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How to Add Value and Personality to Your Bradenton Home for Sale
7 Tips for Giving Your Home the WOW Factor
When you put your home on the market, the value must be obvious. Your home must generate interest even for a potential buyer who's just driving by. As buyers make the rounds of Bradenton homes for sale, you need a "wow" factor that brings them to your front door. That's a tall order, but it's doable with the right fixes and upgrades.
Our real estate agents understand that upgrading your home is the key to attracting buyers. As many remodeling projects won't deliver a sound return on your investment, you must find other ways to add personality and value. Use these seven tips for adding value and personality to your home for sale.
1. Upgrade Your Bathroom
Home buyers love modern attractive bathrooms. Unfortunately, if you do a full remodel, you won't likely recoup your costs. You still have options for creating a fresh new look.
- Paint - Lighten and brighten your bathroom with fresh paint and trim in pale grays or blues.
- Fixtures - Upgrade your faucets and shower fixtures with modern replacements in metal colors from Venetian bronze to polished copper.
- Hardware - Add new towel bars, hooks, and vanity knobs or handles in colors that compliment your fixtures.
- Grout redo - Freshen your tile with a DIY grout redo. If your grout is dingy but in good condition, repaint it with an economical grout paint pen.
2. Enhance Your Lighting
Trendy pendant lighting fixtures brighten dull corners, make rooms appear more spacious, and add personality. Pendant is the trendy name for drop or suspended lights that hang from the ceiling by a rod or chain. They've been around for a long time, but you can find modern, colorful versions that add value to any room.
- Install a wide light over a work area.
- Hang a track of pendant lights over a kitchen island or dining table.
- Focus a wide beam above artwork, in a foyer, or in a corner.
- Choose LED options to save energy.
3. Freshen Up Your Paint
Fresh paint adds value to your home exterior and a colorfully painted door adds a personality wow. Newly painted walls enhance any room. Pale blues and grays are the new "neutral" colors for kitchens, living rooms, and baths. Avoid dark colors when the goal is to lighten and brighten.
4. Enhance Your Landscape
A well-planned landscape adds personality that attracts homebuyers passing by. Keep your grass mowed and trimmed, of course. Add value with creative landscaping.
- Design an attractive garden look with a bench among colorful flower beds, trees, greenery, and shrubs.
- Bring your garden right up to your door with uniquely potted plants and hanging baskets.
- Renew your landscape with fresh mulch or ground cover.
6. Add Energy-Saving Upgrades
You can add value to your home and attract buyers with the lure of future energy savings. Solar panels can be costly but they deliver a return on your investment when you sell. A kitchen redo with Energy Star appliances adds value and personality. If these upgrades are too costly, try less expensive enticements.
- Energy saving hot water heater. washer, dryer, furnace, or ac units
- Solar landscape lighting
- LED lighting
7. Replace Your Garage Door
A new garage door adds personality and value to your home and it's a Remodel Magazine Cost/Value study Key Trend. At a $3,470 average cost, a garage door is a relatively low-budget remodel and it brings a higher return on investment than any other item on the Cost/Value list.
Wagner Realty Can Help
There's an art to adding personality and value to your home. Our real estate professionals can help. Contact Wagner Realty when you're buying or selling a home or for more information about the Florida communities we serve.
