Exciting Value-Adding Ideas for Exterior Renovations

When people talk about renovations, they generally concentrate their ideas to the interiors of the house. Homeowners spend lots of time, money and effort decorating and furnishing their homes with sofas, art, wallpaper, mirrors, decor items, trinkets and so much more. However, what you don’t tend to hear about quite as often are exterior renovations, where people boost the kerbside appeal of their homes by focusing on the outside. 

Generating kerb appeal is an important aspect of maximising your home’s value, especially considering the outside will remain once the furniture and the personal belongings have gone. This article will offer some insights into effective and exciting exterior house renovation ideas, so you can feel inspired to work on your home’s facade. 

Primary reasons to enact exterior home renovations

Before you start your exterior renovations, it’s important to determine exactly why it is that you’re enacting the process. 

• Boosting property value in general. Having newer, more stylish and more functional parts of the home is bound to increase property value. Working on the exterior with contemporary front doors, increased window glazing and brick cleaning will generally increase kerbside appeal and overall market value.

• Increased energy efficiency. New doors, windows, added cladding and more can enhance insulation and improve the home’s envelope, lowering energy bills, crucial during the energy crisis. 

• General comfort & longevity. All of these elements that improve value will also make your home more comfortable and protected against the elements. 

Keep these reasons in mind before, during and after the house exterior renovation process. 

New front door installation

A new front door can easily be a core element of exterior renovations. This is the portal into your home and acts as a focal point, defining the character of your home’s facade. After measuring the space of the existing door frame, you need to seek out a provider that offers a range of different styles or even custom-built options. Popular styles might include: 

• Traditional

• Cottage-style

• Contemporary 

You should also be able to get them in alternate materials, such as composite or steel, for increased insulation and durability. Consider your sense of colour psychology, along with how the door you choose fits into your broader architectural style and renovations to come. 

Exterior painting/cleaning/rendering

You’d be surprised at how much you can transform a home’s look by simply giving it a fresh coat of paint, a new rendering or even just an effective cleaning.

• Power washing a brick facade can remove unsightly natural matter and stains that build up over time, making the house look more pristine and increasing kerbside value. 

• High-quality masonry or multi-surface paint is applied, with an aesthetically pleasing colour scheme that matches the architectural style and more. 

• Rendering is an alternative to painting that involves applying a new layer of material, such as sand or cement, to the home’s exterior walls, providing a modern finish and covering up degraded surfaces.

These three directions can have profound benefits, but it is worth noting that rendering can be significantly more expensive. 

New windows

Replacing your old windows with better, double or triple-glazed windows can drastically improve your home’s U-values and security. This does take some investment, but the reduction of heat loss will improve thermal efficiency and reduce energy consumption significantly over time. 

Landscaping and hardscaping solutions

Finally, you can look beyond the house itself. Think about enhancing your front garden with additional planting, a well-kept lawn and nicely trimmed hedges. Similarly, you could invest in a new driveway, a paved path or even a front patio area to further enhance your kerbside appeal. 

If you’re trying to elevate your home’s value and generally make it a nice place to live, why not start with exterior renovations? Let your neighbours judge the family book by its cover!