It’s a buyer’s market and selling homes for their maximum sale price is hard in these days of foreclosures and short sales. You’ve heard that home staging is the way to go, but you don’t want to rip out perfectly good fixtures in order to make your home shine. Is there a way you can improve your home’s appearance without putting a huge strain on the environment? The answer is yes!
Cleaning is the number 1 home stager’s weapon. Nothing can take the place of soap and water when it comes to marketing your home. Clean homes smell better – even if you or the buyer doesn’t notice it – and look better. Invest in some orange oil cleansers for a fresh citrus scent and scrub, scrub, scrub! Instead of replacing bathroom fixtures, clean and polish them. Have your home powerwashed if it is covered with vinyl siding.
You may want to repaint your home’s exterior and interior to give it a fresh, new look. There are low- and no-VOC (volatile organic compounds – bad environmental juju) paints available and recycled paint made from bucket leftovers. By carefully cleaning your brushes and rollers, you can make them last longer and be usable for more paint jobs in the future. Trays can also be cleaned and reused. Reusable dropcloths can be used for years instead of temporary plastic ones.
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