If you have a tract home for sale it’s important to make it stand out in your potential buyers mind.
This is an example of an inexpensive kitchen island improvement that is easy to do, won’t break the bank and is sure to be memorable.
As buyers tour subdivisions they rapidly learn the floor plans and the builders standard fixtures, cheap lighting, vinyl flooring and formica countertops.
After several showings they all just run together. If your home has something different it will stand out in this sea of mediocrity. You want to, “Be Different, Get Spotted” and remembered.
Butcher Block Island Countertop
While it’s nice to have granite, you can have something useful and memorable with a butcher block countertop.
Yes, that would be expensive but just doing the island won’t be and it will achieve the same effect.
A local cabinet shop wanted close to $500 to make a butcher block island countertop but we found a perfectly sized replacement for a little over $100 at Ikea. Four screws, ten minutes and it totally changed the look of this Anna,TX tract home.
Put On Your Home Buyer’s Shoes
You have just toured 4 homes in the neighborhood with similar floor plans and kitchens with the same standard builders formica everywhere. Don’t you think you’ll remember the only one with the butcher block? If priced in the same range, which one would you like to make an offer on?
The old formica top was even cut out to fit over and around the kitchen sink and faucet. So not only is there a memorable and functional island countertop but also the ability to increase the regular counter space when needed.
Everyone that looks at this home remarks about how good the real butcher block island looks and it is easy to maintain with a quick scrape and oil rub..
Imagine a potential buyer touring the home and strategically placed on the island are tasty snacks and cold drinks for their enjoyment. The buyer will linger, sampling cheese & sipping a drink while considering what life would be like there.
Top that off with something good baking in the oven, mellow background music & you have created a lasting memory!
Upgrade The Lighting Fixtures
There are many other inexpensive things you can do to make your home for sale more memorable.
This was the replacement for the builders ugly fluorescent light which now lives in the garage replacing the single bare bulb.
It’s a stark contrast to take a buyer through a vacant white-walled cookie cutter listing, then show them the same floor plan with warm colors, upgraded fixtures, different countertops and a tastefully furnished home that they can imagine their family living in.
Making your home stand out isn’t that hard or expensive. A few simple light fixture changes, a new countertop or a warm paint color vs the builders white will make your home showing be the one that is remembered.
After buyers tour a neighborhood, they know the floorplans in their price range and are looking for a reason to choose one over another. If several look exactly the same and one is a little special, which one would you make an offer on?
Call Keith Laursen at 469-233-1234 if you are considering putting your Van Alstyne, Anna, Melissa or surrounding area home on the market. I have plenty of other suggestions that can make your home stand out. Like my Appaloosa – Be Different, Get Spotted!
