Selling Houses

I love 'Sarah Beeny's Selling Houses' which gives tips on how best to show off your house for selling.  

Sarah Beeny describes the programme on her Channel 4 Scrapbook page..."I'm helping homeowners battle it out to sell their properties, by giving them the unique chance to look around each other's homes for inspiration. They then have a week and £1000 to make changes and attract a buyer." 

What I have noticed through catching up on the programme on 4oD is that kitchens are so important to buyers today and it's becoming more of a lifestyle must to have the right kitchen.  A popular demand is the dining kitchen which suits today's modern family/social life. What is a true necessity though is that buyers can see that a kitchen is well finished and they won't have to do a lot to it to bring it up to standard on moving in to a new property. 

A really common way to spruce up a kitchen without spending a fortune is to replace worktops and  perhaps cupboard doors to give the room a whole new style or colour scheme. Providing the layout of the kitchen works well, you don't need to buy a new kitchen as the existing carcases are the perfect blank canvas for these additions. 

Add to this a paint job and some quick styling and you've just given your once tired and 'lived-in' kitchen a new lease of life, for a fraction of the cost of a new one.

As Sarah always says, it may seem silly spending money on a property you're moving out of but a small budget can go a long way to increasing your house or flat's saleability.