Inside and out, the right home improvement projects can positively impact your home’s value. From garage door replacements that have a calculated 94.5 percent return on investment to adding decorative mouldings that complement your home’s personal style, home upgrades can make a big difference.            

“Making positive changes to your home almost always has payback,” says realtor Vincent A. Stanson, a REALTOR® associate with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services in New Jersey. “It doesn’t matter if you’re making changes for your own personal enjoyment or as enticements to sell a property. When you upgrade any aspect of your home it results in a positive return on investment.”

Sweeping Statements

Inside the home, one of the most eye-catching changes you can make is to upgrade an aging stairway system.

“Whether people change out the entire stairway or opt to replace just the balusters, this home improvement project makes a large visual impact,” says Craig Kurtz, president of L.J. Smith Stair Systems. “These days there are DIY kits that make it simple to transform the look of a stairway. With an IronPro™ system, dated wooden balusters can be swapped out for more trendy iron balusters. Homeowners can replace all or just a few of their old wooden balusters to create a new look.”

DIY Success

Part of the joy of home improvement projects is seeing instant results. When homeowners tackle DIY projects, like painting a room or replacing a kitchen backsplash, the results are instantaneous.

You can tackle some DIY projects involving in just a few hours. Especially those involving moulding and millwork. Adding floating shelves or a rustic mantel to a room is a fast, easy project. And, for those with another set of helping hands, even attaching faux wood beams to a ceiling can be done in just a day.

“Making changes with millwork products is very rewarding,” says Keith Early, vice president of marketing and new product development at Ornamental Moulding & Millwork. “I recently transformed an ugly basement in my own home. Rustic faux wood beams were added to the ceiling and decorative boards create a ‘box look’ around round white steel posts. I even installed Rustic Maple Boards to create a bar area. Now we have a basement retreat instead of a dumping ground for boxes.”

Finally, here’s a tip from realtor Stanson. Make sure to use all the free tools available from manufacturers when working on home improvement projects. For example, at Ornamental Moulding and Millwork, we offer you free 6-inch samples of mouldings to help you make moulding decisions for your home.

“Product samples, literature and online visualizers can all help make home upgrades less daunting and more productive,” says Stanson. “This is a smart way to start any home improvement project.”

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