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Decorating for Your Open House - Tips and Tricks To Sell Your Oceanfront La Jolla Homes

If you have been following our advice on open house tips for your oceanfront La Jolla homes, you have already learned how to arrange the larger items in your rooms to create a better traffic flow and the illusion of more space. Once your furniture is arranged to create an open, airy feeling, you're ready for more open house ideas to put the finishing touches on your small room makeover. Follows these tips to capture the interest of oceanfront La Jolla homes buyers.

• Colors, Textures, and Patterns

Use a monochromatic color scheme. By using shades of one color throughout the room, you'll "open up" the room and make it feel larger.

To add visual interest to your monochromatic color scheme, select different textures and sheens of your color.

As with furniture selection, remember that vivid colors and busy or large-scale patterns can make your room appear to shrink. This principle applies to the wallpaper, window treatments, rugs, and fabrics used in your room.

• With Accessories, Less Is More

Eliminate clutter and personal items. In a small room, you can't afford the visual clutter of books, toys, magazines, newspapers, or other items. The less cluttered the room is, the more open and spacious it will feel to potential buyers.

Limit the number of small accessories in your room. Consider moving occasional tables, vases, candles, framed photos, and knickknacks out of the room to avoid a feeling of disorder.

• Creating a Focal Point

Identify (or create) a focal point in your room. If your living room has a fireplace, that's a natural focal point; in a dining room, the table is an obvious focal point; in a bedroom, the bed takes center stage.

If there isn't a natural focal point, or if you have competing focal points (for example, a fireplace and a picture window), create a focal point by arranging furniture so that the focus is drawn to the area of your choosing.

Select artwork that accentuates your focal point - or make a large painting your focal point. One large painting is more effective than a grouping of smaller prints when creating a focal point.

• Lighting Tricks

Open blinds and pull back curtains to let in as much natural light as possible. The more light you can let into your small room, the more spacious it will feel to potential buyers.

Keep window treatments simple. Ornate, heavy window treatments are probably the wrong scale and weight for your small room and, if they're full, they may actually take up valuable floor space.

Use mirrors strategically in small rooms to reflect light. Because they reflect both natural and artificial light, mirrors make a room brighter during both day and night. Mirrors come in all shapes and sizes but, in general, the larger the mirror, the more dramatic the effect. If you don't want to install a large wall-mounted mirror, an oversized mirror propped against a wall is often just as effective.

Consider mirrored furniture in your small room. Mirrored tabletops or cabinet doors can make a small space feel larger.

Install high-wattage light bulbs in all light fixtures. Make sure all lights are on - not just in your small room, but throughout your home - on the day of the open house.

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