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Kitchen needs doing

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Extrovertsanonymous · 04/08/2020 21:07

Our kitchen cabinet has fallen off the wall. We bought our maisonette for 270k 2 years ago and reckon we have another 3 years before we sell. The kitchen is small but nice and modern but once you look underneath and round the back quite badly/ cheaply put together. We now need to decide whether to spend a fair bit getting feb whole thing re done to a fairly high standard or do we look at just replacing / fixing the one cabinet cheaply. It’s so hard to predict what future buyers might value. If we went for fine long term investment I think we would try to borrow from our mortgage providers so wouldn’t feel the burn now. Please advise how much you would spend and how much you would value a brand new kitchen when looking to buy. The flat is 1 bedroom with a garden in a quiet street.

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BarkingHat · 04/08/2020 21:14

Live with it, replace the cabinet or put shelves in instead. Save the money for the new place.

WoolyMammoth55 · 04/08/2020 21:19

Personally if it's a 'nice' kitchen then I'd just fix or replace the one cabinet and save your money for now.

I put a lovely new kitchen and bathroom into a London 1-bed flat and the EA told me we really hadn't added any value - because they were 'functional' before!

Luckily they made me happy and we got an unexpected windfall so could afford it - but I think it's not worth the hassle if what's there is already fine.

PS open shelves are a hot kitchen trend - depending on the layout, could you stick some nice open wooden shelves up instead and make it a feature?
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JoJoSM2 · 04/08/2020 21:28

You describe the kitchen as nice and modern so it has zero sense to spend £££ on replacing it.

I’d just get a decent handyman for a day so that he can sort out the little botch jobs like the screws in the wall to keep the cabinets up.

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