Affordable Remodeling to Boost Home Value
According to Remodeling Magazine, here are the 2009 top home remodeling items that bring the biggest return on investment:
- Add rollout organizing trays to kitchen cabinets.
Retile or add tile to the kitchen and bathroom. - Add a breakfast bar.
- Install a granite tile kitchen countertop versus a slab.
- Replace the bathroom medicine cabinet, vanity, and install a glass shower door.
- Paint basement walls and floor, even if it is just concrete.
- Add a bedroom.
- Reface dated kitchen cabinets and replace hardware.
- Replace light fixtures in the foyer, bathroom, and kitchen.
- Replace the garage door opener with a remote touchpad entry system.
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Good advice
Great ideas, love it, I will re-blog this one!
Thanks Josh, feel free to re-blog it!
Thanks Trisha!
great tips, thank you so much for this.
Aaah. I'll be jotting down notes. I didn't pay mich attention to the return investment though. Thanks for the info!
This is awesome advice, thank you for sharing.
Per #8 - replacing outdated kitchen hardware - I work with a home improvement/plumbing fixtures co., and for any of you DIY sorts, they make a super easy to install home faucet (if *I* can install it it's got to be a cakewalk), which is also modern and sleek. www.5minutefaucet.com
However, for people who are planning to stay in their home for 5 or more years the project values are going to be different. According to the 2009 Cost vs. Value report published in the Remodeling Magazine, no home improvement project will bring 100% back if the house is sold in a year.
Obviously, if you are planning to stay put for over 5 years, you may not only recuope the money invested in remodeling, you will enjoy a custom designed finished basement, new, more efficient kitchen, beautiful master bathroom or, in other words a better quality of life along the way.
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