Regular home maintenance is a critical component of your home’s quality assurance. While wear and tear are unavoidable, regular home maintenance is vital in protecting your home’s value. Routine care improves curb appeal, guarantees your family’s safety, and prevents ignored upkeep from becoming costly renovations later on. The following are some valuable home renovation tips for increasing the value of your home:

1. Utilize storage systems
A well-maintained storage system increases the safety and organization of your home, while also making access easier. Storage is necessary to keep our homes uncluttered, and it can easily be incorporated into your garage (e.g., horizontal bike storage, pinboard tool storage), kitchen (e.g., overhead storage for pots and pans), bathroom storage (e.g., shower caddies and shelving) and closet storage systems to improve the shape and function of all rooms.

2. Update a front door so it’s more inviting
Create a welcome front entrance by painting it a bright color, putting a contemporary window, or even updating the door hardware. You can also plant flowers or install herb boxes in order to give the outside of your home more curb appeal.

3. Prevent a total roof replacement
Despite the importance of a roof in safeguarding one’s family, most people ignore it and only respond when something goes wrong. Re-roofing is an expensive endeavor that should be avoided by performing regular roof repairs and maintenance. Among other benefits, timely care helps extend the roof’s life. A properly-maintained roof saves you money as well as time. Roof maintenance is less expensive than replacing the entire roof. Furthermore, it benefits the environment by keeping old roof shingles out of landfills while also preserving the visual value of your building. Roof maintenance consists of a seasonal roof inspection to suss out any damage, broken shingles, or hanging tree branches to limit the amount of debris on the roof; and cleaning gutters to prevent water flow obstruction.

4. Avoid investing in new windows too soon
Window replacements are a costly endeavor. Also, the cost of these repairs may rise over time. There are, however, some straightforward solutions for homeowners to avoid the expensive fines. For example, repair ripped screens with patches; and seal leaky windows every year by utilizing freeze spray insulation. This prevents air from entering your home, lowering the possibility of your windows fogging or freezing. You can also spray window tracks with lubricant to make them glide more smoothly.

5. Get on top of foundation repairs
Using a polyurethane foam makes it easy to plug small foundation cracks via the building’s floor slab or wall. Sealing concrete cracks with long-lasting urethane caulk keeps water out and protects your foundation from additional cracking and deterioration. This procedure takes less than a half-hour to complete.

6. Transform your garage into usable space
A garage may be more than just a place to park your car. However, this section of a house is typically messy and neglected. Start by decluttering, replacing your garage door, adding insulation to seal the garage floor, dividing the area into storage sections, and converting your garage into a home office, among other things.