Quick and Inexpensive Redesign Tips When Selling Your Home

Simple Redesign Tips When Selling Your Home - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

Hi, I am Mary Bokovoy, owner of Hood River reDesign. And a lot of people are coming to me right now, wanting to know what they can do to inexpensively and easily update their home for sale. And I always look to 3 main things about taking years off a space and that is lighting, floating your furniture and modernizing your artwork. So let us go one at a time there.

Lighting: Those are the ceiling fans, and your light fixtures through every room. Often people just keep what came originally with the house. And those are real dated and they are very obvious. And so if you simply take those down, its one of the cheapest fixes of either updating them at home depo, or a little trick I have that a lot of homeowners do get away with, is taking them down, and literally spraying them with what is in fashion now as far as finishes. For example, you could take down lights that were put up in the 90s that are gold and brass looking, and you spray them with an oil rubbed bronze, spray paint that is made for metal finishes and you will have a whole new look for the cost of $3 for updating all the lights in your house.

Second, moving on to floating your furniture. First of all, you want to edit down your furniture, of course, to just the basics, and then once you have done that try pushing the furniture off the walls, so that potential buyers actually walk around your whole room and all the way up to the windows. This will actually let more light into your space and make it feel like your room is larger than it actually is.

And then lastly is updating your artwork. Typically artwork is very personalized and usually too small for the scale of the room. What you can do is go to an art store, buy some thick, large large canvases. Use your whole left over house paint, you probably have them lying down in the garage, and even paint solid colors onto the canvases, which is a very modern look, and it looks very generic but stylish at the same time. It will appeal to the mass amount of buyers, as many as possible. And you have made your house look much more useful. So if you do those 3 tricks, I believe you will get a quicker sale.