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Add Value to Your Home With These Simple Home Repairs
Fri 21 Aug 2009 - 21:42
Add Value to Your Home With These Simple Home Repairs
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Maria_Faith]Maria Faith
Selling your home will be a lot easier if you decide to add glitter to it. Decorate the outside and do some repairs on the inside so your buyer will see that your house is well taken cared of. To do this, you can hire an interior expert to help you wit the decoration process. You can also ask a professional home stager on ways you can set up your house to make it more appealing to buyers. If you do not have the budget to hire professionals to help you out, you can still add a touch of freshness to your home on your own. Keep reading this article to discover simple ways you can retouch your property.
First off, you will need to have a pen and paper ready for you will inspect your house thoroughly while taking note of the repairs and maintenance to be done. Inspect your house as if you are the buyer or the inspector. This will give you an unbiased point of view throughout the process. Check out the entire house in detail starting from front to back and from top to bottom. When you are done, look at the list you made and check the things repairs you can manage on your own. After that, list the equipment you need for the project ahead. Leave the technical jobs to the experts such as the plumbing, electrical and masonry jobs. If you try to do it yourself and you do not have the knowledge and the skill to do so, you can damage it more or worse, you can even hurt yourself. There are contractors out there who can do the technical work for you for a small fee so leave it to the hands of the experts for your good and the good of your house also.
Start your general cleaning from your front lawn up to your main door. Take care of your garage by cleaning it with a jet cleaner to remove the unwanted stains. Your doors should be polished and its fittings should be changed when needed. You would not want to show a house with a creaking door would you? Add decorative pieces to it if you feel like it. Moving inside the house, you should start by paying attention to you ceiling. Paint your ceilings and your walls to give it a fresh look. After that, you can now move on to your flooring. Give extra attention to your bathroom and kitchen for these areas can make or break the decision of your buyers. Also, these are the areas with the most pitfalls. Clean the heavy equipment in your kitchen and fix leakages in the bathrooms as a result of humidity.
Last but not the least, after the whole house has been cleaned, it is time to decorate. Go to your local market for source of effective wall hangings, paintings and other locally made decorations. Add glitter to your drawing room by filling it up with corner stands and small furniture like bedside tables and handicraft mementos.
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