How to Make Your Home Warm and Cosy for Winter
Winter is a beautiful and often underappreciated season, one in which you feel more in touch with the space in your home. When you’re cooped up inside and watching the patter of rain on your windows, you want to feel safe and warm, assured that the cold will stay out there while you recline indoors.
Focusing on making some house alterations before winter really hits will enhance comfort, and add to the value of your home down the line. Prepare yourself and your living space for winter with some of these additions.
Update Your Heating System
There’s never a better time to take another look at your internal heating system than when winter is on the horizon. Installing systems to keep your family warm is a worthwhile investment, and adds a lot of value to your home. A few great ways to invest in heating include:
Central heating. Using modern technology, you can hold all of the controls for your home’s temperature with in the palm of your hand. Heat specific zones, or let the system heat your entire home, it’s your choice, and the one-off installation cost is well worth the long-term payoff.
A heat pump. Heat pumps are a more cost-effective option, because you can choose to just install them in living spaces. They’re easily controlled and great for staying cosy in wintertime.
Add a Three-Season Room
There are few things more exciting to an architectural designer than the chance to create a three-season room. During a Kiwi winter, most people don’t feel like going outside because of the rain. That said, there’s a lot to appreciate about the outdoors in the colder months, and if you can keep the indoor-outdoor flow of your home going, you can bring all the cosiness of winter inside, with none of the cold.
Adding a three-season room to your home is a great way to do this! You’re automatically increasing your home’s year-round value, and the room is designed to work well in no matter the season. It will help you enjoy a view of the outdoors with no discomfort or cold, and with large bay windows, large folding doors, or a conservatory-esque construction you can capture that coveted indoor-outdoor flow.
Double-Glaze Your Windows
Whether you retrofit your existing windows or install new units, double-glazing really changes the game when it comes to making your house cosy in the cold months. Double glazing puts two panes of glass in one frame, and separates them with a layer of inert gas, preventing heat from making its way through the windows.
In the winter, the gains are invaluable! You don’t need to worry about how much heat is escaping out of your windows, and therefore how much money you might be losing on heating. This can also be a huge selling point later on, as many homes in NZ are still behind the curve when it comes to double-glazing.
Invest in your home for the coming winter.
There’s no better time to invest in our architectural services than now. It’s important that you work with someone who knows what they’re doing, so you can get the most out of your budget, while transforming your home to suit your vision.
At Gubb Design, we focus on design-based architectural work. Using our expertise in alterations and additions, we can give your home a new lease on life. Take the chance to work with one of the most trusted residential architects in Auckland. Reach out today!
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