Whether you’re considering selling your home, or just want to create a more beautiful environment for yourself, home improvements can do wonders for making a more aesthetically appealing home and increasing its value at the same time. Let’s take a look at a few home improvement ideas for 2020 that can add value, beauty and space to your home.

Extra Accommodations

If you have a basement or large spacious attic, creating living accommodations for ageing parents or recent college grads who can’t afford their own place yet can be a good use of the space – particularly if it’s been going unused. With proper permitting, this can also add significant resale value to your home, because the new owners can rent it out.

Open Up the Kitchen

A hot trend for a modern or rustic-style kitchen is open shelving to show off your dish collections. It also provides more storage space for large or bulky items that wouldn’t fit behind the closed doors of cabinets. Painted in white or other light neutral colors, this can also make the space feel brighter and larger.

Floors

They’re a bit of a pain to maintain, particularly if you have kids, but white flooring will be everywhere in 2018. The light color brightens up any room and reflects natural light beautifully. Go with white tile, marble, or other hard surfaces to make cleanup easier and faster. White also gives you a blank canvas on which to choose the other colors you want in a room – white goes with everything.

Increase Living Space

By finishing a basement, attic or some other unfinished space, you can increase the living area of your home. In addition to the added space, this will also increase the value of your home by reducing the cost per square foot down.

Energy Efficient Windows

If your home lacks basic insulation, and has old doors that let in plenty of hot and cold air, home inspectors working with potential buyers will include this in their reports. Homes that haven’t been modified with energy efficiency in mind cost more to live in and maintain.

Seal cracks around the house to save even more money on energy costs, and to make your home more appealing to buyers. You can also add extra insulation to your attic for less money, and this small change can save you hundreds each year on your utility bills.

Redesign the bathroom

Rustic bathrooms will be pushing aside the modern bathroom. Think clawfoot tubs, shiplap walls, or a used trough from an old feed store as a shower. A few small touches can make a world of difference. Bathroom renovations can be of great resale value, as a dated bathroom can make or break the sale.

It never hurts to consider the small touches, either. Swapping out light fixtures or faucets throughout the house, updating appliances, or repainting walls can redefine and beautify your home.

Make sure you hire qualified contractors, and that you pull all the proper permits before you start any major renovations, though. The last thing you want is to increase the cost of your home improvement with unnecessary fines.

For questions about these or other home improvement ideas to add value to your home, please contact us at Andersen Group Realty.