Get your Home Ready to List This Fall

It’s time to bid adieu to Summer and welcome Fall into your home! Not only will the scents of pumpkin, nutmeg, and apples along with the warm orange, brown, and yellow color scheme appeal to your senses, they will appeal to potential buyers touring your home. The number one reason potential buyers seal the deal is that they envision themselves living in the house. Preparing your home for fall will most likely create a welcoming, cozy feeling to prospective buyers.

Saying Goodbye to Summer

Collect any summer-specific items around your home such as large fans, brightly colored coasters, lightweight throws, and brightly colored pillows and towels. Since you will be moving soon this is a perfect time to box those seasonal items up and replace them with fall items. Eliminating your summer decorations leaves you with a blank canvas to create a sense of autumn in your home.

Welcoming Fall into Your Home

Fall is such a beautiful season. With the leaves changing colors, the weather getting cooler, and your wardrobe switching from tank tops and shorts to boots and sweaters it is the perfect time to transition your home to match the season.

Fireplace

Nothing in the world is more welcoming on a brisk fall day as the glow and crackle from a fireplace. If you have a fireplace, you have the perfect visual aesthetic. Make sure fresh wood is placed in the fireplace before the tour of your home begins. If it is chilly enough outside be sure to add the strong appeal of a lit fire. Use your fireplace as the focal point of the room. Create a Fall mantle decor using various colors of ceramic pumpkins. Various colored pressed leaves in a clear frame with autumn foliage will quickly draw attention to your fireplace. Who doesn’t want to cuddle up with a blanket and some apple cider next to the warmth of a fire? Help buyers see themselves at home here.

Candles

Smell is the strongest human sense. Smells strongly influence humans and most of them are completely unaware of it. Be sure your home smells like fall. Create a cozy atmosphere by using Fall specific candles. Bath and Body Works carries an amazing fall line with scents such as Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin, Pumpkin Spice Latte, and Vanilla Pumpkin Marshmellow. A candle on your fireplace mantle adds a nice touch. Use smaller one-wick candles in your bathroom to spread the aroma through your home.

Pillow Wraps and Displays

Pillows are a simple and inexpensive home accessory. Fall colors like brown, orange, and yellow will create a safe, comfortable sensation to potential homebuyers. Adding drapes or wall hangings with that same color scheme will bring your home decor together nicely. Creating beautiful displays with decorative pumpkins and pine cones can be used in the dining room or on the coffee table. Fresh flowers always work as a beautiful display.

Kitchen and Bath Towels

The smallest details can make the biggest impression. Swap out your brightly colored kitchen and bath towels for warm fall colors and patterns. Keep the same color scheme throughout your home. When choosing yellow, red, and orange pillows and displays continue that trend into your kitchen and bathroom.

Don’t Forget to Sprinkle Fall on the Outside of Your Home

The outside of your home is what buyers see first. In fact, for prospective homebuyers driving through your neighborhood it may be the only part of your home they see if they don’t get that warm, welcome feeling. Decorate your porch to be just as inviting and warm as the interior.

Wreaths, garlands, and gourds add instant curb appeal to your home. If you have a brightly colored door and aren’t comfortable with the traditional autumn palette of browns, oranges, and yellows use neutral-colored pumpkins and corn stalks. A simple touch like a fall colored throw on a porch rocking chair will really set your exterior off. Start making the switch from summer flowers like Hibiscus and Perennials to Longwood Blues and Red Zinnias. You want the theme of fall to begin at the front door and follow buyers throughout your home.

Remember homebuyers need to imagine driving home to your house each day. You want to create as much of a surge to the senses as possible. Everyone wants to feel cozy at home and fall is the perfect time to create that feeling.