subject: Improving Your Home With Home Renovation [print this page] Home improvement often goes by another name, which you are probably more familiar with- home renovation. This process involves making changes to your existing home or extending it by adding spaces or structures. Converting your extra garage into a den for your teenage son could be a project in home improvement, as could ripping off that old rose print wallpaper off your bedroom walls and painting it a creamy white. Home improvement projects dont need to be restricted to interiors. You could work on your garden, or lawn, even your backyard. All of that could be described as home improvement.
We will talk about how you can improve your home by working on the elements of comfort within it. One way of achieving this is by changing your HVAC inside out (HVAC includes heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems). You also have the option of retaining your old system and upgrading it, since it is more expensive to get a complete new system installed.
Next, you should look at plumbing and electrical systems. You may consider getting new plumbing lines, if yours are over two decades old. If you still want to make do with them, hire a professional plumber and get the lines cleaned thoroughly. This will get rid of deposits of waste and mineral salts that tend to clog the lines over the years. When this has been done, you will find that your immediate water supply functions more efficiently than ever before, and as a bonus, your bathrooms will stay cleaner and smell fresher all day long.
As for the electrical systems, you should get them checked for melted fuse wires and broken ends and loose contact points every so often, perhaps once in six months. Get any problems fixed without delay; you dont want any fatal accidents. If you want a change in the way your home looks, a good idea is to get some new lights and put them in at vantage points through the house. You can have one that casts a glow over a nice picture on a span of empty wall in your living room. You can have a mini chandelier right over your dining table, if you have an exclusive dining area. You can get energy saver lights for use on regular days and switch on the concealed party lights on special evenings.
To make sure your house is as healthy as you, you must get your basement waterproofed. Once that is done, you can set aside your worries about draughts damaging your basement walls and lending them that blotchy, sad look.
You might get your bedrooms and baths soundproofed if you are one of the many people who hate being woken up from sleep by a huge crash in your neighbors porch, or jerked out of a reverie in a hot bath at the end of the day. This will set you back by a few hundred dollars, but in the end, the comfort you get in exchange for that, for decades if not for ever, is worth spending the money on. See what you need to do to get your home in ship shape!
