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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 by Decor Guru Subscribe To Our Feed

First, decide that you’ll be perfectly honest with yourself. Also, take the opportunity to ask someone who is brutally honest, to help you see your home through the eyes of a potential buyer. Having done that, drive up and down your neighborhood for a block each way from your home. What stands out to you about any of the other homes in your neighborhood? Any certain paint combinations, yard decor or maybe even a white picket fence?

Now take note of your home and ask your friend to help. If there’s anything about your front that needs attention, that should be the focus of your first home improvements. It could be a simple as repairing cracks in your driveway or painting the trim around windows and doors. Maybe you need to add some colorful flowers that stand up and contrast with the color of the front of your home. If you impress that potential buyer with the first things they see when they drive up, you are about half way home to impressing them all the way.

Next, swing your front door open and take a really long look at things. That’s the next thing a buyer will see as she comes to preview your home. If you’ve painted your walls with some kind of outlandish paint color that you just love, remember that your buyer may not share your taste or enthusiasm for that color combination.