Righteous Renovations! These Home Features Are Proven to Pay Off (5 0f 6)

Interior design: walk-in closets (No. 4), eat-in kitchens (No. 6), and open kitchens (No. 9)

For city dwellers who typically have to muscle aside a block of crammed clothes to find what they need and end up with a shoe box falling on their heads, a walk-in-closet is the stuff dreams are made of.

"Buyers will walk away from a home without enough closet space. They’ll say, ‘I can’t put an offer on this house, my clothes wouldn’t fit,'" says Nashville real estate agent Sheldon.

Among interior design elements, walk-in closets go off the market the quickest, at 110 days. But eat-in and open kitchens are still getting plenty of buzz, too. Eat-in kitchens last 113 days on market, while homes with open kitchens stick around for 118 days.

“Everyone is always in the kitchen, and they want to be able to keep an eye on their kids,” Lawson says. “In [an open kitchen with] a kitchen island, your kids can eat meals right there on the barstools.” You can binge "American Horror Story" while cooking, too (not recommended while eating, however).