Improving and updating your home is something that many a home owner will become very interested over the course of time. After all, homes can fall into disrepair and appliances can become less than stellar in their usage and capacity over the course of time. Even home decor can become outdated, making the home in question feel less than inviting – and less than something that the home owners find themselves to be proud of.
In fact, the average interior designer will recommend that a home should be updated – at least in terms of its decor – at least once for every decade that passes, even if only small changes are made. Ideally, the decor of a home will actually be updated once every five years, though somewhere in between the two is where most homes will fall. Updating this decor – and often the homes in general – can be ideal not only for the people living there, but for the process of selling the home as well, should this be something that ever comes to pass. After all, a recently updated home is likely to sell far more quickly – and likely for considerably more money, at that – than a home that has been left in its original state, no matter what that might be.
For instance, homes with hardwood flooring throughout will often sell for more money than home without, as more than half of all current prospective home buyers (around 54% of them, to be just a little bit more exact) actually are willing to pay considerably more for a home with hardwood flooring as opposed to another type of flooring. After all, hardwood floors are incredibly high quality, able to last for centuries when well cared for and kept free from the elements.
Hardwood can be implemented in other areas of the home as well, such as in wood paneling. As the rustic scheme of design has held popular over the course of recent years, wood paneling has as well. Wood paneling can add a certain element of coziness to any room, and can add an element of built in decor as well, making a space even easier to decorate than ever before.
But wood paneling can certainly be expensive. After all, it takes the typical hardwood tree at least 20 years – a full two decades – before fully becoming matured, and some hardwood trees requires as many as 60 years of growth before reaching this point. Therefore, hardwood, though high in quality, can be quite high in price as well. And using so much hardwood can certainly be less than environmentally friendly as well, especially when you look at the rates of deforestation all throughout the world as we know it. For while forest land current covers more than one quarter of this planet, this is not likely to remain the case if we keep cutting down trees at the same rate that we are today.
Fortunately, viable alternatives exist for those who very much want the look of wood paneling – but without the cost or environmental impact of using real hardwood. Self adhering wall planks can provide a great option for such people, as self adhering wall planks are becoming more and more popular as time passes on. In addition to these self adhering wall planks, peel and stick paneling is also common, as are stick on shiplap planks.
Self adhering wall planks will be considerably less expensive than other types of wood paneling, and these self adhering wall planks will be easy to be install and take off as well. For those who don’t own their own homes, self adhering wall planks can help them to feel a little bit more homey and like their own as much as is possible. Of course, self adhering wall planks can use real wood, but these self adhering wall planks will often still use less wood than real wood paneling. For many people, this makes self adhering wall planks and other types of stick on wood paneling decor a great choice for a wide variety of reasons, none of which should be discounted.