| If you're planning to show your home mainly | | | | architectural interest to a boring room and block |
| during daylight hours, think about your selling | | | | undesirable views. Stark walls will visually cool a |
| season, market conditions, and the benefits of | | | | room during summer days unless the hot sun |
| window treatments. Window treatment tips from | | | | streams in. In that case, light-filtering cool white |
| innovative Design Psychology can help you sell | | | | fabric will bring cooling shade. In cooler seasons, |
| your home for more money.Real estate market | | | | more substantial window coverings can |
| conditions influence decisions regarding window | | | | supplement a positive emotional impact with |
| treatments. Hot markets require fewer | | | | warmth, texture, and color. Fabrics will soften |
| embellishments in order to sell, whereas increased | | | | hard wall surfaces while increasing visual warmth |
| competition from many listings similar to yours | | | | on cold days.High-end Results for PenniesIn one of |
| may require extras like great-looking window | | | | our houses, we spray-painted a PVC pipe and |
| coverings to attract buyers.Remember, daytime | | | | thrift store hardware with gold leaf, covered |
| light is always best if it enters your home in from | | | | unattractive but functional existing mini-blinds with |
| the outside, because natural daylight makes | | | | lace curtains from Wal-Mart, and hung an antique |
| people happy, while the absence of natural | | | | mirror to dress up the main bedroom. The effect |
| daylight depresses people. When a room is too | | | | was inexpensive, yet stunning.Although they're |
| dark during the day, boosting the light with | | | | often overlooked by home sellers, carefully |
| specific daytime-like lighting helps maintain an aerial | | | | chosen window treatments can add impressive |
| emotional atmosphere.Security and ShelterWe feel | | | | design details to a bare, unfurnished room, and |
| exposed in rooms with no window coverings at | | | | can be the difference between selling a home and |
| night, because with interior lights on, people on the | | | | having it sit on the market.(c) Copyright 2004, |
| street can see into our private spaces, and | | | | Jeanette J. Fisher. All rights reserved.Professor |
| uncovered glass also looks like a cold, black hole | | | | Jeanette Fisher, author of Doghouse to Dollhouse |
| at night. So window coverings are important, both | | | | for Dollars, Joy to the Home, and other books |
| from the security and psychological | | | | teaches Real Estate Investing and Design |
| perspectives.Window coverings and hardware add | | | | Psychology. |