COLUMBUS, GA – It’s Spring and it’s a great time to make some home improvements while saving money at the same time.  

Before you spend your hard earned cash on sprucing up, we have some ideas on how to do some inexpensive fix-ups and do-it-yourself projects. 

Home Improvement Expert Tom Kraeutler with “The Money Pit” has some ideas.  

 “It’s called Tribeca Oak and it’s a special staining process called Reactive Staining so what it does is react with the natural tan in the wood and it gives each board its own tone, its own personality and when you put those side by side on the floor, it looks amazing and it’s a really cool pattern and each one is like its own work of art and beyond the floor you can also uses it as accent walls.  You’ll see a lot of decorators using these as accent walls.”

Another idea includes evaluating your air conditioning unit to make sure it’s tuned up and energy efficient.

Tom also recommends purchasing a portable generator in case you lose power at home.

Kraeutler says one way to save money on projects is by doing it yourself.

“You need to work within your ability and not outside of it.  There’s a lot of things DIY’ers can do.  There’s more education resources, online and with videos than ever before but projects that involve for example, electricity or plumbing, those are the projects that can have serious consequences if you do them wrong.  Do the things your comfortable with with and work within that ability.  Just try a project, because if you start small, build up your skills, build up your confidence and pretty soon you’ll be building your own deck.”  

When your project doesn’t include an expert, help may be no farther than down the hall.

“I loved when my kids were growing up and having them involved in a project and sometimes it’s not necessarily doing the project you’re doing, but it’s working side by side you know?  And when my boys were young, they were happy to sit alongside projects I was doing and I would give them a can of nails and a box of wood and they would tap, tap, tap in that wood all day and would feel like they’re doing something.”  

By planning ahead, your home improvement projects will not only change the way you view your home,
they can also make for a stronger family bond.