The home you’re living in might have been just the right size for the two of you before you started a family, but now that you have kids, it’s beginning to feel cramped and claustrophobic. While you might feel as if moving to a bigger home is your only option, if you love living there but simply need more space, adding a room might be a more cost-effective and practical solution.
Provided you don’t need to make major structural alterations to your existing home to make it bigger, a room addition can bring a whole host of benefits, and here are just 5 of them:
- More space
Of course when you add a room on to your home, you get more usable space, and this can be ideal for couples who have already started a family, or who are about to. From another bedroom, to a home office or playroom, you’d be surprised just how much difference one extra room can make to a home in terms of space.
2. A more valuable home
When done well (i.e. carried out by an experienced home addition company), a room addition can significantly increase the value of a property, and offer homeowners a return of as much as 60% on their initial investment. Not only that, but a bigger home means that you can sell it for more, too.
3. Additional income
By adding a simple room to your home that has a small kitchen and bathroom attached (like a self-contained unit), you could find a tenant to rent the space and make some extra income every month.
4. More storage space
If storage is a major issue for you, a home addition in the form of a garage or similar space, could give you a solution to all of that clutter that you can’t quite bring yourself to toss in the trash, sell or recycle. Alternatively, you could add on a luxurious master bedroom with fitted, or walk-in closets (or both), or find a more stylish solution to your home storage issues in the form of a remodelled kitchen and voluminous pantry.
Whatever extra storage solutions you can add on to your home will prove popular should you decide to sell the property, but these are difficult to add without at least creating a little extra space in the form of an additional room or garage.
5. Endless ways to customize the space
Lastly, there are so many different ways to add space to your home, that there’s surely an affordable and functional solution for every homeowner. Be creative and work with an experienced home renovation company to get the most out of your existing home, and squeeze some more out of it wherever possible. Customize the space to fit your needs, and give yourself more reasons to stay in the property you love.
While not all homes will be suitable for a room addition, many will, and it could be a far more convenient and attractive option for a lot of homeowners, than the prospect of having to up sticks and relocate, simply to gain more space.