10 High-Impact, Low-Cost Remodeling Projects
1. Tidy Up Kitchen Cabinets.
Potential buyers can and do look inside your kitchen cabinets. Keeping your kitchen cabinets clean and organized not only gives the illusion of more space, but it also helps potential buyers imagine how they can use that space.
2. Add Or Replace Tile
Retiling inexpensively can make a room look much cleaner than it really is. Stained or dated tile can be inexpensively replaced or added to make surfaces look brighter, new, and finished.
3. Add A Breakfast Bar
When a wall separates a kitchen from a family room or dining room, consider cutting out an opening and adding a breakfast bar. This adds to a look of spaciousness and openness, not to mention the added convenience of a new surface and a place where people can sit at the adjacent kitchen bar.
4. Install Granite Tile Instead of Slab
Many people get very excited about having granite countertops. The problem is that granite countertops can cost upwards of $5,000. However, home owners can buy 12-inch granite tiles for about $300.00 and get a huge impact for the money invested.
5. Freshen Up a Dated Bathroom
For a relatively small investment, a home owner can install a new medicine cabinet for less that $150. A new clean medicine cabinet presents a clean and well kept place to organize ones things. New light fixtures, which can run up to $100, are a great way to bring a unique lighting instrument and increase the brightess of a room. The addition of a faucet for $50 and a vanity for around $250 add to the clean look of the room. Remember, clean, light, and bright is what sells.
6. Add a Room
Adding a bedroom by looking for large spaces in the home and condensing them efficiently can net a huge profit. More bedrooms appear to potential buyers as better utilized space. Beware though of creating a new room where there isn’t enough space. A dinky off room won’t be attractive.
7. Spruce Up the Basement
If a home has a cement block basement with only gray and cracks in the concrete, it looks like a dungeon. Have contractor use hydraulic cement to shore up any cracks in the walls, and then paint with waterproofing paint. It’s also sometimes to paint the basement floor which can make the place look much more open and clean. Despite a basment not being finished, a little paint can make it look less like a dungeon.
8. Refinish Cabinet Fronts
Despite a larger investment, cabinets, mainly those in the kitchen, are where many people spend their time. Having dated, stained, or dirty cabinetry fronts are a turn off for potential buyers. Depending on if you do it by yourself, and the number of cabinetry in the kitchen, the process can cost between $3,000 and $12,000. Despite the seemingly high cost, refacing of cabinetry traditionaly has a very high rate of return on the money invested. Typically a kitchen cabinetry remodel has returns ranging from 112.1 to 119.1 percent.
9. Replace Light Fixtures
Replacing old and bland light fixtures can add a lot of ambience and action to a room. Using a pendant lights over a kitchen island or peninsula adds depth and variety to a room. Putting lights in some rooms on a dimmer can also be a great wait to add ambience
10. Add Some New Technology to the Garage
For a relatively small investment, a remote touchpad entry can be very appealing. The added technogy, despite the cost, and if done right, can make it look high-end.
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