A Simple Easy Inexpensive Way to Increase the Value of Your Home

Being a homeowner meaning being responsible. There is a lot of responsibility that comes along with home ownership. We are responsible for making repairs, for utilities, for heating our homes, and for making sure that their appearance is up to par. Another responsibility of a homeowner, a financially smart homeowner, is to make sure that their homes value goes up over the years rather than down. When interest is paid on a mortgage you pay more than your homes price. The home is an investment. You do not ever want to buy a home for fifty thousand and later have it reassessed at twenty five thousand. Especially not when you end up paying back a mortgage of sixty thousand or more due to added interest. See? Homeowners want the value of their homes to go up, not down. In twenty years you want that home you purchased for fifty thousand to be worth one hundred thousand.

There are many, many ways that homeowners can increase the values of their homes. The are things you can do on the exterior of your home, and to the land your home sits on. There are also minor repairs that you can make in the interior of your home. One of those things is adding molding, or replacing damaged, old molding.

Molding is that thin border of wood that you find at the tops of your walls, at the bottoms of your walls, around your doors, and around your windows. It comes in eight foot lengths, and can be cut shorter or ordered longer to meet your needs.

The first thing to do when choosing to purchase molding is to shop around. It really is very inexpensive. That's not the reason to shop around though. The reason is because you'll need to find a molding that you love. Most homeowners go through their home with the same style molding. Others play it different and do each room uniquely. That choice is totally up to you.

Molding can be bought white, finished wood grain, or unfinished. It can also be painted. The most common color for molding is white. However, when a home has personality and is tastefully done the value goes up. That means if you want your molding to be bright red go for it, just make sure it matches the rest of the room!

To know how many feet of molding you'll need to get for your project you'll need to get the following supplies handy: a pen and paper, and a tape measure. Go through your home, room by room. Measure all around every door and every window, then along the floors. The measurement you get for the molding at the bottom of the wall is generally the same as the measurement you get at the top of the wall. In this case you need not re-measure because you know that the length you'll need for the molding at the bottom of the wall is the same of that which you will need for the top.

Once you have your molding purchased and home there's only a few things left to do. Take those measurements and cut your molding accordingly. Corners are not hard. A perfectly diagonal cut will make two pieces fit together for a corner. It's a ninety degree angle and a T-square is commonly used. A skill saw works very well and very quickly to cut molding.

Use a hammer and finishing nails, or an air nail gun which uses finishing nails to hang, or to put up, your molding. Use sheetrock compound to fill in the indents where the nail went in. Sand if need be and then paint. Unless you're repainting the walls too you'll want to use some painters tape when painting your molding. Molding can be painted before it is hung, however, there will be nail indent holes.

Well, that's it. Adding molding, or replacing damaged molding can greatly improve the look of each room in your home. It can also increase you homes value by quite a bit. Choose a fine molding, something made of real wood for the significant impact on both looks, and value! Thanks for reading and take care!