Home Improvements to Suit You, Not Prospective Buyers

When it comes to improving your home, your decisions may be influenced to a degree by the value they could add when it comes time to sell your property. However, an expert has claimed that residential property owners are now increasingly opting for home improvements that suit them rather than estate agents.

Editor of Home Beautiful magazine, Julia Goodwin, has stated that the days of a ‘quick tart-up’ are gone.

This includes making the home smart and painting the walls beige in an attempt to impress estate agents. Goodwin stated that ‘that way of thinking has disappeared forever’.

This feeling is backed up by the results of a recent poll carried out for Aspect Maintenance, where 70 percent of Londoners plan on improving their homes in the next year, but only 14 percent of these are doing it to help them sell their property.

This suggests that people are thinking more along the lines of long term benefits and ways of making the home more comfortable.

Double glazing is one such industry that is becoming more and more popular over time, as people seek to reduce the amount of heat lost through windows and to make homes naturally warmer. People are also choosing additions such as conservatories as cost effective ways to add living space and improve the quality of the property at the same time.