1. Tidy up kitchen cabinets. Home owners can add rollout organizing trays so when buyers peek in, they fell like there's lots of room for their stuff.
2. Add or replace tile. By retiling very inexpensively, you make a room look way cleaner than it was.
3. Add a breakfast bar. When a wall seperates a kitchen from a family room, suggest cutting out an opening to create a breakfast bar.
4. Install granite tile instead of a slab. Everybody is hot for granite kitchen counter-tops, but that can be a $5,000 upgrade. Instead, home owners can put in 12-inch granite tiles for about $200 in materials and get very high impact for little money.
5. Freshen up a bathroom without retiling. I recommend putting in a new medicine cabinet for $100 to $150, light fixtures for about $100, a faucet for $50 to $75, and a vanity for $200 to $300. Also, install glass shower doors. A french door adds a lot of panache and elegance for $250.
6. Freshen up the basement. Have a contractor fill in cracks with hydraulic cement and then paint with waterproofing paint. Then add a top coat to add color. They can also paint the basement floor with a good floor paint, which spiffs it up.
7. Add a room. Look for large spaces that can be enclosed to create a new bedroom for just the price of creating a wall.
8. Spruce up cabinet fronts. Update tired-looking kitchen cabinets. Reconditinoing is the least expensive. For $1,500 to $4,000, owners can replace the cabinet doors and drawer fronts, and for $4,000 to $12,000, they can have all the cabinets refaced.
9. Replace light fixtures. In a foyer and in bathrooms and kitchens replacing overhead light fixtures provides a lot of pop for a little money.
10. Tech-up the garage. Replace the garage door opener with a remote touch-pad entry system.
Want to check out an electric copy of the chart in the Cost Vs. Value Report that appeared in the January issue of REALTOR Magazine.The chart was featured in "Help Clients Stretch Their Remodeling Dollars". REALTOR Magazine helped collect the data, Remodeling magazine owns the copyright. To access the full report online, visit www.costvsvalue.com. You can view data for each project and download a city report.
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