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Interior Finishes

Doors, trim, hardware, lighting and paint. Individually cheap, collectively a five-figure job, and the place a flip gives itself away: renovators touch these last and skip them first.

Fit & finish: doors, trim, hardware & lighting

Individually cheap. Collectively, a five-figure job.

$5.70 to $850Monitor

Interior doors

The honest witness in a renovated home: nobody bothers to fake the doors.

$300 to $850Monitor

Trim, baseboards and millwork

Thin trim beside expensive finishes is a lie being told badly.

$5.70 to $9Monitor

Hardware: handles, hinges and the cheap tell

If a house is dated only in its hardware, it is not a dated house.

Tens of dollars perMonitor

Lighting: fixtures, pot lights and layers

One dome light per ceiling is the tell. Layers are the premium signal.

$100 to $4,000Monitor

Interior paint, walls & ceilings

The cheapest cosmetic fix, and the cheapest cover-up.

$5,000 to $9,000Monitor

Popcorn ceilings and wall texture

A four-fold cost cliff hiding inside a finding that looks like decorating.

$2 to $4 per sq ftMonitor

Finished basements: what the finish is hiding

Drywall over a foundation wall is a decision to not look.

$30,000 to $70,000Monitor
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