Before you sell your house, in fact before you even list it for sale, you must repaint the interior
of the house if you have dark walls. You must get rid of the dark drapes with beautiful white
drapes like I have behind me. Why? Because you have one objective which is to make your
house appear as light and bright as you possibly can. And I say this from experience because
every single buyer who buys a home after location as the main reason for picking that home,
cites light. Light makes you money when it comes to selling a home. So everything you can
possibly to enhance the light makes great sense for your pocketbook.

After you replace your heavy drapes with nice light white drapes or even for that matter no
drapes at all, then what you should be doing is go through the house and changing all your
light bulbs from 70 watts to 100 watts. You should replace all your dark lampshades with
bright white lampshades. It might not be a personal taste but remember what you’re doing is
you’re designing a home for the next guy, not for you and the next guy wants to see a light
house even though he might come in and paint it brown again anyway. Make your house light,
that’s the key to making the most money on selling your house.