What to say to the appraiser

[Fishboy]

Barb makes a good point, and reminds me that this house WAS purple when I bought it. Good gawd it looked awful. The top half of the master bedroom was painted very dark purple, including the ceiling. The lower half was a lighter shade of purple. The whole house had wall-to-wall purple carpeting and the outside was a pale shade of purple. I looked past all that and recognized these were just cosmetic. I took a couple of weeks before I moved my furniture in to make the place more livable. It took three coats of paint to make the inside palatable, and was delighted to find hardwood floors under the gawd-awful purple carpeting.

Besides the cosmetic stuff, I've upgraded both bathrooms, the entire kitchen, new energy-efficient windows, replaced all the inside hollow-core doors with six-panel, installed crown molding and upgraded all the other moldings. Outside I've installed a 480sqft deck and landscaped the whole place.

I'm confident that my home will "show" better than my neighbors', but I have this nervous energy that pulls me to the next upgrade. That's why I started this thread and would still like to hear how KathyH upgraded her landscaping to account for such a higher appraisal. You still here, Kathy?

Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour