Easy Updates to Make Your Home Sale-Ready This Spring

Spring is just around the corner, even if the weatherman might be telling us something different today. If your home’s going on the market this spring or summer, now’s the best time to start planning. Try these easy home updates to get your home ready for the market.

Spring Clean

After a long, snowy winter, a good deep cleaning should be one of the first steps to get your home ready to sell this spring. Here’s a quick checklist to get you started:

• Shampoo & vacuum carpet
• Dust thoroughly (fans, furniture, lights, window sills, shelves, electronics, etc.)
• Mop floors
• Clean upholstered furniture
• Clean windows
• Wipe down walls
• Clean window treatments
• Put away winter bedding, decorations and accessories

Want a full checklist of items to address before you put your home on the market? Download the free Home Seller Checklist »

Change Out Your Pillows & Bedding

Trade in your flannel sheets and dark decorative pillows for cooler and brighter colored fabrics. Integrate floral patterns, vibrant colors or just neutrals into the space to lighten up the room. Bedding and pillows both play a major role in setting the atmosphere or a particular room, and switching out your harder and heavier pieces will bring the room back to life.

Add Some Green

It’s amazing what a little green can do for a room. Pick up a few potted plants, even fake ones can do the trick, and place them throughout your home especially in common places like the family room, kitchen and dining room.

Update Paint

Whether you have some areas around your home that have chipped paint or a room that you’ve been putting off to repaint, now is the best time to invest a little energy and resources into freshening up your colors. If you’re seriously considering selling, neutral colors are the best because it doesn’t distract the buyer from envisioning themselves in your home.

Clean Up the Yard

Curb appeal can make or break a home sale. While we know that there isn’t much you can do about brown grass until it starts growing back, but you can pick up broken sticks, clean up any dead plants or flower beds you may have, and do a little landscaping in the meantime.