Sometimes looking through the real estate listings in the Sunday morning newspaper lures you out to a few open houses. All those pretty, new homes are so tempting and your comfortable, cozy home seems a bit staid and old-fashioned in comparison.
If you love that well-lived-in home, you don’t have to move to get a new look. Consider instead how a home improvement remodeling project could update your beloved home so it’s more in style with those that tempted you over in that strange neighborhood without all the pretty gardens and landscaping you’ve worked so hard to cultivate.
When dreaming of a new look, consider how to incorporate the features you liked best about the new homes into your home improvement remodeling plan.
Like the bigger rooms with the wide-open feel?
Your home improvement remodeling job can accomplish that look by removing or relocating a wall or two.
Since the room will be empty to accommodate the repairs, extend your home improvement remodeling project to include earthy tile or wood floors instead of the old, well-trodden carpet. And add a few coats of paint in an elegant color similar to what you saw in the model homes.
Did the many windows and abundant sunshine in the kitchens of those showcase homes catch your attention?
Have your home improvement remodeling project focus on that busy room of the house. Perhaps you can raise the roof a few feet and install windows at the newly created ceiling line. And you can add a sun light or two or expand existing windows.
Dream of spending hours in a bathroom as luxurious as those on show?
Think about the rooms adjacent to the existing bathroom in your home. If you no longer use the nursery, office, or walk-in-closet on the other side of the bathroom wall, make provisions in your home improvement remodeling job to turn those unused rooms into bathroom space and fill your new bathroom with fixtures fit for a queen.
Sometimes a home improvement remodeling job seems intimidating at the outset. Instead of tackling it as one giant makeover, work with just one room at a time. This way you can become comfortable with the remodeling situation on a small scale while you refine your home improvement remodeling plans for the rest of your home.
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