What Type of Deck Adds The Most Value to Your Home?

Let’s face it, as a homeowner, there’s prob­ably going to be a time when you’ll put your house on the mar­ket. When that time comes, you’ll want to make sure you’re get­ting your bang for the buck. With the prop­erty mar­ket­ing being in a con­stant state of fluc­tu­ation, how­ever, you’ve got plenty of com­pet­i­tion – espe­cially when hous­ing prices drop and lots of homes go up for sale.

How do you make sure that you’ve got the upper hand? Well, you’ve got to start off by mak­ing your home more attract­ive to pro­spect­ive buy­ers. Once you’ve got that nailed, it can make a real dif­fer­ence to the value of your home – we’re talk­ing thou­sands of dollars.

A great way to add some value to your home is the addi­tion of a deck. While a plain and simple deck can add value, let’s go one step fur­ther and take a look at types of decks that you can build that’ll really set you apart from the com­pet­i­tion. After you’ve decided what deck you’re going to build, you can then zoom in on the nitty gritty details like the type of deck foot­ings, deck rail­ings, deck boards, etc. that you’d want.

The “Resort Style” Deck

After a long week of work, most of us just want to head home and relax dur­ing the week­end. While relax­a­tion may be on the cards, the weather may not always cooperate with your plans. As you pre­pare to lounge in the gar­dens, rain or intense sun­shine could end up thwart­ing your plans. That’s where the Gazebo Deck comes in.

Essen­tially, the Gazebo Deck is a roofed struc­ture that’s open all around. It can be erec­ted over its own deck­ing, and can help provide shade, shel­ter from the rain, a place to rest and more. For lar­ger prop­er­ties, homeown­ers can even build gazebos fur­ther away from their home, such as next to a lake or a river.

Add in some com­fort­able patio seat­ing or benches, and you’ve got a deck that’ll make you feel like you’ve been trans­por­ted to a resort.

Estim­ated added value: $25,000 — $35,000

Shed Deck

If you don’t have much space in your home and you’re not able to ded­ic­ate an area to build­ing a new deck, what about con­sid­er­ing a shed deck?

Even though a shed deck is basic­ally just an exten­ded area from your shed, it looks much more aes­thet­ic­ally pleas­ing than hav­ing the shed on its own.

There’s so much that you can do with this exten­ded area and some ideas include:

• Dec­or­at­ing it with some flora and fauna for an earth­ier look
• Put­ting out some com­fort­able lounge chairs and turn­ing it into a nice little out­door area
• Turn it into a play area for the little ones

Estim­ated added value: $30,000 — $40,000

Man Cave

A man cave isn’t just for men, even though the term’s coined that way. It’s all about con­vert­ing your deck into an ulti­mate sanc­tu­ary. While the con­struc­tion of your deck needs to be solid, some­times it’s all about how you end up design­ing and present­ing your deck.

Fill the space with whatever suits your fancy, and feel free to get cre­at­ive and design a space that rep­res­ents you. Theme it how­ever you’d like, but some lounge chairs would be nice. If you’ve got the space, you can even add a pool table, out­door Jac­uzzi and more.

Estim­ated added value: $20,000 — $25,000

Pool Deck

When it comes to a pool deck, it’s basic­ally the imme­di­ate area around your pool where you can place lounge chairs, tables, and other pool furniture.

Even though plenty of homes have pool decks, it’s really about how you design and build your pool deck, and what type of mater­i­als you use. The area that you cre­ate should be both styl­ish, non-slip, well-constructed and inviting.

Some factors that you should con­sider when build­ing your pool deck include:

• Pick­ing your deck mater­ial based on the cli­mate and locale
• Going for a lighter col­our instead of a darker one
• Mak­ing sure it’s slip-resistant
• Choos­ing the type of wood carefully
• Lay­ing a strong foundation

This poolside deck helped 38 Oklahoma Avenue, Toongab­bie sell for $1,065,000.

Estim­ated added value: $20,000 — $30,000

Why Decks Pay Off

Installing a deck is def­in­itely worth­while in the long run. There are many reas­ons why people find decks appeal­ing, from increas­ing the home’s usable space to giv­ing indi­vidu­als more open space to gather and more.

If every­one else in the neigh­bour­hood has a deck and you don’t, you’ll cer­tainly be hurt­ing your resale value. Don’t just install a deck for the sake of it, though; it’s import­ant to take a look at the above, and con­sider what type of deck would be adding the most value to your home.

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