Your Garage Door Might be the Most Important Part of Your Home’s Curb Appeal

It’s not often that your garage door will be included in any discussion about your home’s curb appeal. Curb appeal is the attractiveness of your home when viewed from the street in front of it. And garage doors are way down the lists of most people’s ideas of what affects curb appeal.

The Importance of Curb Appeal

Despite its popularity in real estate listings, the importance of curb appeal is most likely underestimated by homeowners and real estate agents alike. More than one study tells us that buyers can make a decision to buy within 30 seconds of seeing a home.

That doesn’t mean they end up buying the home. Other parts of the home can turn the buying decision into ‘let’s move along’. On the other hand, if no other part of the home changes their mind, then a buyer will have made a decision to buy based initially on the curb appeal of the home.

How Does Your Garage Door Affect Curb Appeal

We’ve told you before that garage doors can account for one-third of the appearance of your home. Yet, if you asked homeowners, they will much sooner list things like ‘windows’, ‘landscaping’, or ‘entry doors’ as curb appeal’s greatest influences.

But how can you ignore something that accounts for such a large part of the look of your home?

It turns out you can’t ignore your garage door. Garage doors offer the best return on investment.

Last summer, U.S. News & World Report published ‘10 Home Renovations With the Best Return on Investment’. In it, they listed the home renovations that offered the best return for the investment, based on how much the improvement increased resale value. The research was conducted and originally published by Remodeling Magazine.

Second on their list was ‘New Garage Door’. According to the article, “when it comes to what it considers upscale renovations, Remodeling Magazine says replacing the garage door offers the best return on investment.”

So now, instead of ‘installing a new garage door’, you can make a great ‘investment in a new garage door’, an investment with the best ROI! Call us at Markham Garage Doors.