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make your rooms seem more spacious
Benji_Brown
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We all know how important "space" is when buyers are looking for their new home. Below are three easy techniques that you can use to make sure that your rooms look as spacious as possible.
1) If you want to make your lounge or any other reception room appear larger, position your furniture at angles. This will make the room seem larger to the naked eye because the longest straight line in any room is the diagonal line (from corner to corner). When you place your furniture at an angle, it leads the eye along the longer distance, making your room seem larger.
2) If you have a tight entrance hallway, it is a good idea to hang up a picture that suggests space. An exampe would be a picture of the ocean or a landscape which disappears into the horizon. Mirrors are also a good idea to make rooms seem larger but do not hand them opposite entrances. For those of you that believe in feng shui, it will have a negative effect.
3) If you can fit a bed into your smallest bedroom, get one in there. A lot of people ave bad judgement when it comes to space. If you are using your smallest bedroom as an office, you may get viewers that decide that you wouldn't be able to get a bed in there, when you can. If there is a bed present you are making the most of your space and potential buyers will be more attracted to your property.
I hope that this info is helpful to you. The information came from a guide which we have put together which is full of loads more hints and tips to sell help sell your home. If you want a copy for free, let me know.
1) If you want to make your lounge or any other reception room appear larger, position your furniture at angles. This will make the room seem larger to the naked eye because the longest straight line in any room is the diagonal line (from corner to corner). When you place your furniture at an angle, it leads the eye along the longer distance, making your room seem larger.
2) If you have a tight entrance hallway, it is a good idea to hang up a picture that suggests space. An exampe would be a picture of the ocean or a landscape which disappears into the horizon. Mirrors are also a good idea to make rooms seem larger but do not hand them opposite entrances. For those of you that believe in feng shui, it will have a negative effect.
3) If you can fit a bed into your smallest bedroom, get one in there. A lot of people ave bad judgement when it comes to space. If you are using your smallest bedroom as an office, you may get viewers that decide that you wouldn't be able to get a bed in there, when you can. If there is a bed present you are making the most of your space and potential buyers will be more attracted to your property.
I hope that this info is helpful to you. The information came from a guide which we have put together which is full of loads more hints and tips to sell help sell your home. If you want a copy for free, let me know.
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Putting a bed into a small room is sometimes a mistake. Unless it's a very small bed ...
"you could take the radiator off and put a wardobe in" and doors not shutting past the ends of beds usually means the room is too small for a bed.0 -
Spammer...Been away for a while.0
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thanks for tipsMortgage Start jun 2007 £88500 Outstanding Balance £51000
Overpayments 2007 Nil 2008 £1040 2009 £7853 2010 £10000 2011 aiming for £18000 (6k so far)
The Early Bird Gets the Worm, but the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese!!0 -
Running_Horse wrote: »Spammer...
How exactly is it spam?0 -
:rolleyes:...and you'll be so delighted with your "free" copy that you will check out our property selling website whilst you are at it.....yawn........the promotion of which is perhaps the main reason for the post "Benji"?Benji_Brown wrote: ».....I hope that this info is helpful to you. The information came from a guide which we have put together which is full of loads more hints and tips to sell help sell your home. If you want a copy for free, let me know.
Littlemrtinkle - you got an accidental thanks, have that one on me
Intended for Running horse above. 0 -
have one back 1-1 :-#~)Mortgage Start jun 2007 £88500 Outstanding Balance £51000
Overpayments 2007 Nil 2008 £1040 2009 £7853 2010 £10000 2011 aiming for £18000 (6k so far)
The Early Bird Gets the Worm, but the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese!!0 -
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I'm sorry but where does it say in my post that you must click my name and visit my homepage, you have done that because you chose to. How is offering advice to people spam??
If you are "delighted" with the free guide that I mention, that can only be good??
And for the record, I don't have a website selling property.0 -
Benji_Brown wrote: »And for the record, I don't have a website selling property.
No just For sale boards.A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0 -
Useful tips. I actually didn't read the last paragraph at all, so I was just as baffled about the spam comment.
Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.0
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