Factory reset for Mac book pro 2011 with OSX Maverick

I have a Mac book Pro March April 2011 Model and originally it came with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as operating system. Then when OS X Lion came up I upgraded it and now I have OSX Maverick as my operating system. Now I wish to reset the laptop to Factory settings with Maverick as OS. I did Command + R and reinstalled the OS X Maverick. This only reset the OS-X however this not erase any of my apps or any of my other documents. How can I achieve that. All I wish to do it reset my laptop with factory settings but with OS X Maverick.

Restoring it to factory settings will erase Mavericks and install Snow Leopard; to do this, insert the Mac OS X install DVD, restart with the C key held down, use the Disk Utility to erase the internal drive, and install the OS.
If desired, you can restart into the recovery partition and use the Disk Utility from there instead, but this isn't an actual factory restore, and the computer can't be sold with a Mac OS X version newer than 10.6.8 on it(or 10.7.5 if you used the Lion thumbdrive to upgrade).
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