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Add value to your home with a kitchen makeover
Add value to your home with a kitchen makeover
During peak times during the year such as weekends in the spring and summer months, over 40% of homeowners take on home improvement works to make their home a better place to live, and to achieve a higher property value.
Milton Keynes,
UK,
United Kingdom
(sardnews.org)
06/11/2012
During peak times during the year such as weekends in the spring and summer months, over 40% of homeowners take on home improvement works to make their home a better place to live, and to achieve a higher property value.
So what are the home improvements that most add value to your home?
HSBC recently surveyed thousands of householders across the UK, the findings showed that many of them will be spending weekends and holidays - more so from March to September - redecorating rooms, updating kitchens and bathrooms, laying new flooring or giving their outside areas a makeover.
Whilst many of these home improvement jobs add value, several of them add little or no value to the property. It simply makes the home more attractive to potential buyers, helping to achieve the property value and also making it a nicer place to live.
The best way to add value to a home is to add a loft conversion. This will increase the property value by an average of £20,876 - a 54% increase over the last three years. A room extension will add around £15,000 and a conservatory will add approximately £8,200. All of these improvements create more living space, so it will follow that the house will be worth more.
The most popular home improvements according to the survey are decorating works, which will improve the value by £3,229 which is a 62% increase since 2009.
Installing a new kitchen is the 8th most popular improvement that people make to their homes, after redecorating, minor repairs, fence repairs, repainting the front door, re carpeting, decking and a new bathroom.
A new kitchen adds £5,617 to the value of a home compared to £4,147 in 2009.
KitchenSMART offer low cost, fast, professional kitchen makeovers. David Ball from kitchenSMART says:
"At KitchenSMART we believe that if you want to add value to your home, the best way to achieve this is to make your home as attractive as possible. If you are updating your kitchen, the most cost effective way to do this is to do a kitchen makeover. This is a fraction of the cost of a complete kitchen renovation, and just as effective. This work can be carried out with minimal disruption, mess and stress and there are literally hundreds of looks and styles to choose from."
Notes to Editors
KitchenSMART offer a complete kitchen solution from a simple door change to the design and installation of a complete new kitchen. To find out why replacing kitchen doors is a low cost way to a luxury kitchen click here. The installation of your kitchen facelift focuses on replacing doors, drawers, panels, kickboards, cornices and worktops whilst retaining your existing kitchen cabinets
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