Remodeling Choices - Your Taste or Theirs?
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It can be tough to choose the perfect approach when remodeling a home. Do you focus on the here and now, making your home fit your tastes and current needs or do you consider a few years down the line and remodel for a broader audience? It can be tempting to make a home remodel truly unique, but in doing this you run the risk of making it so different that when you go to sell it will only appeal to a limited number of people.
Wall Street Journal writer, Jeff Opdyke, recently wrote an article about this very dilemma.
“You might love the kitschy look of a 1950s bathroom, with the small, multicolored, multishaped tiles on the floor and shower walls. But when most potential buyers look at that, they either cross your house off their list or mentally mark down the price by the thousands of dollars they’ll spend on tearing it out and putting in a new bathroom.
Your style is their disaster.”
What conclusions did Jeff draw about his own homeowner dilemma? Read the whole article here.
For a look at a few more exceptionally different homes (I can’t help but wonder who the next potential buyer would be), take a gander at HGTV’s television show What’s With That House? website or these photos of weird houses around the world.
posted on October 8th, 2008 at 9:28 pm