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Remember the days from your childhood when if someone would walk into your room, how you would push all the clutter under the bed just to make the room look neat and tidy? Well, pardon the cliché, but old habits do die hard. A lot of homeowners who have listed their homes up for sale, due to whatever reason, often employ the same technique to get a better deal. A faulty roof often gets painted so that the buyers only concentrate on how new it looks. Take it for what it's worth, but buyers today are aware of such shenanigans. Now, every time they check out a new place, they examine everything with microscopic detail. If you have just put your home on the listings, then a sure-shot way of not getting branded together along with the lazy homeowners is to use some simple DIY techniques to revamp your crib while adding value to it. Let us check out some of the easiest ones possible on a short notice.
Redo parts of the Kitchen
For almost all homeowners, the kitchen is the actual place where things really happen, especially if there are kids involved. This is why, the first place most people check out in a new house, with surgeon like concentration is the kitchen and all the equipment in it. Sinks, taps, faucets, shelves, exhaust vents and everything else that makes the kitchen complete are important. Maybe it's because they can be tested at the spot or maybe simply because they are shiny; the majority of buyers check out the faucets in the kitchen without even blinking. If you want to entice them into short listing your house, ensure that the sinks and faucets are perfectly functional. In case they are not, you could try replacing them. It's quite easy and does not necessarily need professional help. Sinks cost around $400 and faucets somewhere around the $150 mark, but you can save money by making the entire process DIY.
Newly Painted Rooms
When you're trying to sell a product, no matter what the magnitude of the sale is, as a seller you try to ensure it looks as new as possible. When trying to sell a house, the same logic applies. It doesn't take much time or effort to paint a room in a house and a can of paint costs about $30 each. No matter what your color preferences are, you need to take the buyers' choice into consideration. Since you cannot please everyone, the best option is to go for a safe color. As the house will have newly painted rooms, the return you will get on your paint investment is quite high. The chance of sale goes up and this also potentially opens up your house for a potential bidding war.
The power of crown moldings
When a guest enters your house, he or she might not be looking up towards the crown moldings or the lack of them. But when a potential buyer enters your home, such things do grab his or her attention. Crown moldings give the interiors of the house a finished feel and make the borders between the walls and the roof look seamless, thereby accentuating the house's beauty. If the other houses in your locality do not have these installed, then your installation could actually seal the deal for you. And it doesn't cost much either - a paltry $5 for a linear foot. The return you get for this investment makes crown molding one of the best DIY options for adding value to your house.
New Doors to jazz up the place
Designer doors are the new craze in the interior decorating world and the options popping out in this field are potentially limitless, thanks to the very competitive pricing listed on these doors. The most obvious thing to do would be to install a new front entrance door as that is the first thing a potential buyer would notice even before entering the home. But once he is in, that is where the real enticement begins. Not everyone pays attention to the interior doors. If you install a few designer wood interior doors before the buyers show up, you would actually be one of the few homeowners to do so. The cost of the doors can be included in the cost of the entire plot, so you aren't spending anything at all to get these installed.
Finally, landscaping
All your efforts of making your house look nice will go to waste if the area outside your porch is not well maintained. Take a day off from work to remove all the weeds from the shrubs, trim the hedges and rake out the fallen leaves. The presentation of the house before one actually enters it, matters more than you would imagine.
These DIY techniques are very easy to do and they do not need any professional guidance. Just invest some time watching a few instructional videos on the web and you're good to go.
