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DIY Home Upgrades to Make When Selling Your Home

January 13, 2021 By Martin MacFarlane Leave a Comment

Selling your home is an exciting test of your skills. When you put your property on the Markham real estate market, you get the opportunity to exercise your talents as a real estate guru, sales and marketing expert, interior designer, and home upgrade genius. These skills will be helpful as you aim to sell your home in a short timeframe and at an ideal price.

To demonstrate the quality of your home, you will need to tend to areas requiring an upgrade, so everything is working during viewings. Potential buyers will be happy to see that little work would need to be invested on their part if they were to own the home. This could also help raise your home value price during appraisals.

Here are some simple tips to help you save money on your home upgrades by doing it yourself:

Paint Your Walls

This is an easy, low-cost solution to improve the appearance of your home interior. They’ll look fresh and clean, and could impact the feel of different rooms in your home by establishing them as calm, light, and open, and appealing to the potential buyers’ tastes.

Treat Your Windows

You can treat your windows without needing expert help. Your windows are essential features of the home that offer natural light and reveal outdoor views from your property. Consider high-end treatments that will make the window look longer and larger to improve the appearance of the home’s interior. 

Choose Appealing Fixtures

Subtle extra features could elevate the look of your home with ease. Switching simple accessories like cupboard handles and knobs, faucets, outlet covers, and wall hangings could make the home look more up-to-trend and tasteful. 

Replace existing ceiling lights in your rooms for bright, modern, decorative fixtures to catch the potential buyers’ eyes and make the space look bigger.

Tend to Your Exterior

It’s important to take care of the outside of your home to assure a positive first impression from potential buyers. Spruce up your landscaping by maintaining your lawn, planting attractive flora in your garden, or try adding something extra with a garden statue or birdbath. 

Take a power-washer to your home siding, your driveway, and front path, so it looks fresh with impactful curb appeal.

Go Pro When Necessary

While you can manage these upgrades yourself to boost the value of your home for sale, it’s important to know when to hire an expert. They will perform complicated or tougher repairs like your plumbing and electrical, which could increase your home price offer.

As you approach your home sale, having some tricks up your sleeve, like these home upgrade strategies, could help you thrive on the Markham real estate market. An expert real estate agent, like Martin MacFarlane, will have the insights you need to sell your home quickly at a satisfying price. Contact him today for a successful home sale. 

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