Home Remodeling is an Important Investment With Lasting Value

Your home is not just a place where you and your family live. It also is the most significant investment you can expect to make throughout your lifetime. This is especially true after you pay off the mortgage and home sweet home is all yours. The key to getting the highest financial investment out of your house involves making improvements on it in the form of home remodeling projects.

In other words, home remodeling is an important investment with lasting value
You have a seemingly endless number of ideas to choose from for home remodeling projects. At Mares & Dow, our team of highly-rated contractors complete bathroom and kitchen renovations, as well as waterproof basements and repair foundation structural issues. We are also known as the go-to home remodeling contractor for three specializations.

Skylights
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Mares & Dow helps homeowners get the most out of lighting systems. We also install skylights, which welcome sunlight into any room in your home. Installing skylights is an important investment with lasting value for several reasons. First, numerous studies demonstrate increasing the amount of sunlight in a room enhances a room’s ambiance, which translates into elevating everyone’s mood that passes through the room. Second, sunlight represents a free way to warm up a room on a cold winter day. Third, this means you can expect lower monthly energy bills. Finally, our team of contractors directs natural illumination to focal points in a room, such as on an art collection or a valuable piece of furniture.

Siding

One of the most common ways to ensure your house has lasting value involves boosting its curb appeal. Curb appeal refers to the first impression people have of your home’s exterior. You can enhance the curb appeal of your home by installing a new roof and completing an exterior paint project. However, a more affordable home remodeling project that boosts curb appeal involves installing new siding. The right siding acts as a complementary feature to other exterior elements such as your home’s windows. You should choose a color for siding that blends seamlessly with other design elements that are added as part of a home remodeling project.

Retaining Wall

Retaining walls serve several functional purposes that increase the value of your home. Building a retaining wall in a low-lying area of your property diverts rainwater away from the foundation of your house. Adding a retaining wall also protects the most vulnerable area of your yard from erosion. However, retaining walls also can improve the visual appeal of your property, especially if you customize the design of a retaining wall. At Mares & Dow, we work closely with homeowners to design the most visually appealing customized retaining walls.

Hire the Right General Contractor for Your Home Remodeling Project

You have decided on what type of home remodeling project you want to complete for giving your house lasting value. Now, the time has come to choose the right general contractor to get the job done right.

Several factors play a role in selecting the best general contractor. You want to hire a team of home remodeling professionals who have several years of experience working on your type of home remodeling project. With that experience, the general contractor hired for your project should possess a record of proven success completing home remodeling projects. The general contractor should have earned the right credentials, such as the certification that makes the general contractor a part of the Building Industry Association (BIA).

The final factor to consider and the one that confirms the other factors is the positive reviews left by former clients on sites like Yelp and Google.