Quality garage doors to increase curb appeal

What exactly is curb appeal? Well, curb appeal means exactly what it says, it's the appeal that your property conveys to passers buy, but particularly prosective buyers. Si in short, it is how good your home looks from the outside.

While most homeowners have pride of ownership and want their homes to look their best, curb appeal really has no monetary value unless you happen to be selling your house. Then you would be amazed at how important it can become.

Many homeowners will go out of their way, and frequently over budget, to keep their homes looking fantastic, including improvements to the landscape, keeping windows clean, making the entranceway look more inviting.

In addition to the monetary value that curb appeal can offer, there is always the pride aspect. Peaple like nice things, nice houses, nice clipped lawns and flower beds, but there is always one thing that seems to miss out, the garage doors!

Why are garage doors so important?

Let's be honest, any potential buyer will not want to live in your garage, so why would they care if the garage doors are not the best in the world? Well, think of the guy wearing the killer designer suit, with the perfectly trimmed hair and beard and the expensive manicure, you look down and his shoes are scuffed and dirty and suddenly the entire ensemble is ruined. It is exactly the same with a home.

You can have a gorgeous home, with a gorgeous garden, but if the garage doors look like they are ready to fall off their hinges, or just don't go with the rest of the property, the curb appeal will take a massive nosedive.

The term curb appeal was coined back in the day when home buyers literally drove around to look at homes. So the look of a home from the street, where the buyers would be in their cars, became the first hurdle to getting buyers interested in a home. Very often, buyers would not even get out of the car if they didn't like the look of the home from the car.

These days curb appeal is even more important. With the increase of online shopping for a home, you don't even have the luxury of presenting your house in person. People look at the photos on the estate agents website and on Google Streetview. If your garage doors are grim, they will be scuppering the chances of any prospective buyers coming round to take a closer look in person.

Garage doors can make or break a property

As a garage door can account for a pretty large portion of your homes appearance; possibly up to 35% of the visible area of your home from the street, it follows that every part of your property should look good, even the garage doors.

Yet despite that fact, very few people seem to worry about the state of their garage doors.

Fortunately this tide is turning. More and more properties are now matching garage doors with the entrance door to the house itself. This is a fantastic way of increasing the curb appeal of your property.

Home renovation cost versus return

Homeowners will think nothing of getting the landscapers in to sort the garden out. They will be more than happy to pay a good sum of money to have the house painted throughout and that old creaky and splintered banister replaced, but when it comes to the grotty looking garage doors, well, that can wait for another day!

A word of warning though, estate agents estimate that about forty percent of the highest return on investment when it comes to home renovation, is when it is done to the house exterior. In fact, homeowners could expect to get back as much as eighty five percent of their investment by installing a new garage door to their property.

So to increase the overall value and curb appeal of your property, think about paying a bit more attention to your garage doors, because you can be sure any potential buyers will be.