Kitchen Refresh & Update

Kitchens sell homes, and they also sink them. The mistake sellers make is binary thinking: either live with a dated kitchen or spend heavily on a full renovation. There is a middle option, and before a sale it is almost always the right one.

What actually reads as “dated”

It is rarely the layout. It is the door profile, the handles, the benchtop edge and the lighting. Change those four things and a kitchen moves forward a decade without a single carcass being removed.

• Door and drawer fronts – the single biggest visual change
• Benchtop, especially a worn or chipped edge
• Splashback, particularly patterned tile
• Under-cabinet lighting, which transforms how the room photographs
• Handles and hinges, the cheapest meaningful upgrade there is

When we will tell you not to bother

If the layout is genuinely unworkable, if there is water damage in the carcasses, or if the kitchen is so small that buyers will extend regardless, a refresh is money you will not get back. We would rather tell you that and spend the budget on paint, floors and presentation.

Living with the works

We sequence a kitchen refresh so you keep a working sink and a working oven for as much of the period as possible, and we work to your photography date rather than to our own convenience.