If you are wondering which renovations will help to increase your home’s resale value, think kitchen. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen so if your kitchen looks old and dated, the rest of the house will, as well.
A well-designed, modern kitchen means the new buyer will see a kitchen that looks great and will function well. If you remodel your kitchen to increase your resale value, it means the potential buyer won’t have to worry about it.
How To Increase Your Resale Value with a Remodeled Kitchen
You don’t need to rip out your entire kitchen to get the desired effect. There are a few ways you can make your kitchen look completely new and modern without going broke.
Lighting
Poor lighting can make a nice kitchen look terrible. If your kitchen is still functioning with a single overhead light, it’s definitely time to upgrade. Lighting in several areas will work well to highlight different parts of the kitchen.
You want a great lighting fixture for your main light. This will be the general lighting that illuminates the entire kitchen. You can have it over the dining area, to allow plenty of light while eating, reading, or doing homework.
Recessed or under cabinet lights are great to set a mood, work as task lighting, and can add depth to your kitchen. They help illuminate your counters but are not too bright to distract.
Dimmers and different shapes or colors of lights also work very well. They can be used to highlight certain areas of the kitchen at different times.
Cabinets
Your kitchen cabinets are also a great way to increase the resale value of your home. They can also cost a lot. But you don’t have to completely rip them out to make them look a lot better and newer.
You can replace the doors and fronts of your cabinets or paint them and give them some new hardware. This can help to brighten up your entire kitchen and make everything around it look better, as well.
Countertops
Our kitchen countertops can take a beating over the years. Depending on what material they are made from, they can become chipped, cracked, torn, faded, used as a cutting board, burnt, and stained.
There are plenty of materials available for countertops that look much more luxurious without the high price tag. Many of these materials are extremely durable and that will help to increase your resale value.
Appliances
Tired old appliances can really make your kitchen look the same way. It’s well worth the investment to get matching appliances for your kitchen to help increase the resale value.
Getting modern, smart appliances that will be sure to wow the potential buyers. Refrigerators you can see into, programmable ovens, and loads of safety features are very desirable.
Floors
Our floors really get a lot of action, and they can start to show it. Old linoleum can tear and get faded, stained, and simply worn through. Potential buyers might see the floors and nothing else.
Luckily, you can find synthetic materials that are extremely durable, not too expensive, and come in a wide variety of colors and patterns. A new floor can make the entire kitchen look bigger and fresh.
Upping Your Resale Value
If you are stuck for ideas, why not give us a call here at Karin Ross Design? We can work with your budget to help you remodel your kitchen and make sure you increase your resale value when you are ready to sell your home.
