You may love your home, but possibly your family is expanding and you may realize that you've outgrown your present home. When this happens, it can also be that before you can purchase a new home you have to sell the one your in. You may find when you put your present home up for sale, that it may sit for months on the market and that you are getting no offers through your realtor. In a situation like this you may need to spruce the place up to get buyers interested. That means it's time for some home improvements. A good way to do it is to elevate the homes "curb appeal."
A wonderful and effective home improvement that you can perform to really enhance the visual appeal of a home is to replace old drab front windows with a new bay window. When you do decide to bring up your homes value with a beautiful bay window there are a few things that you as a homeowner need to know.
Visual Aesthetics
When you have a contractor install and integrate a bay window into your home it will be a cut above the rest. With a new bay window flowing into your homes pre-existing architecture you will find that your home has it's own unique and appealing look. A bay window is a good way to be a step above the other houses in a neighborhood.
Enhanced Natural Lighting
Once installed a bay will give the room a more natural light. Natural lighting will also add more texture and subtlety to the room in which the window has been installed. As an added benefit it also provides a better view of your property and the vistas beyond. The more appealing view and enhanced lighting are a benefit themselves even without the added increase to your homes value.
Style, Purpose and Construction
With the installation of your new bay window, you not only add a new creative style to the front of your home, but inside you can also add more living space if the window has a seating area built into the overall window design. When you work with your contractor or designer for this window replacement, you have to be very conscious of choosing a window style that will fit with the overall architecture of your home. While you want that curb appeal, you don't want to have it provided through shock value, because it's almost certain that will just turn away prospective buyers. Different styles of bow windows include the double hung and casement style windows. Your window fixture can be constructed around either of these design styles. Bay windows are constructed using materials such as wood or vinyl, with the exterior finishes including either what is called a wood that is clad in vinyl or aluminum, a primed wood finish or just regular vinyl.
The final item of consideration is the size of the window itself. You will want to be mindful of the costs associated with the installation of a bay window whether the same size as your current windows or larger. If you do go larger, the bay window will need a larger opening and a new header, which will be large enough to house that larger window. This will have an effect on the overall cost of this window replacement project.
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