As the warm weather approaches, you’re probably going to want to enjoy the outdoors: fresh air, vitamin D through sunshine, and the smell of spring flowers. One of the best ways to enjoy such naturalness is by building a deck. There are several ways a deck improves your home. Here are five of the many benefits of adding a deck space to your house.
1. A Deck Adds Value
Usually, a deck adds value to your home as a percentage of what you spent on the deck. The mean benefit in the U.S. is 44%, meaning that if you spent $10,000 on a new deck, then your home’s value would increase by $4,400. Of course, those numbers aren’t absolute, but they give you a general idea of how a deck will increase the value of your home.
2. You Can Entertain
Dust off the barbecue, get something tasty to grill, put something cold into a cooler, and have some friends over for a great time. You can even add an outdoor television to catch the latest game, enjoy movie night, or show funny home videos. When the weather turns bad, if you have an awning, then you can still have fun on your deck with friends and/or family.
3. You Don’t Need Additional Indoor Renovations
Adding a deck to your home is a single renovation that saves you overall time and money over redoing the interior of your home. In addition to a place to entertain, any part of your deck that is enclosed counts as extra living space for your home. One thing that you can do to get the best of both worlds is to make part of your deck into an enclosed sunroom and leave part of the deck open to the sky.
4. Decks Are Highly Customizable
Decks aren’t just pressure-treated planks with a railing anymore. A deck could have a fire pit built into it. There could be a gas line added so that you can have “barbecue on demand” without needing to fill a heavy propane bottle. You could incorporate plants, which could include vegetables. It might even include a grapevine for eventual wine-making!
5. They’re Multipurpose
Let’s say that you and your family are quite physically active. You can have storage built into your deck and keep your bats, balls, mitts, badminton nets, rackets, Frisbees, Hacky-Sacks, and all manner of other sports equipment in there. You could include a chilled wine cabinet inside the deck construction, too, for those impromptu “cheese-and-crackers parties.” If you make your deck big enough, then you might even think about installing a pool as part of it.
From creating a family-friendly space to entertain to making room for a pool or a wine cabinet, a deck creates a fantastic space that both enriches your quality of life and increases the value of your home. Building one requires exquisite planning and meticulous diagramming. Conscientious professionals will be more than able to help you with those things and then build you the deck of your dreams.
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