The 6 Best Time-Tested Remodeling Projects — and the Worst

A new steel front door tops the list of home improvement projects 

Although kitchens and bathrooms always steal the spotlight in a home remodel, they aren’t necessarily the ones that have the highest return on investment when you sell your home.

Since 2002, trade magazine for contractors and builders “Remodeling” has been tracking how much it costs to do common home improvement projects — and then calculating how much of that cost is recovered when the home sells.

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The Highest ROI: Replacing Your Front Door

Year in and year out, no single project has provided such a healthy return on your home improvement dollar as a new front door. A replacement steel door averaged a 98% return on investment

2.  New Siding

3.  Minor Kitchen Remodel

4.  Wood Deck Addition

5.  Attic Bedroom Remodel

6.  Garage Door Replacement

Projects That Are Trending Downward:

              The home office             Why aren’t home office remodels as popular as they were 10 years ago?                Probably because we’ve come to rely less on dedicated office space and more on mobile hardware that lets us conduct business from any room in the house.  Cloud storage puts documents a click away — not in a file cabinet — and our smartphones keep us connected 24/7, not just when we’re in the office.

                  Sunroom additions    

Another project, sunroom additions, appears to have gone the way of sunken living rooms and parlors. They used to be fashionable, but today we know sunroom additions are difficult to heat and cool, and, at $300 to $400 per square foot, they’re expensive to construct.

You’ll get almost the same benefits — and more fresh air — with a much cheaper to build deck or patio.

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