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Home Improvement

Home Improvement

A Guide, Home Remodeling Ideas

Home Improvement

Home Improvement, Palm Springs Real Estate

Palm Springs real estate offers any homeowner, immediate details to the home’s surroundings; made by the San Jacinto Mountains. It goes without saying; Palm Springs is the city where nature and culture exists in perfect harmony. With the mountains natural beauty adding a view that can be enjoyed in the privacy of your backyard, have you considered how a home improvement project can help you bring a little of that outdoor beauty inside?

Home improvement is a good thing to do when you consider the value of your home. An old house can be transformed into a mid-century modern masterpiece, or an extra room can be transformed into a media room meant for watching movies or listening to music. The sky is the limit when it comes to what you can do with a home improvement project. A well-done home improvement project can help you not only add value to your home; it can help you make your home a place where comfort meets style.

So whether you are looking to embark on a whole house makeover, or simply want to fix a faucet, knowing which features add value to a home’s worth is a great place to get started!

Home Value

Home Remodeling

Breaking the budget is everyone’s biggest fear, when it comes to home remodeling. Home remodeling does not have to be expensive. You can improve your home with a remodeling project or two. The best possible way for you to ensure you do not go over budget, is by focusing on the important features first and then add to that once your are done.

There are many ways for you to add value to your home, while also improving your quality of life. By considering the right types of upgrades and renovations, you can enjoy the benefits without the headache of worrying about your budget. Remember, you will fare well by starting slowly with upgrades that are intentional, and not impulsive.

With this in mind offer some insight on maximizing the value of your home…

A Guide to, Home Remodeling

If you seek to increase the value of your home as well as your quality of life, use this guide a point of reference to get started:

  1. The Kitchen:
    1. Replace appliance, stainless is a good value adder
    2. Resurface or add new cabinet
    3. Replace or add new fixtures
    4. Paint
    5. Adding granite counter tops is a good value adder
    6. Slate floors or exposed floors
  2. Adding Additional Bedroom(s):
    1. 3-4 bedroom homes have more value
  3. Media Rooms:
    1. Even if you do not currently have a room that is dedicated to things such as listening to music or watching movies
      1. It is important to add wire while the walls are exposed for adding surround sound and any other extras like lighting in the future
  4. The Bathroom:
    1. Extra master bathrooms = extra value
    2. Modernize showers
    3. Updating fixtures
    4. New flooring or even just a simple re-grout can help improve value
    5. Re-doing the bathrooms to give it a modern look and feel will increase the value of your home and the quality of life for you, your family, and your visitors
  5. Painting Inside/Outside:
    1. Make sure your home has colors that are in the now.
      1. It speaks volumes when surfaces look to be modern and up to date

Lighting 

  1. Outdoor Lighting & Indoor Lighting:
    1. Not only is outdoor lighting a great safety feature,
      1. It can also add a splash of class and sophistication
      2. When you use a narrow spotlight up the trunk of your palm trees to highlight the shear size and hidden textures
    2. Outdoor lighting can light up the best features of your home’s exterior
    3. Replace out dated interior lighting, it adds value quickly
    4. Indoor lighting can add depth for creating mood lighting or for the functionality when reading or cooking dinner
    5. Track lighting underneath kitchen cabinets makes a statement
    6. Recessed lighting in the living room adds a new level of ambiance
    7. A modern lighting fixture with a dimmer in the bathroom is quite appealing
  2. Outdoor Features:
    1. Fireplace
    2. Landscape
    3. Decl
    4. Stone walkways

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