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Do Kitchen Appliances REALLY sell the house?

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Home Stager with Presentations Home Staging, Staging Vancouver WA

At Presentations Home Staging, we represent experience and the training we received from StagedHomes.com as Accredited Staging Professionals to provide our clients with the best professional Staging services available in Clark County and the Portland metro areas.  Our company is primarily involved with helping a Seller prepare their home for sale.  Through the course of our consultations we often hear a Real Estate professional recommend changing out kitchen appliances for new Stainless Steel ones, even though those installed fit the design of the Kitchen, are clean, functional and appear in good shape.  We know that once appliances start getting replaced, the kitchen begins to take on a new look.  This "new look" often reveals how bad the counter-tops now look, or the cabinets or fixtures (lighting or plumbing) may appear. 

Our opinion has been that new appliances often become a personalization of the owner's cooking skills and we're not always sold on the need to change out the aappliances, just because they aren't Stainless Steel.  We could see the Seller better put that money to use on carpeting, paint or other cosmetic fixes to their property.

So, what do you think?  Do Stainless Steel aappliances REALLY make the difference in the Kitchen?

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Mary and Paul Robinson
Advance Realty - Glen Burnie, MD

I think new stainless appliances certainly don't hurt! They might not sell the home but it's one less thing the buyer would have to worry about replacing in the near future. I just had a seller replace the avacodo green appliance from 1983 with all s/s and wow-what a huge difference it made. And really if they go mid grade it's cheaper than a lot of other improvements.

Jul 14, 2008 06:56 AM
Butch Reynolds
Presentations Home Staging, Staging Vancouver WA - Battle Ground, WA
Professional stager, Vancouver

Thank you!  I couldn't agree more with getting rid of the "dated" look of a kitchen. 

I think what has confused us most has been those homes that have neutral appliances (black, white or almond) and the recommendations were made to replace them with Stainless Steel (even though the "old" appliances were still in very good condition).

Butch @ Presentations Home Staging

Jul 14, 2008 08:49 AM