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Home improvement is an extremely broad category cast over all home construction and upgrades. It can encompass anything from replacing the vinyl siding on your home to adding on a room to your home. Home improvements are great for both making you feel better about being in your own home, and increasing your curb appeal to anyone that may come in and out of your home. Even if you’re not on the market, it’s important that you keep your home looking good. It’s important to remember that it’s easier to keep something tidy and looking good than it is to start from 0 and have to clean and re-do something totally.

Wanting to DIY is Very Respectable

It’s great that more and more often people are trying to do their own work on their own homes to try to both save a bit of money, and add value to their homes. But it does come with some skepticism, as great as it is, some jobs are just too much for the average person to be able to successfully handle at home. Smaller tasks like replacing light bulbs and repainting your shutters are things you can and should do yourself. The most common issues DIY’ers run in to is just taking on and starting jobs that they know they probably can’t complete successfully. If you’re questioning if you can handle it, you need to just go ahead and call in a pro and have them do the work, they can do it much faster and efficiently than you. The other big area of concern with DIY projects just comes down to the quality of the work. That’s not to say that hard work and effort can’t yield amazing results, but it’s just not something you’ve probably done very often and there is always going to be room for errors to happen. The very last thing that you want to happen after you think you’re done with something is to have it immediately start falling apart or later notice it is NOT done correctly like you thought. Not only will you have to call someone out to un-do what you did, but they’ll have to do the job all over again! All this does is waste your time and money. So just make sure you think before you start any projects and always go the safest route for you. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to call out the pro’s, it’s literally what they do for a living.

Do Worthwhile Projects $

The goal of home improvement in the end, if you think you might sell one day, if to give you a good ROI on your money and time. Some jobs are going to give you more than others, but it’s all relative. For example, replacing the lights and bushes at the end of your driveway will do wonders for your curb appeal and will indeed increase the value of your home, but not as much as adding on a porch for example, but just because you’re putting less money into it initially. As long as you’re thoughtful and thorough, nearly anything you do around your home should be increasing its value. Experts tend to broadly divide projects between inside & outdoors. Outdoor improvements are going to be more for protecting your home itself and increasing its curb appeal. Indoor projects are going to be more quality of life things, and any of these can offer great results. Porches and bathrooms are generally some of the big money items, if they’re looking and functioning well they’re going to potentially add some serious value to your home.

It’s great to receive compliments and admire your handy work, but the real thrill comes from adding significant value to your home through smart and hard work. Outdoor renovations are going to grab people’s attention initially and are great for adding value, a strong exterior is important and draws people in. The inside of your home is where you really can get someone’s interest. A brand new bathroom, for example, is a huge and great selling point for any home! There is no magic set of things to do to have a perfect home, you just need to be smart and cautious, do what you think offers the most value and have open conversations with your contractor, they can help you decide what’s best to do for you and your home.