There are many secrets and top tips to consider when looking at increasing the saleability of your home.
Property developers are very aware of many of these, and of course the most successful property developers know most of them.
There are two aspects to this, one of which is to make your home stand out and catch the attention of anyone browsing the estate agents' windows or driving around the neighbourhood, and the other is to make the most of your home and give it that bit extra.
Although you might not think of it, door surrounds are actually a fantastic way of achieving both of these aspects of promoting and selling your home, and when you consider just how affordable fibreglass door surrounds are, it's a small price to pay for significantly increasing the potential for selling your home.
The housing market is awful at the moment, and any method of boosting the chance of your home being seen and considered has to be worth it.
Fibreglass door surrounds can be fitted in minutes, and cost very little.
They're usually custom made to order, and made to be an exact fit.
They're then brought to your home and attached to the wall around the door.
Because fibreglass sis so lightweight it doesn't need much in order to fix it in place.
Unlike stone alabasters or concrete pillars, a door surround made from fibreglass just needs a quick and simple fixing to hold it securely in place.
Although lightweight, fibreglass is very resilient and sturdy, after all, they used to make airplanes out of it.
Fibreglass was originally developed as a strong, flexible, versatile and waterproof material which could be used by both the Navy and the RAF to manufacture the hulls of boats and the bodies of planes.
Today the manufacture and sculpting of fibreglass is much more advanced, but it clearly demonstrates that being lightweight doesn't in any way mean they're fragile.
Fibreglass door surrounds are incredibly easy to maintain too.
You don't want to be adding something to your home that you're going to have to add to the maintenance list.
It doesn't need painting, varnishing or protecting.
It doesn't even gather moss, mould or mildew.
In fact all you need to do is very occasionally just give it a quick wipe with a damp cloth.
But the effect of having door surrounds is quite astonishing - more surprising in fact than you'd think.
Imagine putting a picture up on your wall without a frame.
It would look small, bare and incomplete.
Putting a picture frame around it makes the picture stand out, merit attention, look bigger and altogether more impressive and attractive.
The same is true of your home's front door when you add a door surround.
The surround acts like a frame, and makes the door stand out, grab attention, look smarter and more attractive, and crucially, it makes the door look bigger.
Why is a big door crucial? Because this is where the property developers'' secret comes in.
There's a little known psychological fact that if you have two identical homes of the same size and you give one a larger door, the eye and brain is tricked into seeing the home with the larger door as larger in general.
Putting door surrounds on your front door therefore not only makes your home stand out and look more attractive, but makes the door look bigger, and therefore psychologically makes buyers imagine the whole house is bigger.
When you're up against competition from all over the neighbourhood, that's an important edge to have, and for very little outlay.