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Selling with a knackered kitchen - should we replace it?

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Flugelpip · 16/08/2016 21:43

We want to put our house on the market in March/April having decided we want to move sooner rather than later for family reasons. Our kitchen is in dire need of being replaced. It's an ancient Magnet one with several broken cupboard doors, missing drawers and a few random gaps that I've never been able to understand (just a hole where there should be a base cupboard - I stash a storage trolley thing in it at the moment). I think any buyer would want to do a kitchen extension rather than a straight replacement as it's a smallish galley kitchen leading to a large conservatory and the obvious thing is to knock down the conservatory and replace it with an eat-in kitchen. I've always been bitterly ashamed of the kitchen but we have redone the rest of the house and have just run out of time, money and energy to do the kitchen itself. It's a great family house overlooking a park in a very popular bit of London, in the catchment area for a very over-subscribed state school. Should we put in the cheapest new kitchen we can, knowing that it will get ripped out by the new buyers? Put it on the market as is? Try to make the existing kitchen look better although God knows how?Any suggestions/thoughts?

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NarcyCow · 17/08/2016 12:00

I'm shopping for a house at the moment and would be delighted at the prospect of choosing and designing my own kitchen!

Scribblegirl · 17/08/2016 12:06

See Purple, personally I would feel nervous about buying a house with a tiny kitchen and risking being stuck with it if PP wasn't granted - whereas I'd be fine with buying a place if I knew that I could definitely extend.

We're currently renovating a ground floor flat and one condition I had was that I didn't want anything that needed planning permission to make it livable, because I didn't want to be stuck with a bad layout/cramped space if it turned out it couldn't be granted.

Good luck with the sale OP!

Lemansky · 17/08/2016 12:31

We brought our house with a very tired kitchen and it was the first thing we changed when we moved in. I'm glad we were able to do it instead of being left with something that wasn't to our taste. I'd agree and say leave it in.

Flugelpip · 17/08/2016 15:21

Thank you! I have a feeling I'll be back many times between now and putting it on the market.

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