Essential Home Improvements! Improve Your Kitchen & Bathroom

When it comes to home improvements, i think the 2 most important rooms to carry out any work are:

• The Kitchen


• The Bathroom

Why? Because these are quite often the most stressful to renovate. Imagine not being able to use your kitchen for a week at least while you have it redesigned and refitted. The thought of ripping out a kitchen fills prospective buyers with horror, and if your kitchen requires more than just the cupboard doors replacing, you might want to seriously think abut investing time and money on getting a brand new kitchen and saving future buyers the hassle. You want the best price for your home? Let the buyer feel like there is nothing to do to the house when they walk in. A lick of paint is easy, but replacing the kitchen will be a nightmare for them.

As for the bathroom, this goes without saying. If you've let our bathroom get a bit shabby over the years, you might not have considered any home improvements, simply because you think you're the only person that sees it, therefore there isn't any need to improve it. Wrong! When buyers walk into your house, they will be looking at how clean it is. With patchy walls and mould in the bathroom, you won't be impressing anyone. Just like if there is mould on the ceiling caused by damp. Now is the time to do something about it. Again, people don't want to be faced with refitting a new bathroom suite etc. If your bathroom suite looks like it just stepped out of the 1960s, then you may have lived with it so long you haven't thought anything of it, but trust me - buyers will.

Doing home improvements is all about giving the house a new lease of life and letting buyers or just general visitors see what a beautiful home you keep. In turn, you will feel better too.

Perform Regular Home Maintenance

To really make your home sparkle, make sure you do regular home maintenance. Then - when the time comes to sell - your home is looking really great and buyers will see that you have really invested time and attention into your home.
Many people neglect any sort of home maintenance. They just think it is 'pointless'. Trust me, any work you do will help in the saleability of your home.

My ex partner's parents lived in a large house in a sought after location. They had lived there for about 15 years and had done very little - if any - work to the house. The kitchen was small and had 1970s appliances. The living room was dated and the carpets were old. When they decided to sell their house, the estate agent actually told them that if they had done some regular maintenance to the house, the valuation would have been much higher. It seems crazy, but even things like one of the bedroom doors not having a door handle and just a 'hole' to open and close it with really did decrease the valuation of the house, which is a shame. So why didn't they go round and attend to these things before selling? Well, the point was that they simply couldn't be bothered. I think it had got to the stage where they thought that any sort of home maintenance didn't really matter and they were quite happy selling the house with the state it was in, despite getting a lower price than they could have had.

I think it is more important than ever to keep on top of your home and do regular maintenance checks. You need to appeal to as many buyers as possible and you cant expect a decent price for the house and yet leave it in disarray.

It is more important than ever to get the best price for your home, so make sure you do regular home maintenance.