Cheap Touchups Before Selling A Home

If you’re preparing to sell your home, you may want to consider some quick touchups you can do to improve the overall look and feel of your home. Who knows – these touchups may help you sell the house for more without requiring you to put in too much money and effort. Plus, it’s always great to do this before you leave a house if you have the time.

Without further ado, here are some simple, affordable ways to spruce up your home before it goes on the market:

• Interior painting: a nice coat of paint on your walls can go a long way, plus you want to cover any screaming colors (pink, bright blue/green, orange, etc.) with neutral colors that the next homeowners will prefer when selecting the house. Painting does require some effort, but it’s rather inexpensive and can change the entire feel of the room and space.

• Refinishing wood: while refinishing wood isn’t expensive, it requires quite a bit of effort. If you want to touch up your nice wood floors or cabinets, you might save the smaller jobs for yourself and the larger ones for the pros. Even a general contractor can refinish wood for you at a low cost. It’s much less than replacing the floors or cabinets and it makes quite an impression.

• Regrouting tile: you probably have tile somewhere in your home and you may not know how long it’s been since someone has put a fresh layer of grout on it. If you can’t remember, then it’s probably time to add some. Regrouting tile is affordable, not difficult and adds more appeal to your existing backsplash, shower or walls. Even if you ask professionals to do it for you, you’re going to keep the costs lower than if you retiled everything.

• Revamp your porch: if you have a porch or just a slab of concrete in your backyard, then you might consider installing an awning. People enjoy a place to kick back and enjoy the sights and sounds of the outdoors. An awning is not an expensive installment and adds a touch of brilliance to the backyard.

See, there are some simple touchups you can do at affordable prices that will help you sell your home quicker and for more money. As the real estate market bouncers back, people are looking to move and buy, so consider these ideas when you begin to list your home.

Even if you don’t want to exert the effort to do these touchups, you can hire construction specialists to do it for you; and since the jobs are relatively simple, labor will be cheap and you’ll be done in no time.