INTERIOR DESIGN, HOMEOWNERS, HOME SELLERS, HOME IMPROVEMENT
9 Tips to Make Your Home Appear More Expensive
Interior designers have great ideas to make your home look more expensive, while real estate professionals know how to make your home more appealing to homebuyers. You can take advantage of both worlds of experience to sell your home faster and for more money.
The best interior designs reflect the beauty and character of the home’s origins, whether you have a Tudor, Cape Cod, or contemporary home. Your interior design should be cohesive, intentional, and well edited from room to room. It may take some remodeling to both the exterior and interior to get the tasteful results you want, but it’s well worth it.
To make your home look more expensive and appealing to homebuyers, consider the following:
Conceal all wiring and cables in boxes, inside walls, and in crown moldings, wainscotting, and shoe moldings.
Mix in elements like metal, ceramics, wood, and fabric to make each room’s décor more appealing.
Hang drapes from the ceiling for an elegant, elongated look.
Neutral décor in beige, white or gray is ideal, but to keep it interesting, add a lot of texture through rugs, fluffy bedding, pillows, and upholstery.
Fine oil paintings and area rugs help provide focus points as well as pops of color. But take them with you on moving day!
Update the electrical panel, increase the outlets, and upgrade switch plates.
Replace carpet with hardwood floors, or affordable engineered wood.
Arrange a vase of fresh flowers in the living area.
Use apps for picture, light fixture, rug and drape placements.
TRENDS, HOMEBUYERS, HOMEOWNERS, FINANCE
Build Equity with a “Tiny” House
If you think it’s crazy to spend half your income on a home and pay monthly utility bills in the hundreds of dollars, you should consider joining the “tiny house” movement. Whether you buy or rent a tiny home, according to thetinylife.com, it will give you much more financial freedom, independence, simplicity, and mobility than you could achieve with a typical 2,600-square-foot home.
A tiny home is generally 400 square feet or less, cutting your purchase, building, maintenance, and operating costs with a living space design to one-sixth or less of what you’d pay otherwise, not counting land purchase or rental fees. You have numerous options in lifestyles open to you. You can buy, design and build, or repurpose a vehicle or a building, such as a van, retired school bus, or a shed. You can also buy a trailer to move the home to other locations. Depending on local zoning laws, you could put a tiny home on a property that already has another home—an ideal situation for guests, aging parents, and boomerang adult children.
An added bonus is that tiny houses aren’t taxed the same as other properties for several reasons. If your tiny house is mobile, you pay vehicle taxes. If your tiny house is attached to a foundation, you’ll pay far fewer property taxes in Texas and many other areas.
Contact your Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network professional and local zoning authority to learn about tiny house options in your state.
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