a move-up or just a move, come and see what homes for sale Bedico Creek has to offer. Located on Highway 1085 in Madisonville, in the booming I-12 Corridor, Bedico Creek is just minutes from shopping, restaurants, entertainment, and healthcare facilities, with more being added each year.
Homeowners with children have access to some of the best public and private schools that St. Tammany Parish has to offer. Every one of the recommended builders at Bedico Creek Preserve has gone through a careful screening process to ensure that buyers are going to get some of the best, most qualified builders in the area. These preferred builders are ready to design and build homes on a lot purchased by the home buyer, or home buyers can use their own plans and builder in most neighborhoods, with approval by the Architectural Control Committee.
More information is available about this fast-growing, premier St. Tammany Parish master planned community by e-mailing Info@LiveBedico.com or calling 985-845-4200.
