Last year my wife and I decided that it was time to buy a home. We were getting tired of paying rent and another person’s mortgage.

When we started to look for our ideal home, we came across a lot of overpriced older homes in the area we wanted to live in. Our other option was to look for a piece of land and build our dream home.

That’s what we decided to do. This was exciting for both of us as we got to be the architects and design our dream home. With the help of a qualified builder, that is certainly a possibility.

When it came to heading the home, my wife wanted a nice natural gas fireplace. But that wasn’t going to heat the whole home and it was going to be expensive. She then suggested we use baseboards throughout the rest of the home to provide the heat. Sure that would be cheaper at the beginning but it would be expensive in the long run since our home was going to be pretty big.

That’s when I suggested we look at heat pumps as an alternative to baseboards and a natural gas fireplace. A heat pump would also use its reverse acting cycle to cool our home in the summer months. The temperatures don’t get super hot during our summers but it can cause some uncomfortable days and nights.

The heat pump would cost a bit more upfront but the energy used to power them was going to be less than the natural gas and baseboards.

My wife was on board. But she still wanted a fireplace as a design piece for the home.

Our general contractor suggested he build the fireplace but use fake wood and put glass over the front. That worked for both her and I and we did just that.

It’s now April and a full winter after leaving in our new home, I can say that the heat pump was a great idea. I’ve gone over all of the energy bills and operational costs where a big more than having a natural gas fireplace and baseboards.

In the long run, we’ll recoup that though as we now know how to operate the heat pump. With summer around the corner, I’m looking forward to being able to sleep at nights thanks to the heat pump extracting the heat from the home and pushing it outside.

I’m sure you’ll agree that sleeping in the summer is tough. An air conditioner is a good option but it’s inside the room and also very noisy. A heat pump is staged outside the home and very, very quiet.

So if you’re building a new home, be sure to look into buying a heat pump to cool and heat your home like we did.

I was at a networking group yesterday where I met a guy who does home staging for relators selling homes. He started talking about ways relators and home sellers create more appeal for the interior of the home.

Sometimes they’ll bring in really high-end furniture to make the home look more desirable. Which makes sense. People want to feel like they are in an expensive home and having high end furnishings can do that. But what a pain!

I said there has to be a better way. Something less time consuming like moving furniture in and out of the house. He did say that doing window treatments can really make the home look extravagant.

Things like custom draperies can make a home look very elegant. This helps if your home is higher priced, as people like to see crown moldings and other nice finishing’s.

I mentioned to him that I had some friends who were about to sell a home. They weren’t going to be able to afford his services. He understood that as he tends to work with realtors selling homes in the $900 000 range.

Since I wanted to help my friends I asked him where we could buy things like custom draperies in Victoria. He told me about Rodco Interiors and the fact that they had so many things that could dress up their windows to increase the appeal of their home.

I thanked him for his advice and told him I’d pay him back down the road. He wasn’t too worried.

The next day me and my friends hoped down to Rodco Interiors and picked out some draperies and even some motorized blinds. It would be money well spent as they could either sell the home with them, or take them to their new home.

No matter the case, they were providing more value and appeal to their home by installing draperies and motorized blinds.

So if your looking to do the same, invest in any sort of window treatments and enjoy selling your house with ease!

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