Selling Your Home - Curb Appeal
It's hard for most of us to be objective about our own homes especially when it comes to curb appeal.
Selling your home during the winter months can be a challenge. With spring, the flowers are blooming and are very pretty, the trees and lawns are green.
Your Realtor should also give you ideas on how to enhance curb appeal.
Here are some inexpensive tips to improve your home's curb appeal during the winter:
- If you have wrought iron that is looking shabby, touch it up with spray paint.
- Purchase 2 large decorative planters and fill them with colorful, artificial flowers and place them on your steps. You will be amazed at how inviting that will be. And it will create a focal point to buyers.
- Brass door knobs - shine them up!
- Trim those overgrown bushes so they don't cover-up the front of your home.
- Paint the trim of your home and the front door. If you have shutters, paint those too. These little things can make a huge difference!
- Clean the outside windows. You will be amazed at how much your home will sparkle.
- If it's not too cold outside, paint your fence or do it as soon as the weather is warmer.
- Replace your mailbox if it's looking weather-beaten.
- Add a bird bath to your front and back yard. People like nature and it's inexpensive.
- Add lights to your walkway. The easiest are the solar ones and again, they are inexpensive.
- Place an iron banner sign into the ground that says, "Welcome Friends" it does put smiles on people's faces. Or those welcome rocks.
Doing these little things can go a long way for curb appeal. Use your imagination and get creative!
Jackie Connelly-Fornuff
NYS Licensed Real Estate Agent
Century 21 AA Realty
When You Want Your Home SOLD....Call Jackie!
Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Cell: (631) 703-0201
Office: (631) 226-5995 Ext. 242
Email: JackieC@century21aa.com
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