OP here: Thanks. One more thing: the adjacent basement room (nicer room than the laundry storage room , but less nice than the upper levels) also have flat doors. They are hinged and they look better than the doors in the storage rooms, but they are also flat and boring. (The upper floors have very nice panel doors). If I change the doors in the laundry / storage area to panel doors then the two basement rooms will have mismatched doors, one new panel, the other flat. I think I will just add a flat lauan bifold door in the washer and dryer, and then add some simple trim to all the doors in both basement rooms, somewhat like this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6qiqpicRqc

I have some leftover molding and like using my miter saw. I will just leave the doors in place. It will probably cost me $30 plus half a Sunday. And I can design the molding to match the panels in the nice doors in the upper floors.

Don't waste your time , it's an extreme sellers market. I would just make sure you flush the toilets before a showing.

If you are already going to get a new door for the washer/dryer, then go ahead and replace all so they match.

I think the house would be much more appealing if the doors matched, but it's a little thing. It just gives a buyer an overall positive feeling about the house, so if you can do it cheaply, I'd do it.

I just bought a house and the bi-folds were visibly broken on the basement closet housing the washer and dryer. I didn't care. It is a small cosmetic thing I can easily fix when I buy a new washer and dryer too. It really depends on the state of the rest of your house.

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you're trying to make the room look more habitable, I'd probably do the doors. That's really not that much money, and some people really like a turn-key house so they won't have to do this stuff. what does your realtor say?

Thanks. I didn't talk about the doors with my potential realtor. He did say that i should declutter the room quite a lot and put some furniture. He also said that I should install the door in the third closet (the one with no door now), either a bifold or even a sliding door.