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Thursday
Nov102011

How You Can Compete with Other Homes for Sale

Selling a home entails numerous factors. For instance, you need to take into consideration what housing market you’re dealing with. Looking at Austin homes for sale, for example, requires you to study the Austin real estate market. You need to prepare your property so you can effectively compete against the real estate industry in your area. No matter where you're selling your home, you can do a few things to improve the chances of your house being sold for a higher price. Doing this doesn’t have to cost you a lot. You just need to be creative and resourceful. Here are a few tips that you might find helpful.

1. Maintenance Tips for Outside the House

In order for you to sell your home at a higher rate, you need to create a good initial impression.  Create curb appeal, which means making your home more appealing and attractive from the outside.  Simple acts like having a good wreath, a new doormat, or even a finely swept covered entrance will make prospective buyers feel warm and welcomed.  Create that cozy and homey feeling that will allow them to imagine the house as their own.

2. Maintenance Tips for Inside the House

Selling your house may involve keeping the property well maintained at all times. You need to show the prospective buyers that your house has been well kept and treated with the utmost care. If you maintain the upkeep on the inside of the house, you're more likely to receive higher offers, and there will be higher chances of getting your house to sell. You should try to make small renovations and alterations, but they don’t need to hurt your pocketbook. A little refurbishing of certain areas that have scratches and slight freshening up of places that make your house look dilapidated almost always does the trick. 

One more way of keeping the house well maintained is to simply keep it clean and spotless! This may seem like something every homeowner who intends to sell their houses should know, but a lot of properties are put up for sale with an unkempt appearance. Keeping your house in an immaculate condition can add to its value.

3. Maintenance Tips for Frequently Used Rooms

Both the kitchen and bathroom are critical places when it comes to showcasing your house to prospective buyers. The kitchen is the place where the family gathers together and spends quality time with each other. This is also the place where homeowners welcome their houseguests, so it's important to have the kitchen in perfect condition. To make it really attractive, you can set up new kitchen counters and install modern appliances. If you can’t afford these kinds of things, you can simply do some deep cleaning to improve the kitchen’s appearance.

The same thing applies to your bathrooms. Scrub your showers and baths clean to make them look bright and pristine. Make the bathrooms look clean and fresh. There’s nothing more off-putting than a dirty bathroom!

4. What to Do with Furniture

Free your house from clutter. Remove any unnecessary and extra furniture. You want the buyers to see the beautiful layout of the house, and that will never be achieved if your home is overstuffed with furnishings. Extra space will allow prospective buyers to imagine a home’s possibilities, and that's a good thing!

So, now you have a roadmap to follow to give your house a competitive edge in this market. You can now painlessly renovate your home to get it ready for sale while staying within your means. If you follow all the previously mentioned home renovation tips, you'll sell your house a lot sooner than you expected.

Monday
Sep262011

Make a Big Splash (in Your Kitchen)

(Kitchen courtesy of MCKB)Janet Ramin - When designing kitchens, plenty of planning and energy go towards choosing the most efficient appliances or the best looking countertops or the most organized cabinets - but what’s often neglected is that wall separating your cabinets and appliances. I started looking into this much more closely since my friend mentioned how bored she was with her kitchen backsplash

Now, mind you, her kitchen is relatively new – it's only a few years old, but since she bought a condo, she really didn’t have much choice in the design plan of her kitchen. She had a choice of two wood finishes for the cabinets and a few more with her granite countertop. But that’s it. Some condo owners don’t even get that much.

I viewed her kitchen again – see photo below – and found that the walls really didn’t have much going there. They extended the granite countertop to create a short backsplash and the rest was just painted plaster walls. Time for a makeover!

(Kitchen, courtesy of Maxwell Place)

I headed over to some of my favorite kitchen showrooms in the city to check out what they had to offer for those kitchen walls. At Manhattan Center for Kitchen and Bath (MCKB), I found some very colorful unique kitchen wall treatments. To emphasize their circular theme, MCKB designers used round ceramic tiles of varying sizes as the backsplash for their very mod peephole cabinets (see top photo). In another installation, MCKB uses glass tiles that are designed to look like bamboo. Glass is highly functional as it’s easy to wipe off any liquids or food stains - and additionally, it’s recyclable.

For a very elegant and contemporary style, take a look at this kitchen designed by Regina Bilotta of Bilotta Kitchens. She created her backsplash using copper-backed glass tiles, called Treble, in a very sexy, ogee-shaped tile pattern. The varying hues of copper, ochre, and reds project a warm, inviting glow. She also applied a cream color glass tile for those who want a more neutral color scheme – see both photos below. Both tiles are available from Artistic Tile

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