Low Cost - But Big Impact Remodeling Tips
In today’s market, many buyers are very selective of the homes that they choose to purchase for their Dream Home or even for that very First Home. Homeowners who need to sell their homes can add a few low cost, but big impact projects to help sell their homes faster in today’s market. The areas that get the most attention are the kitchens and bathrooms, but adding light fixtures, new hardware, and new flooring can go a long way too.
Here are 10 Big- Impact, and Low Cost Tips for remodeling your homes provided by my friends and contacts at Independence Title Company. Spruce up your homes Today!
Low Cost - But Big Impact Remodeling Tips
In today’s market, many buyers are very selective of the homes that they choose to purchase for their Dream Home or even for that very First Home. Homeowners who need to sell their homes can add a few low cost, but big impact projects to help sell their homes faster in today’s market. The areas that get the most attention are the kitchens and bathrooms, but adding light fixtures, new hardware, and new flooring can go a long way too.
Here are 10 Big- Impact, and Low Cost Tips for remodeling your homes provided by my friends and contacts at Independence Title Company. Spruce up your homes Today!
1. Tidy up kitchen cabinets.
Since potential buyers do open up kitchen cabinets, it just makes good sense to tune-up your kitchen cabinets with some new paint, stain or varnish. Home owners can add roll out organizing trays so when buyers peek in, they feel like there’s lots of room for their stuff.
2. Add or replace tile
Re-tiling can be very inexpensive and really make those floors stand out more. Home owners can shop for bargains and catch sales at Habitat Home Centers for discounted and discontinued tiles. Buy low cost tiles to replace a dated back-splash, or add a new one. One can also update tiles in the bathrooms too. These Habitat Home Centers offer home improvement thrift stores to sell both new and used home improvement materials to the public. San Antonio has three locations to serve the local residents.
3. Add a breakfast bar
When a all separates a kitchen from the family room, suggest cutting out an opening to create a breakfast bar. Adding an granite top breakfast bar can be as cheap as $600 or less.
4. Install granite tile instead of a slab
Granite kitchen counter tops are nice, but they can cost you up to $5,000. Instead, home owners can install 12-inch granite tiles for about $300 in materials and get a very nice look for little money spent.
5. Freshen up a bathroom without re-tiling
For all those dated bathrooms, one can start by adding a new medicine cabinet for about $100 to $150, new light fixtures for another $100, new faucets for $50 to $75, and a new vanity for about $200 to $300. Instead of replacing the tile, one can lightly scrape and regrout all the existing tiles. But you will have to buff it out to avoid any haze look, and it will look brand new. You could also install glass shower doors. A French door adds a lot of panache and elegance for $250, and people will notice the door, and not the tile. All this can be done for less than $2000.
6. Freshen up those basements if you have one.
Those basement floors can be painted with waterproofing paint, and made to look fresh. The basement doesn’t necessarily have to be finished, but it does have to be cleaned up.
7. Add a room
Look for large spaces that can be enclosed to create a new bedroom for just the price of creating a wall. If you can find that unused space in your home, adding a new room may be very inexpensive.
8. Spruce up cabinets fronts
Suggest home owners update tired-looking kitchen cabinets. Reconditioning is the least inexpensive move for under $1,000. When the wood starts to look shabby from the use of contaminants in the air, you can take out the nicks and scratches, recondition with oil, and put new hardware on it. For a cost of about $1,500 to $4,000, owners can replace the cabinet doors and drawer fronts, and for about $4,000 to $12,000 owners can have all the cabinets refaced. By refacing, owners can change the color of the cabinets by replacing the door and having a new skin put on the boxes.
9. Replace light fixtures
Light fixtures can be replaced in the foyer, bathrooms and the kitchens with very little money. Owners can replace those track lighting in the kitchen with new recessed lights for around $500 to $700. Pendant lights can also be installed over a kitchen island or peninsula for about another $700.
10. Tech-up the garage
Replacing the garage door opener with a remote touch-pad entry system will usually run around $400 to $500, and it will make your garage look super high end.
(Information was provided by Independence Title Company and REALTOR® magazine)
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