Sugar Land Open House Kitchen Preparation Checklist
What’s the one room that everyone wants to see when they walk into a Sugar Land open house? The kitchen. It is the room that people are naturally drawn to and where most people gather during get togethers.
Therefore, if you are getting ready to sell your Sugar Land house, you need your kitchen to shine. Follow this checklist to get your kitchen showing ready:
Watch what you cook
If you have a Sugar Land open house or showing scheduled for the next day, the last thing you want to do is cook a meal that leaves an unpleasant odor from the night before. Think something like fish or sauerkraut. It’s a lot easier to make this the night you go out to eat, or order takeout and then throw the remains away outside immediately.
Shine your stainless steel
Many people love stainless steel appliances, but they can be incredibly hard to keep clean. Every fingerprint or drip of water shows. Take the time to make them shine.
Take a look at your stovetop
The drip pans can get very dirty and they are easy to overlook on a daily basis. When you are getting ready to sell your house, you need to have it all shining, including the drip pans. If you don’t want to take the time to scrub them clean, then simply purchase new ones. They are inexpensive and only take a minute to switch out.
Clean the lights
The light fixtures in kitchens are often neglected. Many times there are bugs that get into the chandelier globes, and you don’t want to leave them there for your showing.
Light fixtures in the kitchen can be harder to clean than lights in other rooms of the house. The grease that gets in the air when cooking sticks to the globes and then causes the dust to stick on to the lights.
Taking the time to clean the lights can drastically change the amount of light that you are getting in your kitchen.
Clear the counters
It’s convenient to keep your toaster, blender, and sugar bowl out on the countertop. Buyers want to see a lot of counter space, so it’s important to hide your items away neatly in a cabinet and show off the counter space that you have.
Clean the your cabinets
This includes the inside and the outside. The outside of the cabinets are easy to neglect throughout the year, but with a little polish, they can really shine. Plus, if you have children, your lower cabinets will most likely have some gunk from sticky fingers that will need to be cleaned off.
Buy new knobs
Switching out the hardware is an easy and affordable way to give your kitchen an updated look.
Clean the light switches
This is a small item in your kitchen, but it’s something that is touched a lot by many different people. Light switches in the average house are dirty. Spend a few minutes cleaning light switches, and don’t forget to clean the door knobs too.
If you want to get your Sugar Land kitchen showing ready, start at the top and work your way down. Clean everything in the room and put away anything that you do not need out. Then set out a beautiful bouquet of flowers to top it all off.