On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:09:33 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>Janet Baraclough wrote:
>
>>> I'll second that. We're building in Texas and if I put in Formica, I'd
>>> never be able to re-sell.
>>
>> That doesn't say much for the rest of the house.
>>
>> I think you will find, that "most homes built today" outside Texas,
>> do not slavishly ape Texas (hard as that may be, for Texans to imagine).
>>
>> Janet.
>
>Perhaps not but I can't think of any decorating or home repair show that
>goes out of their way to ever use Formica anymore? They all talk about
>ripping out substandard styled kitchen counters and getting granite or
>whatever.....? Supposedly almost every penny put into a good kitchen
>makeover will come back to you, perhaps 1.5 to 2 times so even.

That depends on the neighborhood, what the house looks like to begin
with, and the current market. The kitchen in the house we sold 6
months ago had a rather outdated kitchen. We asked several different
realtors what we should do with the kitchen. They all said "nothing,
you'll lose every penny you put in it."

Lou