We've been in our house for 14 years now. I'm not much of a home improver, but we've done a few things over the years. You know, put up shelves, paint a room, put down tile, that sort of thing. Two really stand out.
1. We put a small, 4-gallon water heater under the kitchen sink. The main water heater is in the garage, a long ways away. It took forever to get hot water in the kitchen for washing dishes or anything. Now it almost immediate. We don't have to run the water to get it hot for the dishwasher any more, either. Less than $200, and we should have done it years earlier.
2. After my experience with the gunshots in the alley last week, I was talking to the sergeant in charge of our area. He said they had had a number of burglaries in the area, all by kicking in the back door. He said everyone should get an alarm (we've had one forever), and he recommended a storm door on the back door. We went and got a storm door and installed it over the weekend. We had actually talked about it long ago, because our back door is almost completely glass. Now, when the storm door is locked, it's very difficult to get at it.
So...what home improvements have you done, and what were the best ones?
1. We put a small, 4-gallon water heater under the kitchen sink. The main water heater is in the garage, a long ways away. It took forever to get hot water in the kitchen for washing dishes or anything. Now it almost immediate. We don't have to run the water to get it hot for the dishwasher any more, either. Less than $200, and we should have done it years earlier.
2. After my experience with the gunshots in the alley last week, I was talking to the sergeant in charge of our area. He said they had had a number of burglaries in the area, all by kicking in the back door. He said everyone should get an alarm (we've had one forever), and he recommended a storm door on the back door. We went and got a storm door and installed it over the weekend. We had actually talked about it long ago, because our back door is almost completely glass. Now, when the storm door is locked, it's very difficult to get at it.
So...what home improvements have you done, and what were the best ones?