ou've decided to prepare for selling your home. Include a
your home for sale. Whether Color Plan for attracting buyers
you sell by owner or hire a during the cooler seasons. In the
real estate agent, you want to fall and winter months, you will
get as much money as possible want to emphasize warm colors
without spending your profits. such as reds, oranges, and
The real estate market normally yellows, to convey a welcoming
slows down and most homes take warmth to buyers.
longer to sell during fall and
winter. Now is the time to apply Next, make a list of colors
new real estate marketing ideas you're stuck with -- those you
to make sure your home sells won't be changing. Which warm
quickly (and for full price, of colors do you have? How can you
course!) --without spending a lot enhance these colors with more
of money or doing unnecessary warm color to entice your buyer?
work.
One of the most effective ways to How to Add Color without Spending
enhance your home and attract a Lot of Time or Money
buyers is to strategically add
color. This article shares Design First, you need to make your home
Psychology color secrets for so inviting that buyers will get
marketing houses during cool and out of their car to see the
cold weather. (Watch for Part Two inside. Depending on your
or email me if you need tips for location, you may not be able to
selling your home in a warm plant bright flowers to attract
climate or season.) the buyer's eye. One way to add
color: use red, yellow, or orange
To prepare your home for sale, pots with evergreen plants.
make yourself a Marketing Plan
Look closely at your front door. add elements of color through
If it is not gorgeous wood, paint accessories. Place pillows,
it in a cheerful warm color. For throws, and candles with your
first-time buyers, a cheerful chosen color scheme throughout
primary red door excites the the home. Consider adding
emotions. Upscale buyers will be flowers, pots and containers in
attracted to more complex reds, bright reds, oranges, or yellows.
like maroon or terra-cotta red. Don't overlook the opportunity to
emphasize a chosen color
Indoors, start with the colors psychology scheme through
already present and add the paintings, picture and mirror
colors that attract your target frames, vases, and lampshades.
buyers. Remove unnecessary
furnishings and accessories with When you complete your Color
the wrong or clashing colors. Plan, you will know what steps to
(Under-furnished rooms allow the take to prepare your home for a
buyers to imagine their speedy sale--for top dollar!
furnishings in the space.) To add
significant color without Copyright "© 2005 Jeanette J.
repainting all surfaces, paint Fisher. All rights reserved. (You
only one room with a bold color. may publish this article in its
Or paint window trim and doors entirety with the following
with a color specifically to warm author's information with live
your space. links only.)
Besides painting, you can easily
About the Author:
Jeanette Fisher helps home sellers prepare their homes for top-dollar sales. She is the author of "Sell Your Home for Top Dollar - FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging," "Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars," and other books. For more information on selling your home, and free reports on home selling see http://www.sellfast.info
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