Lowers the home value

What kind of improvements should one never do to the house because it brings the value of house down?

Don’t convert garages to living space. Potential buyers will be calculating how much to revert it back a garage. They will then start thinking about how to replace the lost space. Then their thoughts will simply decide it is too expensive to do anything.

Jazzy wrote:

Don’t convert garages to living space. Potential buyers will be calculating how much to revert it back a garage. They will then start thinking about how to replace the lost space. Then their thoughts will simply decide it is too expensive to do anything.

When I first saw the thread, I couldn't think of anything, but that's a really good point to bring up. Unless an entirely new garage is built along with the conversion of the old garage into house space, I wouldn't want to give up a garage. I enjoy parking inside and being able to take my groceries inside without having to be subjected to the elements outside. At my previous house, I slipped on the ice one too many times and it was awful.

Paint the walls brown. We had that in the 70s. When my parents sold the house we had to paint it all white.