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IV Stories: Brook House For Sale

Your house can be one of your most valuable assets.

It's even more valuable when it is presented in its best condition.

The Brook house needed some polishing to attract a new owner.

Outside, the siding boasted various shades of faded grey stain. White trim was peeling and stained. Shutters were faded and failing. A window frame crumbled from water rot and another pane suffered a pellet hole through it. The mailbox had moss and fungus growing on its weathered sides.

A rotted wooden window frame.
Patching where wood rotted on the window saved buying new.
Two old, deteriorating wood shutters lie on the grass.
Wooden shutters are more easily replaced with plastic than rebuilt.

Inside the kitchen needed a new range hood and a fresh coat of paint. The garage needed foundation patching after water damage, a new threshold, and some vinyl brick molding. And a bathroom fan needed its wiring adjusted.

The little details, in addition to a full house painting, made a “To Do” list a potential buyer wouldn’t want to take on.

So the lady selling the house asked for my help.

It took rented scaffolding, adjusted to the bushes and hills, to get the brush and rollers putting blue stain onto the second story sides of the house. Tall combination ladders worked to reach other parts.

Rented scaffolding erected to reach high parts of the house.
When a house gets too high for a ladder, use scaffold
Combination ladders put up to paint other hard to reach areas of the house.

(Tip:) The rotted wood in the window was replaced with wood filling epoxy. The hand worked epoxy restores the shape and the strength.  Paint blends the appearance of the original window without the expense of a full window replacement.

I provided trips to White City Glass to get the pellet holed pane of glass repaired.

A mix of patching and coating materials fixed the garage foundation, both functionally and aesthetically.

And the mailbox got a new look for truly great curb appeal.

Refreshed mailbox
Removed the moss to add some paint for a fresh look

And the rest of the “To Do to Sell” list items came together, including sharing painting lessons with the seller so she would be comfortable painting in her new house.

If you are thinking of selling your house, don’t leave a list of repairs that need doing part of your offer. Instead, call Intentional Visions to make your “for sale” space match the buyer’s preferred vision.