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House Comps in Your Neighborhood: How to price your home to sell for top dollar! According to Zillow, pricing your house right helps your home attract more buyers, decreases the amount of time it is on the market, and makes for a smoother selling process. When you are selling your own home, or simply trying to figure out what your home should sell for, you need to come up with recently sold homes in your area that are comparable to your home in a number of factors

Despite many options, there is an easy way to paint a stairwell or a wall with a high ceiling without expensive tools – and I’ll tell you how to do it! The ceiling in the stairwell was so high though, and I was terrified of getting on a ladder on top of the stairs. If you have staircase walls or a vaulted ceiling in a room that you want to paint, and you want the cheapest and easiest option, you need to pick up these three tools. These tools also screw onto the end of an extension pole, making it really easy to get right up to the edge of the wall.

The desk, paired with a comfortable chair and adorned with a few decor items, shows buyers the potential for that room to be not only a bedroom, but also a small office. Staging a room encourages your potential buyers to look at pretty things, such as the flowers you placed on the table, the neutral picture above the couch, or the plant by the front door. Put another way, staging a house averts a potential buyers eyes from things that may leave an unfavorable impression. But, strategically placed items can help to accent the places you want your buyer to look and draw their eyes away from where you don’t want them to look.

If you want to add some farmhouse design to your kitchen, check out how Christy, from Confessions of a Serial DIYer, added beadboard to her kitchen island. Ashley, at Make It Love It, wrote a tutorial on how to add legs to the overhang of your kitchen island. If your kitchen island has a space below it (as most cabinets do), you can add feet to the bottom to make it look like it is a free standing unit instead of a built in cabinet base. Adding molding to a kitchen island is easy to do and a great way to make your kitchen island really stand out.