Banty wrote:

There are also people who plan to remodel to get exactly what they want, and
don't want to pay for someone else's upgrade first.

Yep. I'm one of those. With my last house, the kitchen had been
remodeled within the last five years, but I hated everything about
it... pinky-tan oak cabinets, white appliances, a strange little range
and hood, ornate brass lighting fixtures... I spent two years in that
house thinking, "I really hate this kitchen, but it would be such a
waste to remodel when it's all practically brand new". That kitchen is
one of the reasons I was so happy when we got the opportunity to move


When DH and I were shopping for our new house, we deliberately looked
for places with older kitchens that we could upgrade/update without
feeling completely wasteful. We actually wound up finding a home that
had been recently updated by people with our same taste, so we got
really lucky there. Both of our runners-up had old kitchens with good
layouts that just needed updating (new countertops and appliances,
mostly).

I agree with most of the responses here, by the way... double prime the
attic, clean clean clean, leave the kitchen cabinets alone except for
cleaning and maybe a change of hardware, and either remove the
wallpaper or leave it alone. If you really have the time to devote to
it, sanding and painting the kitchen cabinets might help, but that's a
LOT of work and you run the risk of people like my husband coming
through and saying "ugh, I hate painted cabinets". You can't please
everybody, but you only really need to please one

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Jennifer