Australian Handyman - July 2018

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Utilise these renovation

tricks on the outside of

your home – and reap the

rewards on auction day

WORDS JOHANNA LEGGATT

N

o matter how fantastic the

inside of your home looks, if

the garden is overgrown, the

letterbox has adopted an ungainly lean,

and the fence paint is peeling of like

a bad case of sunburn, then very few

people are likely to fall in love with it.

Property experts always extol the

importance of ‘kerbside appeal’ – and

with good reason, too: very few buyers

will get out of the car for a shabby facade.

‘he exterior is absolutely critical,’

says Jo Powell, founder of Victorian

company 3 Pea’s Property Styling.

‘If you think about the process that

most people go through, it’s very much

photo-driven. hey see a house on the

market and then they do a drive-by,

often before it’s open for inspection. If

they don’t like what they see, they just

say no way and move on.’

Steve Jovcevski, property expert

at comparison site Mozo, agrees

wholeheartedly. ‘Sellers often focus on

staging the interior, which is important,

but it shouldn’t be done at the expense

of the outside,’ he says. ▶

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