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Sheri Mize Design Studios SaveEmail Make a statement with your outside entry. Finally, if you lack an inside entry, make certain that your outside entry makes such a great statement that no one even notices.

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2. Make that door (and doorbell) stand out. Many homeowners don’t come in through the front door, but prospective buyers do. “While the Realtor is fiddling with the lockbox, trying to get the door open, the buyer is standing there looking around,” says stager and interior designer Deborah Goode of A Goode Start Decorating and Home Staging in Annapolis, Maryland. Fix cracked or peeling doorways with a fresh coat of paint and be sure the bell actually rings. Estimated costs: Exterior paints start at $30 a gallon; doorbells are $10 and up.

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Dan Nelson, Designs Northwest ArchitectsSave to IdeabookEmail Photo 8. Increase curb appeal. Make your house stand out with a big change, like a bold new front door color, an arbor with roses or new porch lights. Or, for a quick spruce-up, swap out the doormat and add a few pots of flowers.

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Fivecat Studio | ArchitectureSave to IdeabookEmail Photo One of the reasons that front porches have such appeal is that they provide a protected place (remember, think chipmunk) for surveying the world.

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