Tips to Making Your Bedrooms More Inviting...

Bedroom Staging Tips:

Luxurious fabrics and warm colors will make your bedroom feel inviting for potential buyers.

1. Remove distracting, unnecessary furniture from the bedroom. Bedrooms should send a signal of relaxation and comfort, if you have multiple purposes in one room, people will think there aren't enough rooms in the house for you and there won't be for them. When in doubt, take it out!
2. Headboards draw attention to the bed and make the room feel fancy! When buyers enter into a master bedroom, they are expecting to see luxury, comfort, and elegance. Make sure your master suite exudes all three!
3. Coordinate your bedding and window treatments to add instant style and class!

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Bring Your Bathroom from Dingy to Dazzling in a Flash

To continue with June's "Staging to Sell" topic we will focus on Bathroom staging tips! Bringing your bathroom from dingy to dazzling in a flash!

Bathrooms

1. Grimy bathroom walls = a major red flag for buyers! Get rid of surface mold by mixing a spray bottle with one part water and one part bleach. Then spray it on the wall and watch as the mold disappears! Then give your bathroom a fresh coat of paint and watch your bathroom go from red-flag to red-hot!
2. Avoid dated tile by painting. Bathrooms sell houses, but dated tile in a bathroom does not! A low-cost alternative to replacing tile is to use paint. First coast the tiles with a high-adhesion primer, next brush on a special ceramic expoxy covering. For a fraction of the cost of new tile you will have an up-to-date bathroom that brings in big bucks.
3. Pedestal sinks are a huge hit with buyers! This fashionable sink type shows off square footage in small bathrooms beautifully and gives your bathroom a dramatic appeal that will bring in the big bucks!

Next up... Bedroom Staging making your bedrooms feel inviting for potential buyers.

Staging for Your Kitchen

Kitchen Staging Tips

New kitchen appliances - especially stainless steel ones - are always a major selling point!

1. You don't have to replace your dated kitchen cabinets stain them! Dated kitchen cabinets are a big turnoff to potential buyers! Just apply the stain in even strokes, going with the grain, then add some stylish hardware and your kitchen will have an up-to-date look that buyers will love, for less than $200!!
2. Stainless-steel appliances are definitely "in" with buyers.
3. Save some money on granite counter tops! Granite is a huge selling feature in home, but it can get a little pricey. Here are a few ways to save on this investment: first do the demo yourself. Also, ask the vendor for remnants from previous projects. Remember any money you spend will definitely be returned in the value these beautiful counters add to your kitchen.

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June's Home Selling Strategy- Increase Your Home's Value with Some Simple Staging

Staging your home is proven to increase your sale price up to seven percent, so it is definitly worth your time to evaluate your home room-by-room! Here are some quick tips to help play up your home's assests and downplay it's faults.

Living Rooms

Remember to look at your rooms through the buyers eyes, replace clutter and personal items with simple, neutral accessories to bring out the best in your living room!

1. Add interest to old hardwood flooring - replace any damaged boards by cutting them out and replacing with new. Then rent a sander from your local hardware store like Home Depot, and give the floor a good sanding. Then stain the floors with a rich color and watch your floor go from drab to fab in no time!
2. Built-ins- buyers love built-in bookshelves, however there is a fine line between filling them with clutter and staging to sell! To stage: arrange neutral items in clustes, make sure that no single accessory stand out too much so as to show off your attractive built-ins, not your personal belongings!

Next Room..... Kitchens....

8 Kitchen Cleaning Tricks that will Amaze You!

Do-It-Yourself Tips & Tricks to Make Your Kitchen Sparkle!!

1. Mix Hydrogen Peroxide + Water+ a few drops of ammonia

and you get an awesome you have created a fantastic do-it-yourself home cleaner perfect for removing stone countertops stains like coffee or juice!!

2. 1/2 Cup of Baking Soda + 2 Gallons of Water = Sparkling Tile floors.

Use a string mop or sponge with this do-it-yourself mixture and you will have sparkling clean tile floors!

3. 2 Tablespoons of Oil + 3 Tablespoons of Salt cleans up your hard to clean cast iron pots!

To clean add 2 Tablespoons of oil to a cast iron pan and heat on medium heat, once oil is heated add 3 tablespoons of salt. Next use tongs to hold a paper towel and scour pan until clean. Then rinse and coat with vegetable oil to cure.

4. 9 Parts warm water + 1 Part White Vinegar = Gleaming, like new hardwoods

This super cheap trick keeps your floors shining for days!

5. Wipe away wall splatters with warm water & a paper towel for stubborn stains use a little dishwashing detergent

6. Steel Wool

Got a few scratches on your beautiful stainless steel appliances? Never fear, steel wool will minimize that scratch in no time! Rub it gently in line with the grain until marks disappear, then try spraying a wax based aerosol spray like Ball's Stainless Steel Cleaner/Polish.

7. Alka Seltzer +Water:

To clean your pesky narrow vases, let Alka Seltzer do your work. Fill half way with water, drop in a few Alka Seltzers and call your cleaning done!

8. Ketchup!

To remove tarnish from copper and brass fixtures, pots, or pans give ketchup a shot! Gently dab some onto a soft cloth and gently rub. Finish by rinsing with warm water!

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