20 Tips To Prepare Your Kitchen for Resale
I read an excellent post at The Kitchen Designer over the weekend about staging your kitchen for resale. I thought you’d enjoy it. Susan’s tips are great, not only for home selling, but for entertaining as well. So many of us wind up with guests in the kitchen – whether we want them there or not. It makes sense to pay a little extra attention to clearing off the counters and making the room more inviting.
“With so many homes for sale around the country, due to the current mortgage crisis and general home value downturn we are experiencing, how can you set your home apart, particularly the kitchen, the heart of the home, to appeal to a prospective buyer?
Warning, some ideas may seem obvious, but as I peruse images of homes for sale, they bear repeating. This assumes that big ticket items in the kitchen will not be replaced. Perhaps I’ll do a post on replacing bigger ticket items in the kitchen for resale. Don’t miss the tips noted on showing your home – super easy tips with instant results!
- When showing your home, turn on all the lights in the kitchen
- Clean the windows inside and out as well as window treatments if necessary
- Declutter your counters. I’ll say it again. Declutter your counters!
- Clean and organize the interiors of your cabinets – people will look inside
- Pay particular attention to organizing a food/pantry cabinet – this can look surprisingly good if shapes and sizes are arranged well
- Clean your floors…
Read the rest of Susan’s tips here.
Do you have some tips of your own? Share them with us.
