Home Improvement Ideas

Here's an interesting fact. Americans spend 60% of their time in their own home. Knowing that it's easy to see why having a beautiful and well maintained home is so important. As the housing market stumbles, selling and moving to a new home is, in many cases, not an option. Do it yourself home improvement ideas however are a great way to make your current home into your dream home. The great thing about this is that not only will you enjoy your home more, you will also be adding value to your property. So when the time does come to sell, you will get more for it. There is however a catch. Do the wrong improvements and you may actually decrease your property value. You can also make it more difficult to sell. Some experts on the subject often tend to have different views as to which home improvements will cause you to lose money. Some of them include such things as laying new carpet to installing double glazing. Of course it probably depends on the carpet you pick. For instance