Title: McGraw-Hill How to Increase the Value of Your Home
Format: PDF
Pages: 209
Excerpt from Introduction: Home improvement is our new national pastime. My coauthor
Vicki and I can say that unequivocally because of one stunning
fact: Consumers spent a record $163 billion on home improvements
in 2002, and that was easily surpassed in 2003, as they sunk more than
$200 billion into their homes.
This trend has spawned all kinds of “how to” books. How to build
a deck, how to fix your kitchen, how to wire a house, and how to fix
your plumbing. But our book is a little different. It’s a “how to” book
that shows you how to tackle home improvements so that you actually
increase the value of your home.
This book will help you decide where to start. Should you begin in
the kitchen with the dark brown cabinets, the dark brown burlap on the
walls, and the ceiling fixture with two 15-watt light bulbs? Or perhaps in
the formal dining room with the black spiral staircase? Or the front
hallway with the closet painted like a circus tent with alternating chartreuse
and white stripes?
Don’t laugh. I was faced with remodeling all three. The first two
have come and gone, but I just won’t let my wife Janet paint that closet.
That’s because when we get compliments about our house, I want
people to know that it didn’t always look the way it does today.Having
a book like this when we first started our home remodeling odyssey
would have saved us from some early mistakes.
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