9 Affordable Tech Upgrades to Increase Your Home’s Value
As technology advances by the day, more and more amazing quality of life upgrades to your home are getting more affordable. These devices should also increase the overall value of your home. Here are some of the stand out upgrades that every modern home should have.
Smart Plugs
Smart plugs are some of the most cost-effective ways to upgrade nearly anything you can plug into an outlet to a smart device. You can use an app on your phone to do a variety of things, including turning the device on or off or even scheduling it to come on at a certain time, like making coffee from bed.
Smart Lights
While smart outlets will upgrade all of your appliances, lighting will be limited to things such as lamps. With smart bulbs, the light socket doesn’t have to be tampered with and just like smart plugs, these lights can be scheduled, turned on and off from your phone and some even have RGB for any color that suits the mood!
Security Systems
Security systems can be a driving factor in what bumps up a home’s value. Some potential homeowners have security in mind when they purchase a new property. An alarm system and a panic button connected to a security company is an amazing thing for a home to have, but if budget is in mind, then just an alarm system and cameras connected to a monitor in the home can also be a substantial upgrade over having no security at all.
Thermostats
Thermostats are wonderful devices that will control the temperature in your home. Most American homes have them, but if yours doesn’t, then consider installing one; it should bump up the value of your home. You could even get fancy and install a smart thermostat to go with the other smart devices on this list.
Electronic Doorbell
Modern doorbells mean that owners don’t have to get up and see who’s at the door. Some American homes already have electronic doorbells complete with a camera that records and can send your voice through a speaker to any unexpected guest. This doubles as a safety feature, and you can even answer the doorbell when you aren’t home!
Battery Backups
Battery backups can be installed into your home to ensure that a power outage doesn’t interupt anything from important work to leisure time infront of the T.V. These battery backups can be charged while the power is on and depending on the size of the batteries, can keep a home powered for hours after a power cut.
Solar Panels
While large-scale solar panels aren’t the most most affordable upgrades to a home, smaller panels can be installed that can charge your battery backup, just not as efficiently as an entire roof of panels. These affordable compromises lay the groundwork for a bigger upgrade down the line.
Smart Locks
Traditional locks have served us for hundreds of years, but smart locks make a good first impression when prospective homeowners look at the property. Much like smart devices, smart locks mean you can lock your front door remotely if you think you forgot to when you went out or if you hear a bump in the night.
Automated Blinds
Automated Blinds are a simple yet amazing purchase that makes home life just that much more convenient. They can be set to a timer so you’ll never have to open them each morning and close them when it gets dark. Some can also be remotely activated.