360renos - Home Improvement & Decor

How to make your home stand out when selling

We can help your house sell quickly and at a good price -- even in a slow market.

It takes a lot more than sparkling windows, scented candles and chocolate-chip cookies to sell a home in today's market.

Improvements should be made so that the property shows well, is consistent with the neighborhood and does not involve capital investments.

Beyond any doubt, the best investment you can make is new paint. Painting can make a room or an exterior façade look brand-new, and totally transform the look and feel of a room or the entire residence. It is always wise to be somewhat restrained when choosing colors for a home-staging paint project. Avoid choosing colors that are too individual or flashy and favor neutral colors and schemes. This does not mean painting everything white, however.

Use subtle color schemes to accentuate the home's strengths and minimize weaknesses. Dark colors, for example, tend to make a room feel smaller, while lighter colors and pastels can make a room feel bigger.

There is another benefit to painting as well: the process of preparing the interior or exterior surfaces of a home for painting automatically allows us to go over the entire area receiving paint in great detail, and this can often expose items or areas requiring repair. It seems you always discover where the caulking has let go, where the wall is dinged.

It is always preferable that we discover and deal with these items before the real estate agent (or worse, the prospective buyer) points them out to you!

Dave - 360renos




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Saturday, March 1, 2008

Remodeling Ideas for Your Child's Room


Paint a Mural

If you are especially creative and love to paint, design a mural for your child's room. This is an especially fun remodeling idea as an alternative to painting the room a solid color or using wallpaper. It can be anything your child likes, and can also be personalized. If you are not a painter, you can hire a professional and the two of you can create a design idea.


Make the Room Bigger

Often, parents will choose a smaller room in the house for their child's nursery. However, as the child grows, so do their interests, and they might want to spend more time in their room playing. As they grow older, they make like to have more time to themselves. Thus, it is important that parents make the room bigger, and this can be done in a variety of ways.


First of all, consider where the room is located in the house. If it is located at the back of the house, consider knocking down the wall and extending the room that way. If the room is in the middle of the house, consider knocking down the wall of an adjoining room and thus joining the two rooms together.


Get Your Child's Input

The most important thing about remodeling is to be sure that the child has some input as to how the room will look. After all, it is going to be his/her room, and being able to have input gives a sense of pride and accomplishment. This will, of course have to be a compromise between the parents and the child.
Dave - 360renos

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