How to Decorate your House to Add Value
Home’s come in all kinds of different shapes and styles. Despite being unified in their purpose, their value changes greatly depending on certain factors; is the property near a city? Is there a housing crisis that curbs the property out of most people’s price range? Did the previous or current owners neglect to perform basic maintenance? Ultimately, it all factors in and determines the overall value of a home.
While it can be sorely tempting to keep track of it all, if you’re in this arena, it’s more productive to focus on your own assets. After all, adding value to a house is almost a skill in and of itself, especially when you have limited time and resources available to you. Consequently, here’s a small list of how to add value to your house solely through decoration.
Ornaments and Trinkets
When house hunting, most people are looking for properties that speak to them on a personal level. Heart and soul go a long way into making sure a home is viable, expressing the owner’s tastes and desires. Consequently, you can unknowingly add value to your home by simply creating a space that not only looks nice but has a distinct character.
While you don’t want to bury your house in clutter, bits of memorabilia or souvenirs from your travels are the cherries on the cake in a home’s value. For example, if you are valuing a seaside cottage, then arrangements of seashells and other beach goodies can really hone in and capitalise on the beach location. Ultimately, making sure your home blends in with the local area is key.
Carpet Choices
Carpets are an overlooked part of any household. Many buyers will select their carpet on its apparel alone, or on how the flooring feels on their feet. However, if you want to add value to your home, then you need to find a middle ground between the two. They also need to be clean, fitted properly and in appropriate rooms.
Carpets are an opportunity to add a flow through your home from room to room, maintaining a fluid consistency. Different carpets for different rooms can just be confusing and peculiar, especially when they are corresponding to various alternate personalities and preferences. Also, try to keep them out of bath and shower rooms so that wet feet don’t turn the carpet into mulch overtime. In the end, the home is a communal, unifying space, and properties will be valued better if they’re under one stylistic umbrella.
Spruce up the Walls
Sometimes, the stylistic choices may not matter so much; most house hunters have ideas about how they will personally decorate the space and have no qualms in making it happen once they’ve signed the contract. It’s not always a hurdle, but it can be so when paint work is chipped, or your walls just look flat out neglected and rejected.
The more a home is decrepit and destitute, then the more a potential buyer or inspector must use their imagination to make the home great. Consequently, wall paint that has been applied in two-three coats can lend an air of confidence, instead of abandonment. Frankly, everything should be spotless and clean at the least, so it’s important to decorate in such a way so that the home doesn’t seem difficult to wrangle in and maintain. If you can go show you care about the property, other’s will know that they have a reason to, too.
