Paint kitchen cabinets? New countertops?
mkcb1000
8 years ago
We are preparing to sell our house and need advice on what, if anything, to do for a low cost update of our kitchen. We have butcher-block countertops currently and older cabinets. We don't want to spend money on new cabinets, but is it worth it to paint them white? Should we invest in new countertops? If so, what is a good material that would also be relatively inexpensive? Granite would be nice, but also likely costly.
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