Category: Home Design

If you own your home, you’ll ultimately want to keep its value as high as you can. And if extensive renovation projects are too far out of reach, thinking of ways to build on your initial investment can be difficult. Luckily, you don’t need to spend a fortune to increase the resale value of your home – you can even use someone like AK Aire Home Services to help you out.   Whether you’ve only just bought your home or you’re making another investment soon, it’s always worth knowing the savviest home improvement tips to help you turn a profit.  

Five affordable home improvements to make your home more valuable

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With the recent trending-up of flat screen TVs to humongous sizes, many of us feel like we’ve already got something of a cinema system in our homes. Of course, nothing can quite replace the thrill of the authentic cinema experience – something the movie buffs amongst us know keenly. But, if afforded the spare room to create a cinema space of your own, what could you do to get the closest to that unique theatre experience?

The Equipment

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We’ve previously written about how you can reinvent a small space, for instance, making the corner of a small room into a functional office space, and so I want to spend a little bit of time talking about some of my previous experience doing merchandising and layout work in retail and non-retail spaces, and about how lessons from that can help you further optimise a space.

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When it comes to where you work, you can be uninspired if you have been working in the same, boring room for quite some time. We’ve previously talked about how to create a functional office, but today, we are going to look at updating your office and ensuring that the place you are working in is inspiration and able to help you work well when you are there! This article specifically looks at updating a home office.

Paint a feature wall

The walls of your office is one of the first things that you should start with your walls. Often, in most buildings these days, walls are painted a natural color; white, grey, light blue. These colors present a clean room or area, which is good, but not having a lot of color in your room can make it feel sterile, uninspiring, and just drab. You can make the decision to change all of the walls, or focus on a feature wall. Wallpapering or painting a feature wall, possible as a backdrop if you are often on camera for your job, is a really fun idea. Having this entire new wall can really update your space and make it feel more bright, colorful and fun, especially depending on the vibe you go for, for your wall.

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