ome sellers who wish to fountain, a large urn, or a
market their property in beautiful tree. Enhance your
development neighborhoods walkway with enticing plants or
face tough challenges. All the light fixtures that clearly mark
houses look similar. All the the path to the front door. Use
houses sell for amounts in the color psychology to either paint
same price range. The market -- your front door or its framework
whether it's a hot sellers' a happy, inviting color, such as
market or a cool buyers' market Sherwin William's Torchlight
-- largely determines the price, (golden wheat) or Rose Tan.
purchase terms, and length of
time to sell. 2. Mystery. Most home
searchers only spend three to
How do you make your home stand four minutes looking at the
out from the crowd? How can you average home. Enchant with
turn your property into a "hot" mystery as soon as the prospects
sale, even if the market's enter your home. Make the buyer
lukewarm? Remember the "Three take a second look by using
M's" and apply these Design Design Psychology lighting
Psychology strategies as you tricks. Place a palm tree so that
stage your home for sale: it partially blocks the view of
the hallway. Uplight the palm
1. Magnetism. Because tree with a canister light that
most buyers won't even get out of casts captivating shadows on the
their car unless a home shows walls and ceiling.
promise, create an exciting
exterior that draws prospective 3. Memory. Home shoppers
buyers to your home. Place an look at many houses in a row.
interesting focal point in your Your goal is to get the buyers to
front yard, such as a water remember your home above all
others. Design psychology can
help you do this. Think about Turn heads with your enticing
your buyers' dream: they want a home. Turn viewers into buyers.
lifestyle --not just a house. Turn your typical tract house
Make your buyers believe that if into a buyers' dream home using
they choose your home, they will home staging methods that create
have the privilege and right to a lifestyle delight.
take a nap in that "fantastic
garden hammock," read a great Copyright (c) 2005 Jeanette J.
book in your private reading Fisher All rights reserved.
nook, or cook a delicious meal in
your gourmet kitchen.
About the Author:
Jeanette Fisher, author of Joy to the Home Journal, Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST, and Home Staging for Top-Dollar Sales, teaches design psychology college courses and professional real estate investing seminars. For home selling tips see http://www.sellfast.info For home staging strategies see http://www.homestaging.us
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