If you’re a homeowner and you’ve found a fixer, what should you improve? Or if you have a house you want to get ready for the market, what should you do? Today we’re joined by Leslie Cascino, founder and principal designer of Bonnie Wu Design, to help answer these questions for you. To give you a guideline, we’ll show you a complete before/after redesign of a sample home she just completed.
Follow along in the video above to see the full tour. For your convenience, we’ve provided timestamps so you can skip ahead to various sections:
1:39 – Swapping the living room and dining room to improve the space for resale value
2:45 – Rebuilding the fireplace for resale value and personal enjoyment
3:37 – Adding square footage to the new living room
4:11 – How the windows at the back of the house extend the living space
4:33 – Opening up the kitchen to the rest of the house and orienting it toward the backyard
5:36 – Dropping the plywood panels and installing overhead lighting
6:17 – Converting the den into a home office and guest bedroom
If you’re a homeowner and you’ve found a fixer, what should you improve? Or if you have a house you want to get ready for the market, what should you do? Today we’re joined by Leslie Cascino, founder and principal designer of Bonnie Wu Design, to help answer these questions for you. To give you a guideline, we’ll show you a complete before/after redesign of a sample home she just completed.
Follow along in the video above to see the full tour. For your convenience, we’ve provided timestamps so you can skip ahead to various sections:
1:39 – Swapping the living room and dining room to improve the space for resale value
2:45 – Rebuilding the fireplace for resale value and personal enjoyment
3:37 – Adding square footage to the new living room
4:11 – How the windows at the back of the house extend the living space
4:33 – Opening up the kitchen to the rest of the house and orienting it toward the backyard
5:36 – Dropping the plywood panels and installing overhead lighting
6:17 – Converting the den into a home office and guest bedroom
6:58 – Creating the master suite
7:54 – Wrapping things up
If you have any home design questions for Leslie, go ahead and visit her website here.
If you have any other real estate questions, don’t hesitate to give us a call or send us an email. We’d love to help you.