When you’re preparing your home for the tedious selling process, your garage may be one space that’s overlooked. After all, it’s not technically part of your living quarters – it’s a place to park your cars or store your clutter. 

In this competitive market, we advise you to instead showcase your garage as a useable space to stand out in the market and add value to your closing. 

Here are a few ways to update or renovate to make that happen:

Make room for storage.

Create a storage space to show homeowners how they, too, can organize their “stuff.” A few options include:

  • Overhead storage, which is great if you don’t have a lot of square footage on the floor.
  • Shelves. Secure sturdy floor-to-ceiling shelving on a side wall or at the back of the garage is in high demand from buyers.
  • Pegboards on the walls are great space-savers to organize all of your things, every which way, hook by hook.
  • Cabinets. If you want to invest in a serious upgrade, install an organizational system, complete with cabinets, drawers, shelves, and more.

Upgrade your garage flooring.

Consider upgrading your flooring with an epoxy finish. It’s multi-purpose: to show off a sleek, modern look, to provide a durable functionality for your garage, and to safeguard the flooring for fewer chances of slips and falls.

Turn up your garage’s curb appeal.

Don’t forget that your garage is a critical part of your home’s curb appeal before prospective buyers even walk through the front door. It accounts for a huge amount of the front façade’s square footage! A few ideas for a quick, affordable makeover include: power washing the dirt off the door, repainting the door and trim, adding windows or door hardware, or if it’s in such disarray, replacing the door altogether.

To sit down and discuss your plans to buy or sell a home, please call Sands Realty Group at 843.839.4878.