appliances said they would have been willing to pay, on average, nearly $2,000 more for them. Potential buyers want appliances included and will pay more for them, especially if they are new, or at least in excellent condition. If you can afford it, new appliances might be the feature that sets your house apart from the home for sale across the street. If new appliances are out of your reach, offer buyers your immaculately clean, fully functioning existing ones. Updating Hardware: Take a nice, long look at your bathroom and kitchen hardware. You will likely notice it looks well used. Put yourself in a buyer’s shoes. They are looking at your old house as their potential new home. Old, worn-out fixtures are not going to speak to them the way nice, shiny, new hardware will. That does not mean you should run out to buy all new fixtures. Unless your knobs, pulls, handles, and hinges are broken, there is no real reason to replace them. Get that new look simply by thoroughly washing and repainting them. There is spray paint made specifically for this reason. The project is incredibly cheap. Here are some items of household hardware you can make look almost new with a paint overhaul: • towel bars • toilet paper holders • door handles • old light fixture The goal is to patch up your home nicely with as little cash as possible. This is a great way to do it. If you do have broken or completely worn-out hardware, you had better replace the whole set, unless you can find matching pieces. You could paint the old and new to match. You could also combine the good parts in one bathroom and replace all the hardware in the other.
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