There are two areas to consider when you sell your home, that increase curb appeal, and in-house appeal. The top three remodeling projects that are worth your investment is the kitchen, the bath, and your floors. Particularly hardwood floors.
Refinishing hardwood floors
If your home is already graced with hardwood floors, refinishing them before you sell will add incredible value and in-house appeal. Potential buyers are always going to be attracted to well-maintained hardwood floors. Old hardwood floors should be refinished before you sell to add value and to increase the chances of a quick sale. However, many homes will have hardwood floors in a few rooms that don’t quite match up. Over time, the color and texture may have changed, and your floors may not have changed the same way in each room. The amount of sunlight and foot traffic will impact how the floor has aged. Refinishing your hardwood floors is one way to make all the floors look even and beautiful.
Match your wood floors throughout the home to unify each room.
Matching new and old flooring
Refinishing will make your old floors cohesive again. But what if you want to add hardwood floors to a room next to a room with existing hardwood floors? Matching the new floors to the old is imperative to give the house a complete look. To make your floors match, make sure that you install “site-finished” hardwood floors in the new room, and then refinish the old floors at the same time that you finish the new floors. That way, you are finishing all of the floors at the same time, ensuring that they all come out even.
Transition strips
Finishing and refinishing all the floors, new and old, at the same time, may allow you to avoid transition strips. Transition strips are great if there is a subtle change from floor to floor, where the strip allows the eye to accept the slight transition from one floor to another without the difference being so glaring. But, you can get professional wood flooring experts to finish and refinish your floors so that they perfectly match.
Consult with a flooring expert about matching old hardwood floors to new hardwood floors.