Small rooms are a common issue in older homes, but painting strategies and furniture placement can make them feel more spacious. Updates like new tiles or stone around the fireplace can make an outdated fireplace inviting. Landscaping with shrubs, flowers, and a fresh coat of paint on the front door can improve curb appeal. In the kitchen, refreshing cabinets with new handles and considering sustainable flooring updates like bamboo can stretch the budget. Staging the home professionally after redesigns can emphasize the work and help achieve the desired sale price.

1. Five Critical Redesigns for your Flip
(Extended Presentation)

2. House remodeling is more about
deciding where to spend your budget
than the details of every little DIY
project. These decisions typically rely
on your final vision; once you
transform a shabby little house, what
audience do you want your new
project to speak to?

3. Center Street Lending wants to you
be successful in your fix and flip
project. We offer some simple design
ideas to face these renovation
headaches head-on. A few quick fixes
(depends on everyone’s work
schedule how “quick”) can completely
update the character of the house and
improve your chances of investment.

4. Small Rooms

5. Claustrophobic rooms and corridors
is typically the first problem house
flippers face when flipping properties
in older neighborhoods. Sure, you can
risk breaking down the walls and
opening up entire floor space. But this
requires contractors and opening up
an array of foundational concerns.

6. A little bit of design can brighten up
small rooms through painting
strategy. Select two nice colors,
combining light and darker shades.

7. This combination will draw the eye from one
end of the room to the other and contribute
to the illusion that the space is larger. It will
feel elongated. Staging also affects potential
buyers here as long as you choose pieces of
furniture that appropriately fit the space
and allow flow of the eye and actual physical
flow when you need to pass through the
room.

8. Many people like small rooms, but
they always need to be comfortable.

9. Fireplace

10. A fireplace can only be quaint and
inviting if its functional and updated.
Getting it completely replaced is way
too expensive. If it’s really in poor
condition, a little bit of artistic flair
may be in order.

11. Paint goes a long way here, too. You
may consider investing in new tiles or
stones for a striking central feature in
the room, such as brick. Even if the
fireplace isn’t exactly functional, it
creates the sense of a “hearth” and
makes the home romantic. As long as
it’s not an eyesore.

12. Curb appeal

13. Invite your buyers into the property
by creating a calm, welcoming front
yard. Don’t get afraid to get your
hands a little dirty. Create structure
by planting simple shrubs and some
playful seasonal flowers. Depending
on your house, you may have to get
your hands a little dirty to pull up
weeds and overgrowth.

14. After fixing up the landscape,
repainting the front door adds a
whole new perspective to the
neighborhood.

15. Kitchen

16. Once buyers get past the front of the
house, they want to see the kitchen.
Flippers typically spend the majority
of their budget on kitchen rehabs. For
good reason, as this is where buyers
tend to focus their questions when
house hunting. How can you stretch
your budget here?

17. The cabinets are a central feature of
the home. So, find a new finish to
freshen the cabinets. Also, add
modern pulls and handles. How does
the floor look? If you think it’s worth
the time and money to polish, grout,
wax, or stain it back into beauty than
prioritize this work.

18. It might be worth it to consider
budget-friendly, sustainable
materials like bamboo to give the
floor a completely new look

19. Staging

20. You may have made perfect redesigns
all over the house, but if it’s not
presented well to your buyers, it’s
unlikely you’ll sell for the price you
want. Emphasize your hard work and
design updates by having the home
professionally staged. Consider this in
your rehab budget.

21. Years and years of experience won’t
even prepare some real estate
investors for some of the renovation
issues they confront in some of these
houses. From a weirdly outdated floor
plan to a tiny useless bathroom, its
important to target and change these
features instead of getting frustrated
and ignoring them.