Renovating your home has a ton of different benefits. Home improvement is something that everyone should consider spending time doing. When you upgrade your home, you upgrade your environment. In turn you ensure that you will be able to relax more in the evenings and enjoy a greater sense of satisfaction when looking around your rooms. Our environments shape our moods more than we realize. As a result, this is a fantastic way to upgrade the way you feel daily.
Best Home Improvement Projects for Your Home
Not only that, but upgrading your home creates new opportunities for the way that you spend time in your environment. In addition, it even increases the value of your property, meaning that you will get most of the money back. In fact you might even make a profit!
So, what are the “best” home improvement projects? This is a difficult question of course, as the best project will usually be subjective.
Let’s consider some criteria for selecting the best projects then. To make this list, a project must:
- Result in tangible improvements to the aesthetics or function of your home
- Increase the value of your property
- Be relatively easy and require a modest investment of time, money, and effort
- Be something that you can do yourself
In short: we’re going to list projects that can quickly, easily, and impactfully improve your home the most.
Detoxing
We talk about detoxing the body, but detoxing the home is just as important. The simple fact of the matter for a lot of people, is that they have too much stuff, and this can have surprisingly serious implications for their ability to keep their home clean and tidy, as well as to carry out other home improvement tasks.
For example, if you can’t easily put your pots and pans away because the cupboard is so full, then chances are that they’re often going to get left on the sideboard to collect dust and make the room look cluttered.
Likewise, you might have a stroller living in your kitchen that could go in the cupboard under the stairs… if only it wasn’t so full!
There are probably piles of paper on your microwave, and draws stuffed full of things you’ll never use. The shed and attic might be filled with old junk that you’d rather not think about!
All of this can not only be stressful, but also prevent you from getting work done. So take off a few days and spend those days getting rid of everything you don’t need. You might hire a small skip to come to your home, or even a van. Make plenty of trips to the tip and to charity shops.
Your home will not only look cleaner after this, but it will now be easier to carry out any work that you have to subsequently. It’s so easy, but it’s massive!
Painting
What is surprising is that relatively small jobs can sometimes have the biggest impact on your home. You might not even register the difference consciously, but these things just help the entire place to feel a little more “up together.”
For example, painting the skirting boards and light switches in your rooms. This will make every room feel just a little brighter and a little better taken care of, and it’s extremely simple for you to do!
Likewise, painting the exterior of your home can also make a big difference. So too can painting your fence panels and shed in the garden.
Replacing the Taps
This is a one-day job that you can hire someone to do, and it will make your bathroom and kitchen not only look cleaner and more modern, but also function better if there was any leak or other issue with the tap.
Buying Large Items
Buying a few large items for your home can make a big difference to the feel of the rooms they go in. Examples include bathroom storage, or a big mirror for your bedroom. This is an instant win, and it’s something that can help organize your other items too!
How does this add value? Simple: it helps to “sell” your rooms to visitors, by showing them what your home is capable of looking like.
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