Make Your Bathroom Sell

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• Remove Clutter
• Clean
• Paint
• Light Fixtures
• Flooring

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At all of my public talks on Preparing Your House for Selling, home sellers ask “Which are the most important rooms when selling?” My answer is always - the bathroom and the kitchen. There are other rooms that are important, but since women make 85% of the home buying decisions sellers need to pay careful attention to what we look at first! Many a restaurant has lost our business because of the condition of the bathroom – right ladies?!

As a Home Staging professional, I have always told my clients to avoid spending too much money on major renovations in the bathroom and kitchen prior to sale. These are very personal rooms and are the ones that are most often updated once the new owner has moved in. For that reason, I usually recommend that homeowners only do what is necessary to do to make the rooms look good and then save their renovation dollars for other areas.

But what to do?

Here are my simple tips to make a bathroom a huge selling feature of the home, no matter who your target market is. You can make these changes to your bathroom on your own, quickly and with a very small budget. Enjoy!

Hot Tips to get your Bathrooms to Sell Your House:

• Remove all the clutter and all of your personal items. Buyers don’t want to see your hair brush, tooth brush or your cat’s litter. (Honestly this is what I walked into one day…) Now is the time to sort through what you really need to keep, give away, sell or throw out. Recycle where you can. Counter tops should be clear with the exception of a few accessories.
• Clean until every single thing sparkles in this bathroom. If you have a shower curtain buyers will pull it back to see the condition of the tub so clean all the grout until it is white.
• One of the biggest changes and best investments is painting your walls. Choose a paint colour that will go with the colour scheme of your home which will be in a neutral colour. Light blues and/or greens are easy on the eye colours in bathrooms – think ‘spa’ and calm – warm beige is always a safe colour.
• If your lighting fixtures are old then replace them. You can buy very current brushed nickel light fixtures for very reasonable prices at Home Depot, Ikea, Canadian Tire or Rona. The old brass plates just don’t have the look home buyers want.
• Flooring does not have to be an expensive item for your bathroom update. There are many excellent products on the market. Peel and stick tiles work beautifully in small bathrooms and powder rooms. Linoleum works well in bathrooms. Choose a neutral tile not too dark and not too bright. Avoid using carpet in a bathroom.

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