Light Fixtures – Time to Replace Before Selling

Posted on November 24, 2008 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

Look around your home.  Can you can find light fixtures that the builder put in for $10 to $25 each?  These are unlikely to be antiques  – just old and unattractive.  If you have them (And who doesn’t?, think about replacing them with new fixtures that are more contemporary.  A visit to a lighting store will expose you to medium to high end options.  However, you can find nice replacements at Home Depot, Walmart and other less upscale retail outlets.  I believe that updating the lighting will have a payback two or three time the value of the new fixtures.  It would be difficult to defend this but….  Every Buyer I have taken to look at houses has noticed the lighting fixtures.  If they are noticable then there must be a positive return on good fixture design.

Ugly light fixtures, part 2 @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stinkypeter/139549392/in/set-72057594117160714/

Light Fixture @   http://www.flickr.com/photos/onetreehillstudios/2341978684/

light fixture @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/195981706/

We all have these in our houses and, while we are living with them, they don’t seem to bother us.  Now look at your house through “fresh eyes” as though you were looking to buy your house.  Imagine what a difference good fixtures will make.

Happy Light Fixture Shopping. 

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