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Getting too Personal with Home Improvement

Posted on August 3, 2010
Filed Under Home Improvement |

You love flamingos. You have a collection of flamingo figurines. You have framed prints of the pink birds. You read about them. Everyone who knows you thinks of you as ?the flamingo guy?.

That?s a strange eccentricity, but you aren?t really doing any damage. Full speed ahead!

Until it comes to improving your home, anyway. When you?re contemplating renovations, changes or additions to your property it?s time to be someone other than ?the flamingo guy?.

You might think a series of hot pink stepping stones to the back door is a great idea. You might think that flamingo-shaped pool in the backyard would be nothing short of awesome. At some point, however, you might decide to move. You might be forced to sell the home. Future buyers won?t care about the flamingo photos on the walls, but they won?t care for the pink carpet or that swimming pool. And you can bet they?ll calculate the cost of removing those stones when they make an offer.

Personal expression is wonderful, but when it comes to home improvement you should balance that objective with creating a space that will have a more generalized appeal. Most people don?t stay in the same home for their entire lives and it is important to protect, if not to maximize, the value of your property.

That?s not going to happen when you put up pink aluminum siding.

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