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Types of Home Improvement Projects
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Need a project to do in your spare time? How about fix up the house! Here is a list of some of the home improvement projects you can do:
| | Wallpapering and painting walls or installing wood paneling. |
| | Adding new flooring such as carpets, tiling, linoleum, wood flooring, or solid hardwood flooring. |
| | Upgrading cabinets, fixtures, and sinks in the kitchen and bathroom. |
| | Repairing or increasing the capacity of plumbing and electrical systems. |
| | Upgrading heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC) |
| | Roof tear-off and replacement. |
| | Concrete and masonry repairs to the foundation and chimney. |
| | Waterproofing basements. |
| | Soundproofing rooms, especially bedrooms and baths. |
| | Replacing siding and windows, both as a cosmetic improvement and as a way to save energy. |
| | Turning marginal areas into livable spaces such as turning basements into recrooms or attics into spare bedrooms. |
| | Reducing utility costs with: |
| | Energy-efficient insulation, windows, and lighting. |
| | Renewable energy self sufficiency with biomass pellet stoves, wood-burning stoves, solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal exchange heat pumps (see autonomous building) |
| | Extending one's house with rooms added to the side of one's home or, sometimes, extra levels to the original roof. |
| | Improving the backyard with sliding doors, wooden patio decks, patio gardens, jacuzzis, swimming pools, and fencing. |
| | Emergency preparedness safety measures such as: |
| | Home fire and burglar alarm systems. |
| | Security doors, windows, and shutters. |
| | Storm cellars as protection from tornados and hurricanes. |
| | Bombshelters especially during the 1950s as protection from nuclear war |
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