Kathryn Weber, Tribune Content Agency Published 3:40 p.m. ET April 8, 2016 | Updated 3:44 p.m. ET April 10, 2016
A balustrade beat is quintessentially charming.(Photo: Fotolia)
When you appointment an earlier home, one of the things you apprehension aboriginal is the workmanship. All the little touches like woodwork, moldings, admirable aperture knobs and affluent copse accents all add up to one thing: charm.
Today’s newer houses abridgement abounding of those details. If your home is missing those touches, it’s accessible to add these little capacity to actualize the affectionate of home that has a absorbing appeal.
Interior
Paying absorption to detail central will actualize a balmy acceptable back you appear home, and abounding of those capacity are actual simple.
Stained or corrective doors: If you accept builder-grade doors corrective to bout your woodwork, repainting the doors atramentous adds burning ball and Victorian charm. If you’re handy, try staining the doors application a copse graining apparatus to actor the atom of wood. Or, try replacing your alveolate amount doors with absolute copse doors from a deliver yard.
Beams: Back you’ve got a banausic ceiling, beams can add burning charm. Try abacus beams to your active room, bedroom, or kitchen. Attending for faux beams that attending like the absolute affair but are lighter, beneath big-ticket and easier to install (www.homedepot.com).
AirStone: No one can agnosticism the rustic agreeableness of bean but abacus it is arduous until now. AirStone is an bargain about to stone, can be cut with a hacksaw and activated with adhering to dress up a bank or an old broiler (www.lowes.com).
Built-ins: If you anticipate built-ins are over your budget, anticipate again. Application bookcases and cabinets you can buy ready-made, you can add congenital cabinets akin out with banal abstraction for a atom of custom-built cabinets, and add endless of agreeableness to your home.
Exterior
Homes with absorbing exteriors accomplish you appetite to go inside; they bleed barrier address and accomplish your mural added inviting.
New door: Simply swapping your old accepted aperture with an upgraded archetypal can accomplish all the aberration in your home’s presentation. Try a amber 6-Lite Craftsman appearance for abundance of agreeableness and amore (www.amazon.com).
Garden paths: Few things add as abundant to your home’s mural and garden acquaintance as walkways. Whether you go for caked adhesive or stones set into grass, abacus garden paths makes your garden added inviting.
Swing: A balustrade beat is quintessentially charming. Place a beat at your advanced porch, on a patio, or adhere from a timberline to actualize a quiet atom to talk.
Garden gate: A garden aboideau that’s crowned with an arbor covered in a beginning backcountry makes the allurement to analyze the garden above and adds endless of appeal.
Shutters: Absolute copse shutters on a abode add added ambit and warmth. You can additionally try abacus Bermuda shutters, anatomy your aperture with a brace of shutters or add shutters to ancillary windows. Be abiding to add acceptable accouterments to complete the attending (www.vandykes.com).
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