Five Ways To Add Value To Your Home

22 Jan

Bright living-dining room with skylight, a wooden table, sofa, bookshelves, and a potted tree, opening to a garden.

It is always worth considering ways in which you can bolster the financial value of your home, regardless of whether you’re currently looking to move property or not.

There are several great ways in which you can modify your home so that it, not only appreciates financially, but improves the feel of the home as well. Some may argue that you can’t put a price on a property’s feel, however, more often than not, home improvements do aid your property’s value.

The team here at Aliwood, manufacturers of bespoke roof lanterns, got together and compiled a few ways in which you can improve the monetary value of your home.

1. Redoing Your Kitchen

Most people would agree that it’s not the living room, but the kitchen that is the heart of the home. It serves as a focal point for everything good that goes through the home. Food, family, friends, they all converge through the kitchen at one point or another. While a shabby, dated kitchen can put people off buying a home, a well-thought-out kitchen, complete with high-spec appliances can make the sale of a house. Adding a roof lantern to your kitchen can really give it the wow factor you’re looking for! Not only does it flood the space with natural sunlight but it will make the room look and feel bigger.

Modern kitchen with skylight, large island, white countertops, dark cabinets, and big windows showing greenery outside.

2. Converting Your Loft

Converting your loft space is a sure-fire way to add value to your home. Normally acting as a storage space, converting a loft into an additional bedroom can add immense monetary value to your property. In fact, recent reports have found that a loft converted into an additional bedroom (complete with en-suite bathroom) increased a property’s value by up to 21%. Loft conversions needn’t be dark and dingy either; their sloped roofs are perfect for skylights! The tallest room in the house, perhaps, but certainly not one to forget about.

Spacious, empty attic with wooden beams and floorboards, illuminated by sunlight streaming through the roof.

3. Adding An Orangery Or Flat Roof Extension

Originally dating back to the 17th century, orangeries started life solely as the preserve of the wealthy establishment. These timber buildings, paired with glass and masonry, are truly opulent spaces. Fortunately, they’re now more functional spaces which you can add to your home to serve as living or dining spaces. Don’t worry, though, they are still stunning visually. Contemporary roof lanterns fitted into their flat roofs ensure that an orangery’s capacious dimensions are always amply illuminated. Orangeries offer your home an exclusive, luxury feel that will leave visitors craving one for themselves.

Illustration of a red-brick house with a glass extension, alongside a black and white architectural drawing.

4. Roof Lanterns

Speaking of roof lanterns, they don’t have to be reserved for an orangery. Roof lights are fantastic additions to any kitchen, living or office space; they ensure that your home is bathed in natural light (a boon for health, both physical and mental), and they do so in an incredibly stylish way. There is a much wider variety of contemporary roof lanterns available than you might imagine. Take their shape, for example, Aliwood offers roof lanterns that are square, rectangular and octagonal. There’s also a range of blacks, greys and whites that you can choose to use to paint the inner timber of your roof lantern. Our roof lanterns are bespoke, premium and tailored to your home’s needs.

Glass ceiling skylight with white frame, showing blue sky and clouds above, sunlight casting shadows inside.

5. Increase Your Home’s Efficiency

Making your home more energy efficient is a fantastic thing to do, especially given the current, global climate crisis. It’s also a great way to save money on your energy bills from month-to-month. Not only that, however, but a more efficient home is a more valuable home. Reports have shown that securing a higher energy rating for your property can increase its value from anywhere between ten and thirty per cent! Cavity insulation may not have the glitz and glamour of a bespoke orangery, but it certainly makes fiscal sense. Not only do Aliwood’s roof lanterns look the part, but our glazing is high insulating and the Sun Guard solar reflective coating helps to keep your room nice and cosy in winter, and nice and cool in the hotter, summer months.

A glowing light bulb in focus with a row of blurred lights in the background against a dark setting.

If you’d like to find out more about any of our contemporary roof lanterns, then get in touch today by calling 01245 967107 or visiting our website!

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