Canadian Gardening: Well water and gardening question, 1 by Erynne

Erynne wrote:
driven, those shows crack me up sometimes but I do watch them to pick out certain tips and ideas. On occasion, I feel they've made the space look worse! I do think that many potential buyers out there lack the ability to see what a home can be. I think they start adding the to-dos as they tour a home in their heads (that will have to be painted, that border will have to come down, that linoleum will have to come out, blah blah) and they walk out thinking it's too much. But geez, get past the cosmetics already eh!

We knew that in order to sell our home, we would have to reno the kitchen....no question. My current home sat on the market for 1 yr before we bought and I just know that the kitchen was the problem. So we plugged in $15k to bring it up to date, make it open concept to give the feel of more space and bingo, the house sold for $50k more than what we paid for it 2.5 yrs ago. I'd say we also spent $5k on the basement, paint throughout and landscaping combined. Considering houses don't increase much in value in my area, I think we did pretty good......people don't relish the idea of living next door to Pearson International and Go Train lines.

Now I like the idea of "quiet" pewter hardware driven, but Sandy up there is a wild one...watch out, haha.
Sandy, the counter top is cream but DH calls it beige. The backsplash is ecru with beige design in it but to me it is 1970's style. The kitchen is 23 feet long by almost 14 feet wide.

As an aside, here is what my kitchen used to look like in my current home (no wonder nobody wanted to live here):