Tip #25 Flower Power

Fresh flowers in your house will give it a healthy, clean, and bright look, without spending a fortune.

If you have the money, you can add a professional arrangement full of exotic flowers to a room in your home.

However, if you’d rather splurge on other things, then you can always go for a cheaper flower. The important thing is that they’re fresh, healthy, and in warm colors.

Affordable fresh cut flowers include:

• Carnations

• Daisies

• Pompons

• Irises

• Freesia

• Asters

Consider having the colors not only match the room, but the season.

For example, springtime is a great opportunity to use pinks and purples, summer is fantastic for reds and bright yellows, and fall is great for oranges and pale yellows. In the wintertime, anything bright and happy is a good idea.

If you have flowers in your yard that can be cut, it’s pleasant to have some in the house. This not only ties the inside and the outside, but it gives your home an authentic happy and fresh feeling.

Just be certain that you don’t cut so many that the outside gardens have bare patches!

Tip #26 Open Up the Windows

If it’s mild enough outside – that is, if it’s cool enough in warm weather, or warm enough in cool weather – you might think about opening up the windows.

This will bring the fresh air in, and will be wonderful for making the air breathable, and getting rid of any “home” smells that you may not even notice, but may be obvious to the prospective buyer.

Be careful about the temperatures in which you open the windows. If you make it too hot or too cold inside, then the prospective viewers will feel uncomfortable, and therefore won’t attach themselves quite as well.

Moreover, a too-cold house will take away from the welcoming feeling you’re trying to instill in the home, and a too-warm house will make the house feel smaller than it is, and will make the prospective buyers want to leave faster. Naturally, that’s not what you’re going for.

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