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Time To Make Your Laundry Room Shine

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Laundry Room

The humble laundry room is emerging as an influential part of the home for today’s buyers and renovators. Upstaged by new kitchens and bathrooms, many buyers rarely gave a thought to the laundry room beyond its practical function – until now. New interior designs and increasingly sophisticated washing machines have put ways of doing the wash at the front and center of many buyers’ thinking when viewing a home. Revamping your laundry room and making it a center or storage and organization can be a worthwhile upgrade before you put your home on the market. The room has become a hot button for buyers.

If you have a laundry room that needs a facelift, here are eight tips for a great renovation project.

  1. Quality appliances: You can’t go wrong with installing excellent appliances. American and European brands are winners. Buyers love to see a front-loader washing machine next to a dryer.
  2. Faucet favorites: The combination of a quality faucet and basin is critical to the success of a laundry. A swivel faucet is essential. You might also want to consider one where the hose can be pulled out and retracted. If you’ve got a dog, it makes washing them a breeze.
  3. The look: Give your laundry room some style. You’ll find inspiration on the internet from sites like Pinterest and Houzz. If you’re selling your home shortly, keep the same colour scheme as the rest of your home or use neutral colors and tiles.
  4. Storage savvy: The laundry room is often the dumping ground for items that don’t belong anywhere including sports equipment that is out of season. So, focus on storage solutions to keep your space clutter-free.
  5. Closet caper:  Staying on the storage theme, you probably keep mops, brooms and vacuum cleaners in the laundry room. Consider installing a thin vertical cupboard to put them out of sight with specialised grip fittings to hold them upright.
  6. Workspace: A striking aspect of a modern laundry room is bench space. If you can supplement that with a fold-down ironing board attached to the wall, that’s even better.
  7. Stay dry: A rail above head height to dry shirts and dress on hangers is another popular inclusion because not everything can be thrown into a tumble dryer.

Add Value To Your Home With These Halloween Renovations

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Halloween

The scariest night of the year is upon us so here’s a look at the most terrifying Halloween renovations to add value to your home. These hauntingly simple changes to your home can add values so high, it could scare even the strongest willed investor! We’ve assembled this list of Halloween renovations after exhausting research into the scariest houses all over the world. If you want to scare up some value in your home, here’s what we recommend:

  1. A resident ghost – A spirit feature can add 20% or more to the value of a haunted house. The final figure is determined by the era of the ghost and the quality of the haunting. Well preserved heritage elementals are highly sought after by discerning buyers, although it can be hard to organize for them to make an appearance at showings.
  2. A haunted attic – Every ghost needs a place to chill before terrifying a home’s inhabitants and an attic is the equivalent of an other worldly “parents retreat.” Even if you do not have a ghost, savvy sellers are styling their attics with chests of old toys, clothes, and photographs.
  3. A creepy basement – Premium features include steep steps that are a threat to your life, rising damp, cobwebs, and a strange dark stain on the floor.
  4. A hidden room – Whether it is accessed via a hardback in the bookcase or a secret panel, there is nothing that excites buyers more than a hidden room. Stylings vary from ghostly nurseries to bondage rooms – as long as it’s not on the official floor plan it it will attract premium offers.
  5. Garden with pet cemetery – Forget water features, outdoor kitchens, or firepits, the hottest landscaping idea right now is a spooky pet cemetery complete with adorable tiny headstones to celebrate the afterlife of faithful friends.

This article is intended as some fun in the lead up to our favorite holiday and has absolutely no bearing on a real property value estimates (although our agents would be delighted to provide you with a comparative market analysis or to help you find your next home). Enjoy your Halloween renovations and Happy Halloween!