Carpet Replacement When Selling A Home

Carpet replacement when selling a home

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Replacing old, dated, stained and thread bare carpet helps to sell homes faster.  Carpet replacement when selling a home offers a104% return on investment, flooring helps the perceived value of a home.

When most homebuyers are tour properties for sale they consider the current condition, anticipated life, anticipated repairs, the cost of maintenance, And holy smokes if the carpet is in poor repair how much it will cost to replace.

What home buyers see underfoot from the color, style and comfort level color will impact the affects the perceived  quality of life.  Don’t let those floors get off easy, put them to work for you in helping home buyers fall I lovewith your house so it can sell faster and for more money.

Carpeting will benefit a home by reducing ten times the acoustical airborne noise, texture and color will add beauty, soften a rooms appearance, frame furniture by making it look my distintictive.  If a warm cozy atmosphere is what what you look to provide then carpet has the ability to mKe a comfortable environment for the home.

Carpet colors of 2015 are gray and taupe neutral colors.  They make excellent backdrops for home furnishings and are versatile and safe when wanting to appeal to a broad range of homebuyers.  Shaw floor color forecast for 2015 is River Themes Taupe, think London Fog raincoat and you are on the right track.

Textures and pattern will be in the organic form of leaves, trellises, or flowers, shapes that coordinate easily with patterns in other furnishings.

This year when you are thinking of Carpet Replacement When Selling A Home, think in terms of tantalizing tootsies with the soft comfort of carpet.

 

 

 

Painting When Selling a Home

Painting when selling a home provides a whooping 148 percent return on investment with dramatic results and little investment.

Repair any damaged interior walls by patching all chips, cracks, dents, dings and holes; then touch up or repaint interior walls with neutral color.  Wanna know the priority rooms?  Read on…

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Paint Color – Home Staging

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Often when doing a home staging consultation in an owner occupied house that will be for sale on the market (not new construction), I reccommend to clients that they paint their walls.  Trust me, I don’t think that people like to paint. I almost always hear loud groans.  So, if the home seller is groaning when I recommend  a new paint color, you can bet your bottom dollar that so will potential home buyers, if they think they will have to paint when they move into their new home (I think that is the last thing they want to do after moving, right?).

When home staging, a new color may be recommended if:  the paint color needs to be updated, or the client has bold paint color and/or dark paint color that may not appeal to the broadest range of potential buyers.  Not mention should paint be needed due to dents, dings and holes.

For a home seller it can be overwhelming to select a paint color that will appeal to a broad range of potential buyers.  Following I will share top color trends that are being seen in today’s model homes as well as newly constructed homes.

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