Tips on Home Selling
Home Interior Overview

If your home is currently for sale, or if you are considering listing your home anytime soon, then you probably want to know what buyers are looking for in a selling home interior. With so many homes on the market, buyers have become very, very picky. With this in mind, we offer these general tips on preparing the inside of your home. (Note: Our site has a three step, in-depth process to get a home ready for market. You can access this free information by clicking on the NavBar to the left titled "Inspect & Prepare".)

1. Buyers' expectations are high -- higher than when you bought your home. With TV and magazines touting all the latest in home decor, gadgets and amenities, buyers are expecting a TV-worthy house. That means clean, decluttered and show-ready.

We heard of one buyer who was put off because the homeowner had left toothbrushes near the sink and soap and shampoo in the shower - and that house was clean! Imagine not considering a perfectly good house because the homeowner left soap in the shower!!!!

This is the hotel mentality that is prevalent among buyers - if it doesn't look like a nice, clean, streamlined, five-star hotel room, then it isn't appealing -- regardless of the budget.

2. If you can achieve the nirvana of a (selling home) interior - the builder's model-look - then you will be miles ahead of the competition.

That unlived-in look, fresh, clean and new is what buyers want to see. This is a home with a general and nice personality, not your personality. We encourage everyone to pack away all the personal belongings and just keep a few generic decor items on display for effect. This allows buyers to focus on the space, not the clutter and your lifestyle. A bit "under-furnished", like a model home, is best for selling Home interior design should be clean, elegant, understated and uncluttered.

3. Along those same lines, if you have planned to buy new furniture for your next home, consider buying it early and put it in your for sale home. New furniture will help make the whole place look newer and fresher instead of old, used and tired-looking.

4. If you have any money to spend on your old house at all, we advise you to spend it on
1. New paint - everywhere.
2. New carpeting or professionally cleaned carpeting.
3. New appliances.
4. New surfaces (floors and countertops).
5. New fixtures.

Anything you can do to make your home fresher and newer-looking is worth the time and money.

5. Play up the selling features of your home. List the top 5 selling (home interior) features of your home (fireplace, bay window with a view, two-story great room, etc.) Make sure that buyers see and notice these valuable features. These are the things that differentiate your home from the competition and you should make them memorable.

These are just a few of the selling (home interior) tips that you'll find throughout the rest of this site. We encourage you to fully explore all the tips and techniques we've compiled for you.

Why not begin at Inspect & Prepare or return to the top of Selling Home Interior and reread our tips for helping you get your interior ready to sell? You'll be glad you did!