How to Increase Your Home’s Value Without Spending a Ton

Our home value may feel set in stone: but it’s surprisingly malleable. Instead of thinking you’re stuck with selling it for lower than you want, you can easily update your home in small ways that will build into a large profit. Regardless of what you do, take it piece by piece, and you’ll be able to stretch out any expense it causes as well.

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Put Time Into The Lawn and Property

Lawn work, when done well, has a 100% or more return on how much you put into it. The best plan of action is to put a lot of energy into shaping up the lawn, cutting grass, cleaning up edges, and putting in plants and flowers that complement it. Dedicating a few hours every weekend will keep the yard looking fresh and beautiful and will entice buyers. Although it changes nothing about the comfort or beauty of the inside of your home, your curb appeal controls a lot of your home’s value.

Deep Cleaning and Painting

When people look at a dingy home or have smudges and cracks in paint, their mind immediately jumps to the thought that it was poorly maintained, which lowers the property’s value in their minds. Stop this from happening by deep cleaning your home.

Use magic eraser sponges to remove streaks or smudges on parts of your home that you can’t paint, and then paint everything else you can. Paint doesn’t have to be expensive; it just has to be applied intelligently. Take your time, tape everything carefully, and give your home a fresh look. This can, and should, apply to both the inside and the outside of the house.

Update Your Lighting

Although people may not realize it while they’re looking in a home, the lighting can affect their perception of the space. To keep the lighting pleasant, take the time to replace your bulbs with soft white light that’s not entirely yellow. Clear blue-tinted light can strain eyes and make things look strangely green, so even if you like these in your home, if you’re selling, you need to replace them.

Pay Attention to the Details

As stated before, people care about the appearance of a property more than they even know. In addition to getting things like beautiful artisan-crafted furniture for your home, if you can take the time to update small things, like light fixtures, doorknobs, handles and hardware on cabinets, and other things that don’t cost that much: it will add up to a lot of perceived value.

You won’t be tricking them or lying to them; you’ll just be polishing an already fantastic home enough that you can skip ahead to looking at a seller closing costs calculator.

Minor Kitchen Updates

Large kitchen updates are infamous for being both overly expensive and time-consuming. Instead of facing that, you can always scale down the size of your update. Paint your cabinets, or refinish the floor, but don’t pour thousands upon thousands of dollars into it. Small kitchen updates offer at least an 80% return since people care deeply about kitchens and their attractiveness. Decide what your kitchen needs, and do it.

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