You’re not a private individual, or a charity. You want to make money off of this. You are a commercial concern. You’re are asking for donations of free work, and a 10K+ whole home’s worth, not just a $300 tweak, in order to enrich your pocketbook. That is first cousin to SPAM.

Flipping is about being able to DIY all of that design and labor, or the flipper loses money. That’s a tough lesson to learn, but if they don’t have the skills and talent to make this work, it’s best that they learn that hard lesson. It’s not TV fiction.

The successful real estate investors are contractor/designer partners. Ones who get their hands dirty and don’t pay for a lot of labor. Maybe find a design partner for a share in the profits, if there are any. Capitalism is far more brutal than my assessment.

But the money is made on the front end, with the cheapest price. No amount of cheap staging tricks will work to recover an over investment.

I would look a new house on the market in the area for ideas. I think a light grey or beige for all the walls. Tile in the bathrooms, but hardwood in all other rooms. White kitchen is safer.

A lot of appliances come in a few standard sizes, such as a refrigerator.

What your son might consider doing is measure for the widest refrigerator out there and the most narrow and both leave a space for the widest with a tall movable -- rather than built in -- a tall movable pantry cabinet the width of the difference, letting the buyers choose their own refrigerator -- and saving the builder(s) that cost.

With the adjacent cabinet movable beside the refrigerator, the only cabinet that the buyer might need to redo to have their choice of appliance fit would be shrinking the width of the movable cabinet

[Doing something similar with a dishwasher could work -- perhaps the adjacent movable cabinet (not built in) might be a wheeled trash can cart. A dishwasher that could be faced to blend with the base cabinet doors would make the color of appliances optional … in case the buyer wants or can only afford white. A basic Delta faucet with an arc (about $100 last spring) would work with a deep double stainless steel sink -- and they would work with either stainless or with white appliances.]

A built in stove top and/or ovens would be considerably more difficult to do something similar with them. A stainless steel stove top would work with black oven door(s) -- which could work with either stainless or white refrigerator.

Aside from a shelf over a hanging rod, bedroom closet wouldn't necessarily need shelving/cabinets and it might be better -- would be less expensive for the builder(s) -- to leave the room larger for the buyer's own furnishings than take up that space.

Would choose basic light fixtures rather than more ornate, likely more expensive, ones.

Staying consistent with metal finishes, however, can matter a great deal.

When we were buying our home, I hated seeing the flipped houses. Sorry to say but most of it was garbage. Poor workmanship, materials, design. All of it. Never saw a flipped house that I wanted. And the tendency to incorporate the latest fad/trend drives me nuts. Sophie's suggestion to hire a pro to work collaboratively is the best advice you can get here in my opinion. And without pictures, you cannot receive that much concrete advice anyway.

Here is a flipped house that I currently despise.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Troy-MI/24496550_zpid/7476_rid/42.583872,-83.202714,42.570363,-83.225588_rect/15_zm/

Aurora Tee - eek! I checked out your link. That house has every crappy cliche it can be loaded with! The kitchen floor is particularly egregious. The fridge against the wall that the HO won't be able to open gets runner-up, but the rest is also so sad.

I must be very ignorant. I like the linked flip.

OP, I am glad you are encouraging and supporting your son. Choose a palette, go with medium priced fittings/appliances, a medium wood flooring through out and then find a stager who will know what to add so it sells quickly.

Good luck to your boy. It is so exciting to see our babies grow up and conquer their world!

that linked flip used every single type of tile on the market! look at the bathroom? must be, 5 different ones and NONE of them work together! Yes, someone will walk in and think it's beautiful.

Sophie is right, you're asking advice on what to completely decorate/furnish the house with. They are flipping it and they don't know what sells in their area? contact a few of the listing agents and get their feedback on what buyers are looking for.

you don't want to deck out the house in every latest fad. Wood floors will be liked by all. wood look tile is a fad and can look cheap. Ditto barn doors and reclaimed wood walls.

They need to know their neighborhood and potential buyers. are they young family with kids? then you build the inside w/that in mind. Is it for an older, more traditional type? then you go that route.

I would look at model homes in the price range he is seeking and then finish similar to what is on the market......same flooring through out, same cabinets, same trim, same paint color, all white kitchen and bathrooms, quartz countertops, black, silver, or brass metal finishes the same throughout the house. A flip should solve problems, not create them, so trending now is open floor plan, luxurious master bath, plenty of walk in closets, and a place to put a very large TV with the sofa facing opposite it......

Many successful flippers use the same one or two menus for each place, often originally developed by a designer they pay. Same cabinets, flooring, paint, lights, landscaping, the works. Then a paid stager adds colorful sizzle. If you follow their work in MLS photos, you see the same successful formulas time after time, and the same set of colorful accents and neutral, lightweight furniture for low and mid range houses.