Hi
I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
countertop.
Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
I'm planning to sell the house.
My options are (please correct me if I am wrong).
1. Replace this kitchen with new one (Ikea?). Not exactly within my
budget.
2. Repaint it. I doubt it may be done in decent manner.
3. Have it professionally refaced.

I am leaning toward #3.
Here are the questions for experts.
1. What am I looking at $$-wise? Ball park. I want nothing fancy, the
kitchen cabinets are ~14' total length. Laminate countertop.
2. Can anybody recommend cabinets-refinishing company in Boston, MA
(USA) area?
Thank you!
Michael
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I'm in UK but we had refaced and new granite tops:
see
http://www.granitetransformations.com/

for worksurfaces


On Jan 24, 8:48 pm, "Michael" wrote:
Hi
I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
countertop.
Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
I'm planning to sell the house.
My options are (please correct me if I am wrong).
1. Replace this kitchen with new one (Ikea?). Not exactly within my
budget.
2. Repaint it. I doubt it may be done in decent manner.
3. Have it professionally refaced.

I am leaning toward #3.
Here are the questions for experts.
1. What am I looking at $$-wise? Ball park. I want nothing fancy, the
kitchen cabinets are ~14' total length. Laminate countertop.
2. Can anybody recommend cabinets-refinishing company in Boston, MA
(USA) area?
Thank you!
Michael
You can reply directly to: . Make sure to remove 5423

Michael wrote:
Hi
I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
countertop.
Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
I'm planning to sell the house.
My options are (please correct me if I am wrong).
1. Replace this kitchen with new one (Ikea?). Not exactly within my
budget.
2. Repaint it. I doubt it may be done in decent manner.
3. Have it professionally refaced.

I am leaning toward #3.
Here are the questions for experts.
1. What am I looking at $$-wise? Ball park. I want nothing fancy, the
kitchen cabinets are ~14' total length. Laminate countertop.
2. Can anybody recommend cabinets-refinishing company in Boston, MA
(USA) area?
Thank you!
Michael
You can reply directly to: . Make sure to remove 5423

If you're selling the house I believe you won't see a return on this
investment. I believe kitchens, bath, and siding are close in that the
property value increases approximately the same as the renovation cost,
but usually you're better off just asking less on the price. Just my 2
cents.

Michael wrote:
Hi
I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
countertop.
Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
I'm planning to sell the house.

I'm with Zu.

Leave it as-is, ask correspondingly less for the house, and let the new
owners modify it to suit themselves.

Chris

Leave it as-is, ask correspondingly less for the house, and let the
new
owners modify it to suit themselves.

Chris

having sold a home recently this is BAD advice, most home buyers demand
homes in move in condition, only 10% will consider a home needing work.

Refacing can be expensive Often more than new low end kitchen from
Lowes. Their craft maid line is excellent and really affordable,
probably less $ than refacing!

We did this on the home we sold recently.

Incidently by nature folks here are DIY but sadly most home buyers dont
want the mess and expense and hassle of installing a new kiltchen.

home buyers tend to spend their last dime buying the most expensive
home they can afford, leaving nothing for remodeling.

kitchens and baths if done affordably can help you sell easier for more
bucks. keep things in neutral light colors thruout your home

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:04:08 GMT, Zu wrote:

If you're selling the house I believe you won't see a return on this
investment. I believe kitchens, bath, and siding are close in that the
property value increases approximately the same as the renovation cost,
but usually you're better off just asking less on the price. Just my 2
cents.

Here is a calculator that shows you are pretty much correct, although if he
doesn't have anything better to do with his time and does the work himself,
he might come out a little further ahead:
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/renov...enovation.html

The place might sell faster with a nicer looking kitchen.

call kitchen tune-up
http://www.kitchentuneup.com/


"Michael" wrote in message
ups.com...
| Hi
| I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
| countertop.
| Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
| I'm planning to sell the house.
| My options are (please correct me if I am wrong).
| 1. Replace this kitchen with new one (Ikea?). Not exactly within my
| budget.
| 2. Repaint it. I doubt it may be done in decent manner.
| 3. Have it professionally refaced.
|
| I am leaning toward #3.
| Here are the questions for experts.
| 1. What am I looking at $$-wise? Ball park. I want nothing fancy, the
| kitchen cabinets are ~14' total length. Laminate countertop.
| 2. Can anybody recommend cabinets-refinishing company in Boston, MA
| (USA) area?
| Thank you!
| Michael
| You can reply directly to: . Make sure to remove
5423
|

call kitchen tune-up
http://www.kitchentuneup.com/


"Michael" wrote in message
ups.com...
| Hi
| I have many years old formica-covered kitchen cabinets and as old
| countertop.
| Everything is 100 functional but.. aestetically challenging.
| I'm planning to sell the house.
| My options are (please correct me if I am wrong).
| 1. Replace this kitchen with new one (Ikea?). Not exactly within my
| budget.
| 2. Repaint it. I doubt it may be done in decent manner.
| 3. Have it professionally refaced.
|
| I am leaning toward #3.
| Here are the questions for experts.
| 1. What am I looking at $$-wise? Ball park. I want nothing fancy, the
| kitchen cabinets are ~14' total length. Laminate countertop.
| 2. Can anybody recommend cabinets-refinishing company in Boston, MA
| (USA) area?
| Thank you!
| Michael
| You can reply directly to: . Make sure to remove
5423
|

In article .com,
says...

Leave it as-is, ask correspondingly less for the house, and let the
new
owners modify it to suit themselves.

Chris

having sold a home recently this is BAD advice, most home buyers demand
homes in move in condition, only 10% will consider a home needing work.

Refacing can be expensive Often more than new low end kitchen from
Lowes. Their craft maid line is excellent and really affordable,
probably less $ than refacing!

We did this on the home we sold recently.

Incidently by nature folks here are DIY but sadly most home buyers dont
want the mess and expense and hassle of installing a new kiltchen.

home buyers tend to spend their last dime buying the most expensive
home they can afford, leaving nothing for remodeling.

kitchens and baths if done affordably can help you sell easier for more
bucks. keep things in neutral light colors thruout your home


Depends very much on the market. Here in the northeast, people more often buy
for the long term, and expect to be doing work on the house to suit themselves.
The Texas market, where my father used to sell real estate, had more short-term
buyers who not only wanted move-in, but neutral carpets, etc. to just plug their
furniture in. Doing that up here would be a waste. They wanna know how new the
furnace and roof is.

Furthermore, from the POV of a house *buyer*, given an evident repair, it's much
better to lower the price and do the fix yourself.

So it really depends.

In fact, I sometimes suspect that advice like this, and all the fix-to-sell
homeshows, are more geared to crank up consumption of housing goods. Cheep
stuff gets put in, then ripped out.

Not saying you're necessarily wrong in your particular market and/or with the
particular buyers you know or work with.

Banty