[onewhippedpuppy]

Maybe I'm an idiot (actually there's no maybe about it) but everything I sell is at its best when I sell it. I would absolutely fix it up, but I would fix it up to sell vs fixing it up to keep. There's a big difference between quality tasteful updates and making a place exactly what YOU want. I'm facing it now, if we stay in our house I want to add a 3rd car garage and gut/expand the kitchen. If we move within a few years I'll skip the garage and just update the kitchen with new tile, countertops, cabinet pulls, and replace the dated cooktop. That's a big difference in dollars.