5 Benefits of Renovating Your Home!

Could your property do with a new look? ​

Whether you are looking to transform your house to put it on the market, or simply want to enhance your living environment and the aesthetic of the space where you spend the majority of your time, a partial or complete home renovation boasts an array of short term and long term benefits for homeowners. At Marcraft Homes, our experience in providing affordable home renovation services across the Tri-Cities has allowed us to better understand the market and the main benefits of investing money into home improvement services, and here’s our top 5 reasons why:

Increases Property Value

From a fresh coat of paint to new fixtures and appliance upgrades, renovating for a profit is certainly doable with the help of industry professionals. From understanding colour palettes and timeless designs, there’s a number of simple home improvements that can drastically improve the value of one’s property by modernizing the interior, refreshing the exterior or simply opening up a previously small and lifeless space.  

If you don’t have the funds or time to complete a full home renovation, don’t underestimate the power of focusing on a few key rooms, such as the bathroom and kitchen. Whether your home is vintage and quirky or just slightly outdated and run down, simple retouches can drastically improve the perceived value for years to come. Having provided affordable home renovation services around the Tri-Cities for upwards of 10 years, here’s our top value-adding details you’d be crazy not to include in your home reno:

• Fresh coat of paint
• Air-conditioning
• High quality branded kitchen appliances
• Polished floorboards
• Large bathroom tiles
• New Bathroom Reno
• Open plan living
• LED lighting

Check out these stunning home renovation done by the team at Marcraft Homes:

Enhances Energy Efficiency & Reduces Utility Bills

When people think of home renovation, they generally associate it with lavish and visible improvements to a home, including a fresh paint job, complete layout redesign and new colour scheme. However, one hugely beneficial part of renovating your home is upgrading old fixtures and plumbing to modern and more energy efficient models, which effectively help to lower your utility bills. Simply upgrading your plumbing and fixtures alone can make a world of difference, not to mention even greater long term savings should you choose to opt for the green, eco-friendly options. Despite the initial expense, it’ll pay off in the long run!

Likewise, replacing or updating fixtures and faucets will immediately revitalise and modernise your home, and will ultimately increase the value of your property with regards to visual appeal and long-term functionality.   

Allows Homeowners to Customize Their Space

This might just be the reason many decide to renovate their old house. Home renovation allows you to create a living place that reflects your own personal style. A fresh coat of paint, new landscape, or even just a new gate can give visitors a strong impression of the homeowner’s style and taste.

Whether it’s a property you’re looking to sell or a house you want to turn into a 'home’, through hand picking the colour scheme, décor and layout, you have full control over the design of your home and have the ability to create a cohesive design that is a reflection of your style and taste, from the inside to the outside.

Regardless of your style, taste or budget, anything is achievable with a home renovation. Check out these unique living room renovations done by Marcraft Homes:

Maximize the Space

Houses can get cramped over time as families grow, resulting in the space looking small, outdated and impractical. At Marcraft Homes, our team of experienced home renovators and designers are experts in affordable home renovation services in Port Moody and we know what it takes to breathe new life into confined and cluttered spaces to maximise the area. From carefully selecting the right colour scheme to completely changing the interior layout or window placement to widen the space or draw in more natural light, there are a number of tricks that will allow you to emphasise your home’s winning features, while simultaneously minimising flaws.

As the most prominent room in a home, the kitchen should be a masterpiece. At Marcraft Homes, we pride ourselves on stunning designs and a quality finish. Here’s a quick look at a few recent kitchen renovations our team’s done:

Helps to Avoid the Cost and Stress of Moving

When you get tired of a home, your first instinct is to pack up and move – right? With a home renovation service, you get to recreate the space as extensively or minimally as you want to design your dream layout and design, allowing you to save the hundreds of thousands it would’ve cost you to relocate to a new home. Aside from the obvious prices associated with purchasing a new property, there’s also plenty of additional costs, such as agent’s commission, legal fees and relocation fees. Marcraft Homes’ affordable home renovation service in the Tri-Cities will take the stress, hassle and financial burden out of finding the home of your dreams, we’ll simply create it for you!

A fresh coat of paint is sometimes all you need. Here’s some of our favourite Marcraft Homes painting projects:

If you’re looking to renovate your home and don’t quite know where to begin, give our friendly team a call today. For the very best in affordable home renovation services in the Tri-Cities, there truly is no one better suited than Marcraft Homes!