One of the biggest reasons our clients decide to improve their existing homes is they love their location and the amenities it offers.
A major decision you may be considering is whether to move or improve your home. With a growing family, your house may feel like it’s bulging at the beams due to overcrowding. You would like a larger home with more of the modern conveniences, but at the same time you love your friendly neighborhood and do not want to leave. You want to keep your children together with their current group of friends in your wonderful school district. Through your involvement in the PTA or the school sports programs you have gotten to know the other parents and you enjoy their friendship as well. Ask yourself, would moving mean that your children would have to change schools?
A family’s ties to the community, as well as their proximity to schools, local services, churches and places of employment are all factors they consider. Would moving create more of a commute to work? By improving instead of moving, a family can avoid disrupting these important connections.
Finances are also an influential part of the move vs. improve decision.
Many people who may be reluctant or unable to finance a full scale relocation often have sufficient savings or home equity available to change their current home into their dream home. One of the biggest attractions of remodeling is that the money spent on moving expenses, closing costs and an agent’s commission will not be required. The worry of selling your current home is also avoided by remodeling. In fact, remodeling can often increase the future resale value of your home, especially if the improvements increase living space. The biggest resale returns generally come from improvements that bring the house up to the value of other homes in your same neighborhood. Remember, however, you are doing this for the enjoyment of the improvements, not just for the amount you can recoup if you eventually sell.
Remodeling can take the same selling points that make new construction so appealing and bring them into your existing home.
Another aspect of the move vs. improve consideration is the lure of those new homes that are being built in other parts of town. All those great ideas and innovations you see at an Open House or on a realtor’s website can be very enticing. Can you have the same features built into your existing home that you are looking for in a new home—such as increased space or a more functional floor plan? Remodeling can take the same selling points that make new construction so appealing and bring them into your existing home.
A talented design/build remodeler like T.W. Ellis can reconfigure your current space and open it up or suggest an addition, giving your home a new lease on life. As a design/build remodeler with many years of experience, T.W. Ellis will be able to conceptualize the engineering involved because we know how older homes are put together and what can and cannot be changed about their construction. You will be able to enjoy the improved functionality and amenities that you might have considered moving in order to obtain.
If you would like more information, please visit our website at twellis.com. T.W. Ellis Design/Build can give you the space you need and that new home feel without changing your address. We would welcome a chance to look at the possibilities in your home.
