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Budget Home Improvements for Home Value Increase

If you are selling your home, you want to receive the best price possible. While certain home improvements, like kitchen remodels, can increase home worth by substantial quantities, the price of this kind of improvement is often out of reach for the vendor, but do not despair. It’s possible to make many low-cost improvements for your home that help boost the value and may create a faster sale.

Landscaping Upgrades

The very first thing a prospective buyer sees when he pulls up to your home is the outside of the home and the lawn. If your lawn is full of dead plants or dirt stains and your bedroom beds are full of weeds instead of flowers, your first priority is producing greater curb appeal. You are able to patch dead spots in your lawn with seed or sod to even out the tough spots. If you have shrubs that are out of control, trim them back to some nice shape and add smaller shrubs or alternative leaf or flowering colours to gain depth and variety in your landscaping. In every available spot in your landscaping beds, add flowers in a vibrant array of colours.

Exterior Paint

If your exterior paint is peeling or your home remains trimmed in a shade from the’70s, it is time to scratch the peeling paint and repaint in an updated, attractive color that accents another exterior finish on your home and sets off your own landscaping. Aside from the lawn, the exterior of your home is the first thing a prospective buyer sees when he arrives in your home.

Interior Paint

If your interior paint colours are out of ages past or the walls reveal that the marks and wear and tear of daily living, a fresh coat of paint may give the interior of your home an entirely new feel. Use bright white, semi-gloss paint all molding to make a fresh, crisp feel to the room. If your home has lower ceilings, paint the ceiling with bright white paint to produce the ceilings look higher and open the room.

Kitchen Updates

The kitchen is one of the most expensive rooms in the home to update given all the equipment and cabinetry involved with a total remodel, therefore an attractive kitchen is always a good selling point for almost any home as it takes the priciest remodeling job from the equation to get a new owner. Old, dark cabinets could be painted and sanded to get a new, refreshing look. If you have laminate countertops in an old color and with chips or dings, think about upgrading to ceramic tile. Home improvement stores market double-stick sheets that allow the inexperienced homeowner to pay a countertop with the sheeting and press ceramic tile right onto it for fast and easy attachment. The tile is ready to grout instantly, making tiling a one-of-a-kind update.

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