If you were house hunting and found a house with a legal kitchen, say fitted into the garage would that make you more likely to put in an offer or not? We are putting one in and hubbby says he would pull it out before putting the house on the market when we decide to move. I say it would be a high selling point, not to everyone but quite a few. would you be interested?

I would. If not only for the legal kitchen to easily convert the garage into an efficency apt. or mother in law apt. I think it would bring value.

Apsolutely.I would sell mine right now to buy one like that.I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't.

Being a person who loves to cook and bake, it would definitely be a selling point for me!

I know I would love it, but then it would also come down to price and how up to date it was by the time you would be selling. It would definitely restrict your group of potential buyers.

Ok I have said the same thing. When we going to build they mentioned what about resale?? If I could find a house with a legal kitchen I would move next week! Gold MINE!!

As much as I would love it, and as much as most people here would love it, it's my opinion that it would probably be a drawback to the vast majority of people looking for houses. It's one of the reasons I won't be doing it do my own house until I'm rich enough not to worry about resale value

Hey we are all cake decorators, of course we would, but lets see what other non-cake decorators say, I will post on yahoo answers and see what the general population says, because I am wanting to know the same thing.

I don't bake for the public. I do bake and decorate for family and family gatherings. I would love an additional kitchen. That would give me another oven for when I am having family dinners, another refrigerator when the doors on mine are bulging. And the very best selling feature to me would be......I could bake in the garage/basement kitchen and my house could be spotless for company. Sold and not to a cake business!

even if I didn't bake, I would want a house like this because of my big family, it would make my life easier!

I would think that it wouldn't be a selling point, very few people bake so much that a second kitchen would be something they were looking for. We're all obsessed with cakes and all the things you need for the cakes and baking so our opinion doesn't really count.

It's a tough one. BUT if you're starting to think about putting one in now, it's probably best to think about how it could be easily removed and relocated, for your own sake.

If you're thinking about resale now, I'm guessing that you may already be thinking about moving in a few years?

If that's the case, IMO, I would want to be able to take all the major fittings with me when I moved anyway, guessing you would want a similar second legal kitchen in the next house. .

So if you can build it with things you can take out, it will help both with resale AND prevent you from buying things twice that would still work in another place.

Am I making sense in writing here? Like maybe free-standing counter and sink areas that aren't permanetly attached to the garage. Wall dividers instead of building in dry-wall to divide areas. Things like that.

Idont know. I would think that a kitchen in a garage may not be so bad. There is plumbing in the garage so if there was not all kitchen in the garage and some garage left for a man to tinker in, it may be a selling point. he could use it as a place to wash up or maybe even eventually make it a bathroom. my brother would jump on a garage with a sink and stuff. He almost lives hin his garage.

I would pick the brains of friends & maybe a few realtors.

I agree with most of the posts here. We all think it would be super because we are hooked on kithcens. The reality is a garage or not will effect the saleability of a home. Some buyers will not look at a house without a garage, others, less and less these days, don't care.
As far as a kitchen garage, like czyadgrl said, if you can, make it ready to move. I have people wanting a large kitchen because of a large family, but not because they are bakers or decoratersl
Do what you would like for yourself while you are there, but don't expect it to be a selling point in the future. (the same as with pools, they are as much a hinderence to a sale as a positive.)

I raised the question to my husband...he's a realtor...and his feeling is #1 it would not necessarily raise the value of your house. So, you would not get the money back that you put in. #2 you would most likely limit the number of interested parties as most people would not be able to see beyond the kitchen. For instance, a heated garage with plumbing available etc. We both agree that it would be wise to build it in such a way that you are able to take fixtures and appliances with you. Just remember to reserve them when and if you list the house!!! HTH

Cindy

thanks everyone for the input. we did build in a wall but everything is screwed in place. the fixtures i could remove and take with me. but i will certainly keep in mind what cindy has said.

thank you all very much.

I think the general population outweighs the cake decorators out there.

I am sure that a ton of people on this forum would be interested, but we are only a small population.

I would but I know plenty of people who would be turned off by it. With that sais, it wouldn't stop me from putting a professional kitchen in my house.