5 Ways Custom Closets Raise The Market Value of a Home

Even if you aren’t planning to sell your home right away, it’s important to keep its market value up. Custom closets can help you get the maximum amount of value out of your current home whenever you want to relocate, upgrade, or downsize. 

The benefits include: allowing buyers to see how they’ll fit into the home, making the home more functional and move-in ready, and providing a strong ROI.

Do you want to know how custom closets can do all of those things and more? Stay tuned!

Let Potential Homeowners Envision Their Lives With Custom Closets

People who are home-shopping want to be able to imagine their own possessions and styles in a space. Southern Living explains this is why realtors recommend neutral colors when showing a home – it’s easier for potential buyers to imagine their own decorating tastes against a neutral background.

Customizing a closet serves a similar purpose. It allows buyers to picture their own items in the space provided. When they’re looking at a small closet with a rod and nothing else, they may picture an overcrowded space with things that are disorganized and falling out. But when they see a custom closet with plenty of room and designated square footage, they can imagine their own items fitting neatly and being accessible.

Creates More Functional Space

It’s also important to note that homes with custom closets simply work better. A home serves a variety of functions, and the more functional it is, the more it will seem suited to potential buyers. What’s the function of a closet?

It stores items, but it's also a place you go to access those items – clothing, linens, towels, raincoats, tools, toys – you name it, they have all sorts of uses. But most people have had the experience of opening a closet where the clothes are packed too tightly together and there isn’t room to sort through them or one where items are stored haphazardly or don't fit.

A custom closet is designed to function more efficiently than a regular closet. It allows you to see all the things stored inside. You can open it without bracing yourself for an avalanche, and put things away in a designated place, not just shove them in wherever they fit.

More functional storage means a more functional house because not only are the closets themselves more user-friendly spaces but there also isn’t the problem of things that should be stored elsewhere.

Make Your Home Move-In Ready on Day 1

Even people who want to relocate don’t like the tedious and time-consuming processes of moving– all the packing, transporting, unpacking, and putting away everything they own. It's a lot of work!

Custom closets make the last part of the move, putting away items, much faster and easier than it would be otherwise. The new occupants won’t have to add storage or organizational tools, nor will they need to puzzle out how to fit things into the closets.

With more room and designated spaces for different types of items, it’s easy to just put things where they go without having to think too much about it. Your home won't require a lot of setting up, it’ll be ready to be lived in on move-in day.

A Strong ROI

When you’re considering doing something to your home to raise its resale value, you must consider whether the expense and effort you put into the project will really be worth it. If a particular change costs a lot and only raises the value by a little, is it worth it? The home may have more market value, but you’re not necessarily seeing the benefits of that value.

Angi.com reports that custom closets have an ROI of 50% to 60%. And there are custom closets to fit all kinds of different budgets, so you can choose one that makes the most sense for your home and your financial situation.

Updates The Number of Bedrooms

Many homes have a room that’s not quite a bedroom. Sometimes they’re listed as bonus rooms. Homeowners may call them dens, sunrooms, or another name. The extra space can be nice for many different things, but with the inclusion of a custom closet, it can be upgraded to a bedroom and listed as one.

A four-bedroom home may be more valuable than a three-bedroom home with a bonus room. That’s especially true for buyers who have big families! Even if you don’t use that space as a bedroom, adding a custom closet for extra storage will increase its value. 

Final Thoughts

Customizing your closets is a great way to improve your home while you live there, but the benefits go beyond that. Whenever you decide to sell, custom closets enhance your home’s desirability and increase its value for new buyers. 

Sources

• https://www.angi.com/articles/how-much-do-custom-closets-cost.htm
• https://www.southernliving.com/home/colors/paint-colors-that-increase-home-value