For more info visit newsinfusion.com June 4, 2010 – Summer is the season for home sales and moving, especially this year as the economy starts to rebound. So whether you are thinking of putting your own home on the market or buying your first home, simple home improvements can make a huge difference for a modest budget. For sellers, you want to make changes that will help your home move, rather than become one of the many that just sits on the market. And for people moving into a new home, you want to make the new space your own! The experts call it staging and it’s the practice creating a mood or prompting an emotion in prospective homebuyers, to give them a sense of what it would feel like if they lived there or for new owners to personalize their space. Painting is the best, easiest, least expensive option to update or personalize any room. Just a new coat of paint, or the addition of a fun pattern, can make your home look bigger, brighter, cleaner, and warmer. Add some window treatments or new upholstery and it will feel like a whole new room. Research shows that well-staged homes sell approximately 32 faster and 3 to 10 more than un-staged homes. Amy Matthews, host of the DIY Network’s “Sweat Equity” offers tips to homeowners about to put their homes on the market this summer or those relocating to new homes.