We had a specific aesthetic we were looking for and a lot of the big-box furniture stores were out of stock of almost everything due to the supply chain interruptions from COVID.

An aesthetically pleasing creative piece would be the last important factor.

Some of these may be repair items, others are Capex, but it all falls under similar work, in my eyes, i.e. paint will always be a "repair" from an accounting standpoint, but there are the turnovers where I can just touch up spots, and then every 5 years or so, I need a full interior repaint to bring the color scheme back to modern aesthetics.  

You may be ahead of your reserves for a year or two, but quickly can fall behind those your reserves, as budgeted.I take a very conservative approach, but not only budget all recurring items, like landscaping and snow removal, but also take the replacement cost of every item divided by the useful life (both physically and aesthetically) and budget that as well.  

Floors are laminate so there's always room in the future to put in hardwood but the house is clean and any updates would be more on the aesthetic side.

Selling way below tax assessment could be a good signal, but don't count on the tax man to do your due diligence for you :)Honestly I'm not even worried about value add, the property is, from an aesthetic perspective, in phenomenal shape, and anything on the internal/infrastructural side of things does certainly remain to be seen.

Painted cabinets, tend to offer a clean, smooth and sleek aesthetic.

I have a collection of 4 buildings (still negotiating 3) on a D+ street that I believe some reasonable aesthetic improvement could attract a C- crowd.

@Emil Pinlac about the backsplash -- nope, just for aesthetics. 

You would ideally want designs that are aesthetically pleasing but also have long term durability.