4. The Wrong Bathroom or Kitchen
4. The Wrong Bathroom or Kitchen (Image 4 of 9)
The Wrong Bathroom or Kitchen
What is it?
Perhaps the vendor has opted for a country-style kitchen in deepest Bermondsey or gone all clean lined and glittery in the Dorset countryside. Maybe the vendor has ripped out the bath in favour of a walk-in shower room. Or maybe you have been unlucky enough to inherit that all time design turkey - the avocado or chocolate brown bathroom suite. Nice.
Is it a Deal Breaker?
A clean, user friendly, fully equipped kitchen or bathroom is a major selling point to attract buyers. Consequently vendors serious about selling tend to work hard to match their needs. While taste is a subjective matter, if the vendor has got their research wrong and equipped the kitchen or bathroom to appeal to the wrong type of buyer it can be a major stumbling block.
What can you do about it?
A well-designed kitchen with just the wrong style of cabinet for your taste need not be a big problem. As any devotee of Selling Houses or Property Ladder will tell you, simply changing the doors and the handles on the units can utterly transform the look of a kitchen.
Even if the kitchen has been badly laid out it need not be a huge disaster. Kitchens are modular in design in that widths, depths and heights do not vary very much and can be swapped around without too much bother. Before any adjustment to the layout measure the kitchen and draw a plan (use the uncluttered ceiling as a kind of template of the floor area). Make a note of where the plugs and plumbing for washing machine etc are located, then using to scale cut outs of your units and appliances, move them around the available space until you have created your perfect work triangle and maximised your storage. Bathroom redesigns are trickier and require greater planning, although effective cosmetic changes can still created by simply changing the style of taps or painting over hideous tiles with specialist tile paint. If you are unlucky enough to have landed an avocado nightmare, for the sake of humanity get rid of it.
Average cost of a new bathroom £1,300 DIY or £3,250 by a professional
Average cost of a new fitted kitchen = £5,000
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