The last time you went shopping for a home, you probably only paid attention to the closets long enough to make sure they were big enough and plentiful enough to serve your needs. After living in the same home for a while, you may have started to use different methods to organize your home, including your closet. Now that you are thinking of putting some work into your home, you wonder if closet systems are worth the cost if and when you ever decide to sell your home. The easy answer is a resounding “yes”, and some of the reasons are listed below.
To start off with, this is a buyer's market. That means you need every edge you can get when it comes time to sell your home. Even if you sell it later on when the economy has recovered a bit, you'll still find that potential buyers are impressed with the closet systems you have in place. Is your close going to sell your home for you? Possibly, but maybe not in the manner you are thinking.
When people are looking at homes, they consider just about every detail. When they look around your home, it does not just need to be clean and presentable; it should be well maintained also. While it can be hard to tell if some areas of the house were well maintained, other areas make an obvious impression. For instance, if you have water spots on your ceiling, you haven't maintained your roof or your ceiling.
When people look at your closet systems and see how well organized they are, and you go to lengths to let them know that the house did not originally come with those systems, they develop a sense of who you are and how seriously you take your responsibilities as a homeowner. Anyone can paint the walls to look nice and it doesn't take too much effort to clean and decorate your home so that it is presentable for potential buyers, but it takes a whole other level of organization to put that kind of thought into a closet design.