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Paint it brightly. You may be amazed at how much brighter a room becomes when the walls are a lighter color. Give it a try in one room and you will see the difference.
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25 Comments on Seller Tips: Bring More Natural Light into Your Charlotte Home for Sale
Love your posts Debe. . they belong on a magazine, have a productive weekend.
Another fabulous post Debe! Your clients are fortunate to have you as their agent...
Love this post and Love Natural Light! Don't you love to show a house where the light itself is a showing feature?
Thanks for sharing these excellent tips for home owners. Natural light improves the quality of life in a home.
Great tips Debe. If a seller follows your advice, their home will sell faster and for more money than they would have had otherwise.
Hi Debe - Your tips are great in that people with different budgets can try different ideas.
Hi Debe, Great ideas for bringing the light to home. It makes it more "liveable".
Natural.....and good lighting.....is a BIG plus when selling any home and a topic that a home stager will always cover with the seller. I just did a staging consult on a 4,000/custom home with NO natural light in the Master Bath.....and no way to bring it in since it is surrounded by interior walls (who designed this??). Made several suggestions for how to better show the room as it will be a large hurdle to overcome w/o natural light!!!!!
Well presented post and pleasing to the senses. We have wood blinds throughout a home that travels with the sun rise and the sun set. To maximize the temperature and light factors, those blinds require a human to regulate them accordingly if one wants optimum results and comfort...It's not just decorative, but functional
Debe - I absolutely HATE walking into homes that have all of the blinds drawn, it feels like a cave upon entering. Instead of constantly keeping my blinds and drapes closed to cut down on my electric bill I opted for tinted windows, which still brings in a ton of light, but no uv rays and cuts down on the heat coming in.
Natural light can definitely do some wonders!
Debe:
Goods information for sellers and home owners to brighten their homes up. I like Debbie's suggestions about lighten the floors. She is always working.
Great tips Debe!! Here in the Pacific NW, light is really a crucial factor in homes - our big evergreen trees are beautiful, but in a good part of the year, the sunshine is scarce enough that some homes become depressingly dark. Never a good thing if you feel like you've got to turn on all the lights in the middle of the day....
Tube skylights are especially helpful in homes built in the 1980s with low ceilings that tend to be dark. Excellent tips for Sellers in the Charlotte real estate market, Debe.
Sharon
Love these tips for bring more LIGHT into homes! I'd love to re-blog :-) I especially impressed with those solartube lights.
Debe, you are so right. Light sells homes. I'm always amazed when a seller has everything so dark when a buyer comes to visit. I'm like the man paying the electric bill. I turn everything on, open all the windows and get as much light in there as possible!
Deb, some great tips. My husband is a builder and I am always saying that more light that comes into the home is better. Does help sell it as well.
Debe,
Tubular skylights are amazing! I have a seller now that has put one in master closet, laundry room and interior bath....great blog as always!
Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments! I posted and dashed yesterday and returned today to see a feature that I totally did not expect on this post!!
Anyway, I do agree that lighting, whether or not your selling your home or not, is important to the overall feel of a home. I prefer high natural lighting as opposed to artificial and most buyers tend to look for 'sunny,' bright rooms in the family areas. Like you guys--I love the tubular skylights! And, Lori, a perfect place for them is in closets and laundry rooms!
Great tips. Mirrors do work miracles! I just rented a condo last month. It was a standard 2-bedroom similar to an apt. What made it more desirable then the apts down the road was the dining area. Instead of just being an open area that could easier be mistaken for part of the living. The owner installed a wall of mirrors which made it "airy" and gave it a grander feel. It also separated it from the living area. Paint works too and is easy! He also painted it a light cream colored which "brighten" it up and gave it that fresh look/smell!