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!

Here is an example of molding placed where the wall and the ceiling meet.

Credit: Samantha Thompson

Copyright: Samantha Thompson