The Fort Lauderdale luxury real estate market is especially competitive. When preparing your home for sale, so it stands out from the competition, you might be faced with a difficult decision: what about the kitchen? When the heart of your home is undeniably past its prime, it can be a true dilemma. We all know that kitchens can sell a home, but when the budget for a full-blown remodel doesn’t make financial sense, what are the alternatives?
Kitchen refacing is a widely overlooked solution to a dated or otherwise less-than-desirable kitchen. In many cases, the process of kitchen refacing is faster, cheaper — and sometimes every bit as effective as a full remodel. Kitchen refacing includes covering the exposed surfaces of cabinets and/or counter tops with a new fabricated surface.
For cabinets, exposed frames are covered with a thin veneer of wood or laminate, then doors and drawer fronts are replaced with a material that matches or complements the new veneer. To complete the transformation, new hinges, knobs, pulls and molding can be added.
There will be cases when refacing might not be the right solution, especially when there is a truly outdated kitchen design, or there is a flooring problem that can’t be ignored.
Pros of Kitchen Refacing
- Refacing costs about half as much as a traditional remodel.
- A refacing project takes less than a week — ideal for sellers with a short timeframe for getting their house on the market.
- It’s a green solution, since old cabinetry isn’t sent to the landfill.
If you are readying your Fort Lauderdale home for sale, contact us for a free in-home analysis. We can go over the areas of your home that will most benefit from improvement, and prepare a custom marketing strategy that will get your home sold.
