There can be a number of reasons for wanting to renovate the exterior of your home. However, these reasons are ultimately about either improving or maintaining the quality of your investment. This might amount to undertaking that necessary maintenance work; it might involve adding touches that increase your home’s curb appeal; or it might mean boosting your living space with additions, patios, and porches.
Whatever the case may be, you can be sure that the experts at Davidoff Roofing are there to lend a helping hand in guiding you through your exterior home renovation decisions.
Can You Renovate the Exterior of Your House?
Don’t renovations have to do with the interior of a home? What is an exterior renovation? In fact, there are a number of ways in which you can renovate your home’s exterior. For instance, a roofing job is perhaps one of the most common and important exterior home renovations.
Quite often, roofs are replaced for maintenance purposes so as to prevent water and weather damage to the home. However, roofs can also be upgraded with the installation of roofing materials of increased durability, additional attic vents, and skylights for improved visibility inside the home. These sorts of improvements are not just about maintenance; they can add to the value, security and enjoyability of your home.
Renovations can be focused on just about anything on your home’s exterior, such as doors, windows, siding, lighting, soffits and fascia, eavestroughs, and porches or patios. Improving or freshening up any of these things can help you add to or maintain the value of your home.
How Can I Make the Front of My House More Appealing?
If your home’s exterior has functional but outdated or weathered siding, you might consider having it replaced with a crisp and enlivened alternative. In combination with an improvement to your exterior lighting, a siding job can make all the difference to your home’s curb appeal.
Alternatively, you might wish to change out older windows and doors for updated new ones. Not only can this increase the security and energy efficiency of your home, but it can also spell a night-and-day distinction in its beauty and appeal to potential buyers. Moreover, some jobs, such as replacing malfunctioning gutters or reshingling the roof, may need to be done, not only for your own peace of mind, but for the sake of maintaining your home’s value and marketability. There is no shortage of things you can do to improve your home’s exterior.
What Are the Benefits to Renovating the Exterior of My Home?
It’s always a good idea to prioritize your renovations according to their degree of importance. To a large extent, this will depend on your overall vision for your home as well as your own limitations of budget, time, and preference. It’s important to prioritize repair and maintenance jobs that need to be done for the sake of safeguarding your investment.
If, for example, your roof needs replacing and you would also like to change out your siding, we would recommend prioritizing the roof if your budget will only allow for one of the two jobs. Other factors you may wish to take into account before embarking on a renovation job, however, are the benefits this job will bring to your home’s value and marketability, security, aesthetic appeal, and energy efficiency.
How Do You Update an Old House?
Updated or freshened siding or veneer, trim, fascia and gutters can make a world of difference to an older home. Engineered products, such as stone veneers and decorative trim, are available that can tie in with the era and exterior decor of your house while providing you with the peace of mind that comes from knowing they will require little to no maintenance or upkeep (e.g. painting).
Alternatively, if your home’s exterior is not old per se but is certainly outdated, you may wish to remodel it, either to bring it up to date or to give it the rustic look of an older era.
Are you looking to update your home’s exterior? Davidoff Roofing offers quality exterior home renovation services. Book an estimate today.