Nine Unconventional Ways to Improve Your Home

Conventional wisdom, as it relates to houses, is often too much convention and not enough wisdom.

Every year, somebody publishes a list of whichconventional home improvementswill give you the best (or theworst) return on your remodeling investment.

Remodel abathroom. Replace your siding. Dont build a swimming pool.Paint everything neutral colors.

Sit up straight. Get a haircut. Call your mother.

If return on investment (ROI) is why you bought a home, or why youre remodeling one, you can stop reading now. Because the rest of this article isnt for you.

Three, two, onestill here?

You invest in your home to improve livability first, not value. If you get more value in the process, consider it a bonus, but dont make ROI your prime directive.

Otherwise youll end up like the potential client that came into my office a few years ago with a three-page single-spaced typewritten (as in made with a typewriter) list of things he wanted in his house.

His list included this line: A large dining room, near the kitchen. Although we dont need or want a dining room. Why would he want to build a room he didnt need?

Because hes thinking of things to make the house valuable, instead of things to make it livable.

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