Your Kitchen and Dining Room Can Be Worth $$$$ When Selling Your Home

Your Kitchen and Dining Room Can Be Worth $$$$ When Selling Your Home

Part 4 of Easy & Inexpensive Ways to Prepare Your Home for Sale

The prospective buyers are now walking to your kitchen and dining area. The curb appeal enticed them to park their car, the entranceway appealed to their sense of warmth and now they are thinking "This might be the one!" It will be if you keep in mind the following:

• Remove items you normally store on the counter. This will help your kitchen look more spacious. Make sure that your counter is spotless and shiny
  
  
• Your eat-in kitchen should have a table and chairs in it. Buyers like to see an eat-in kitchen but often don't have the vision to see it as such without the furniture.

• Remove window screens in the kitchen. Screens take away from allowing natural light inside.
  
  
• Remember I spoke about odours? Work towards achieving a "clean" smell.
  
  
• Thoroughly clean all your appliances and cupboards, including the inside of your oven and microwave.
  
  
• Set the dinner table to stimulate your buyers' imagination of the dinner parties they'll host. (Don't fill the wine glasses!)
  
  
• Make sure the inside of your cabinets are organized and clean and store ‘stuff' elsewhere if it does not belong in the kitchen.
  
  
• If your cabinets show wear and tear you might want to paint them, a simple trick to update the look of your cabinet doors is to replace your current knobs with new ones. It's much cheaper than getting a new kitchen, but it sure can make a difference.
  
  
• Shine your faucets and knobs and use spot removing cleaner to keep them from getting water spots.
  
  
• Remove notes, pictures and coupons that are hanging off the front of the refrigerator door.
  
  
• Take all trash out before your home is being shown. Garbage and recycling bins must be out of sight.

Again, it may seem like a lot of bother but you are trying to sell your home for top dollar and in a short period of time. Is it not worth it? You bet it is.

Next, I will cover the living room

Ty