Kitchen Upgrades That Help Sell Your Home
When selling your home, it is important to take every room into consideration. If you’ve lived with your old kitchen for years, the chances are it’s lost its luster. But all is not lost, even if you have a tight budget. You can jazz up your kitchen and give it a high-end appearance for a modest price. Here’s how to introduce a fast and affordable kitchen upgrade that will set your home above others on the market!
Renew essentials
Your kitchen will enjoy an instant facelift if you replace jaded essentials. Swap worn accessories like recycling bins, drainers, and washing-up bowls for a prompt improvement that will make potential buyers wonder if you’ve splashed out on an expensive overhaul.
Everything from new tea towels to matching placemats can make for a great, easy kitchen upgrade. A fresh shiny pan set, gleaming kettle, and other bright essentials will offer a welcome revamp at the fraction of the cost of a thorough refurbishment.
Change handles
One of the easiest ways to transform your old kitchen is by changing the cupboard, drawer, and door handles. They get scratched over time and accumulate ingrained grime you can’t get rid of, no matter how hard you scrub. You’ll freshen the atmosphere if you swap grubby handles for immaculate ones. Doing so will help you imagine you’ve got a brand spanking new kitchen.
Before you shop, take photos of drawers, doors, and cabinets, and remember to count and measure them before purchasing substitute handles to avoid mistakes.
Revive grouting
Grimy grouting between tiles ages your kitchen. A lot of people miss it, but grout is an important part of a kitchen upgrade. You can restore it to its former glory using a grout pen from your local DIY store. Apart from the bathroom, your kitchen is often the most humid room in the house, so select a mold-resistant or waterproof product. It’s important to choose the right shade too, so it matches any existing grouting you need not replace.
Update lights
Statement lights add charm and provide an uplift in dull areas. They also act as mood lighting if you fit a dimmer switch. A pendant light could brighten the breakfast bar or food preparation points, and a downlight can highlight key zones.
Your kitchen might benefit from cabinet under-lighting too, and new light fittings. If necessary, employ an electrician, and ensure safety with fire-regulation labeled products. A kitchen upgrade doesn’t have to be completely DIY.
Change kitchen blinds
Window blinds provide privacy and color, and you can adjust the light level with them. Dull, jaded ones, however, destroy a pleasant ambiance. Whether you prefer contemporary Venetian blinds, blackout blinds for privacy, or blinds in an on-trend color, they’ll help to give your kitchen a facelift and style injection.
Once again, take measurements to ensure an excellent fit, and note whether the product descriptions of potential purchases include required brackets.
There’s no need to overspend. You can do a great kitchen upgrade on a small budget. When you replace old essentials, handles, and accessories, and revive grouting and update lighting, it will gain a new lease of life.
Tips to Stay Sane During a Kitchen Upgrade
Renovations and upgrades can be time consuming and stressful, especially when it comes to kitchens. Following these tips will help ease the stress!
Establish a budget and stick to it
The first thing you must do with any remodel is establish a budget. Overspending is perhaps the biggest mistake homeowners make during their first makeover, and some keep making the same mistake over and over. When planning your kitchen upgrades, evaluate whether you want a low-, medium- or high-end kitchen remodel and stick to the costs you first outline for the remodel. Don’t forget to consider the neighborhood you’re in either, as a high-end remodel may not end up making sense in a low-income neighborhood or vice versa.
Keep functionality in mind
It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of a kitchen remodel, so it’s of the utmost importance that you remember the purpose of what it is you are remodeling. Sleek countertops and innovative appliances are great individually, but you must keep in mind the space that you are working with. Consider how the components will function together and whether their addition to your kitchen will get in the way of its ability to be what it is—a kitchen. An easy way to do this is to apply the 11 foot triangle rule: the distance from your stove to your sink to your refrigerator should add up to 11 feet or less. If you are having trouble trying to navigate what parts of your kitchen to update and how they will work with its functionality, speak with one of our Duke Warner brokers so they can help you settle on a plan that works.
If it works, don’t change it
Kitchen upgrades often reach the inordinate prices they do because homeowners move their appliances when they don’t need to. Relocating appliances in a kitchen often requires additional plumbing and electrical work that will send costs sky high in a matter of days. Avoid these unnecessary costs by leaving appliances in their existing locations unless it’s imperative that they be moved. Updating appliances themselves and the spaces around them can have just as large of an impact as if you were to redo the layout of your kitchen. So, in other words, don’t reinvent the wheel.
Upgrading your kitchen will help sell your home faster. Avoid the exhaustion many other homeowners feel by the end of their kitchen remodel by following these tips. By the end of it, you will be feeling better than most and maybe—just maybe—might consider remodeling again soon.
