Selling your Home? The most important Room is your kitchen

When you’re selling your home, you want to show it off to its best effect; it’s the only way to attract a buyer in what is still very much a buyers’ market. In short - you need your home to stand out from the competition.

The trouble is that after years of living in a place, you tend not to notice the dents and dings, stains and splatters and smudged fingerprints that bear testimony to domestic life. These become part of the furniture – but they can also be the factors that let your home down and, crucially, knock some vital cash from the price you’re trying to achieve. So, what do you do? If you’re selling your home, the last thing you want to do is start throwing a small fortune at it by replacing entire rooms from scratch. However, if you don’t do something, you could be losing out financially. The answer is to focus your attentions on the most important room in the home: the kitchen.

What goes on in your kitchen?

Many of us don’t think about just how important the kitchen is to home life. However, it’s the room where meals are prepared and served, where homework is done, where messy craft ideas get out of hand and where you might enjoy dinners with friends. On top of that, if you’ve got pets, it’s likely to be the room where they’re fed – and probably the room in which they shake themselves off! In addition, it also sees the most extremes of temperature, going from cold to hot and back again, in the flash of a pan or the roast of a chicken. As a result, you may find that it’s the room that also suffers the effects of condensation the most, as steaming pans are taken from the hob, kettles are boiled and tea is made.

Doors and drawers

The parts of the kitchen that cover the greatest surface area are your cupboard doors and drawers. As a result, these are also the parts that take the greatest bashing, showing up collisions, spills and even the wear and tear caused by opening and closing. Because these are the parts that cover the greatest surface area, it means that these are the parts that are going to let the side down. If you’re going to focus on one thing and want the greatest effect, then make it your kitchen doors and drawers.

A blank canvas!

There are companies that specialise in supplying and installing replacement cupboard doors and drawer fronts, which can cost significantly less in both time and money than opting to refit an entire kitchen. On top of restoring your kitchen’s original sheen, you can opt to change the colour scheme and even the materials that your kitchen doors and drawers are made from. Whether you want to appeal to a buyer through rustic charm or contemporary chic, from the moment you decide to replace the doors and drawers, your kitchen is effectively a blank canvas!

Rather than shelling out on a big, cumbersome refit or trying to restore every room, focus on the place that really is the hub of the home. Kitchens are the heart of every home, so why not refurbish yours and make sure it wows potential buyers?