exterior painting
As eyes are the windows to the soul, a great paint job tells your home’s story and expresses its personality. Paint hides flaws, highlights attributes, affects our mood, depending on its color, and changes our perception of reality. That’s the power of paint. Painting shows pride of ownership, which creates value. Painting brings a higher return on investment than almost any other staging improvement.
Invisible Secrets of Perfect Painting
As eyes are windows to the soul, the invisible creates the visible. These steps are your secret, but skip even one, and it will be obvious.
Front Doors Melt Hearts
If opportunity knocks once, the single easiest way to catch your buyer’s eye, and capture their heart, is to update your front door’s paint color.
Curb Appeal: Love at First Sight
Sweep buyers off their feet, down the sidewalk to the door to their destiny, the future new home where they will live happily ever after, with curb appeal they will remember forever.
front entrance
A home's entrance, symbolic of things hoped for, is a promise: if we go through it, and find ourselves in a better place, nothing will ever be the same. The first impact on a buyer’s psyche is made by the visual power of the entrance. An entrance creates anticipation of what is to come once inside, and evokes perceptions that influence buyers’ decisions.
Small Steps Make a Grand Entrance
Give buyers a warm welcome, by turning your home’s front entrance into its opening scene.
door Hard- ware is Like Jewelry
Door hardware is a statement piece that portrays the personality and design theme of the home.
Welcome: Say it With Wreaths
Wreaths are symbolic of the circle of life, and God’s eternal love. The wreath, as a circle, has no beginning and no end.
landscaping
Landscaping, considered an art form, creates instant value that grows. Like great art, landscaping is timeless, and its worth increases with time. Decorate the outside of your home, just as you would the inside.
Land-scaping: Value that Grows
A well-tended, organized yard filled with fully grown plants and velvety emerald grass is a reassuring indicator that the house has been well taken care of inside.
Living Rooms: Outdoors is In
Designers and Realtors concur: people want outdoor living spaces to relax and entertain in, all year long.
Plants and Flowers: Velvet Ropes
Plants and flowers are living statement pieces.
outdoor non-essentials
Designers and Realtors concur: people want outdoor living spaces to relax and entertain in, all year long. Buyers look for outdoor fireplaces, fences, pergolas, decks and creative landscaping; simple elements to provide luxury and privacy to expand living areas to the great outdoors.
Mailboxes Deliver Curb Appeal
Curb appeal doesn’t have to cost a fortune. For guaranteed curb appeal, send a message to potential buyers with a pretty or architectural mailbox. It’s one of those extra steps, little staging projects that bring big returns.
Old Glory Makes Stunning Curb Appeal
American flags symbolize our heritage of courage, hope, valor and perseverance; if this isn’t the ultimate curb appeal, I don’t know what is.
Weather-vanes: the Sky’s the Limit
Hauntingly beautiful, evocative of things that once were, weathervanes are heirlooms handed down in families from generation to generation.