Wood You Like - Natural Wooden Flooring

Yes – that’s right.  You can add as much as 15%, maybe more, to the value of your home in under a week – provided you get your skates on. And this is not ‘hype’ or a trick – this information comes from various sources and surveys across the nation – from home owners, people selling their homes, people buying homes, estate agents, and mortgage companies too.

Abbey National recently asked 100 Estate Agents “which home improvements” do they consider “add most to the value of a home?”  What was surprising is that it’s not the large projects like extensions or expensive kitchens that add the most value – in fact, they said, often these tend to lose money - as much as 50% on their cost! 

No, what does increases value has more to do with adding ‘lifestyle’ features that provide the greatest return when it comes to valuing a house.

They say that “for every £1,000 spent on ‘lifestyle’ features
you can reckon on adding more than £3,500
to the value of your home”

Why?  Because most people envy, and like to buy into, those signals of ‘success’ so effortlessly portrayed by lifestyle ‘visuals’. 

Features, such as wooden flooring - which is light and hygienic, provides a sense of space and elegance, wonderfully easy to keep clean and dust free, and exceptionally robust and long lasting – can make a huge difference to the value of your home.

And talking of wooden flooring, according to a recent study done by WoodCare, adding wooden features to your home will increase its value 5% - 15%, almost immediately..

“You achieve an instant positive effect by stripping down
and exposing the natural character of
wooden banisters, re-instating those genuine wooden doors
and, particularly, installing real wooden floors
(especially in the reception areas)”.

What’s more, when it comes to selling your house, it's not just that you can expect a higher price for your home, it’s also that houses with wooden floors actually sell much much faster!  Estate agents and their clients verify this - time after time.  And it has also been substantiated by Woodflooring.org in a recent national survey they organised amongst estate Agents- they testify that:

“90 % of estate agents said that houses with wooden flooring are more marketable, 58% agreed that homes with wooden floors sell for more money, and 46% agreed that homes with wooden floors sell more quickly than those without.”

A new wood floor is proven to add more value to your home than any other flooring option, including tile or wall-to-wall carpeting. And unlike other options, wooden floors not only maintain their value over the years, but effectively retain and improve their elegance and their beauty. And even in those rare cases they do begin to show any wear, they don't need to be replaced - wood flooring can be repaired without losing its value, or elegance, for a fraction of the cost of replacing other types of flooring.

It's no wonder therefore that 'natural wooden flooring’ appears so often in the advertisements of property developers, furniture retailers, and your estate agent – they are simply magnificent, and enhance any room, whatever the furnishing, and whether it’s a simple home or your beloved ‘palace’.

Wood flooring adds value to your home, quality wood floors installed in the most professional way will add even more – for many problem free years to come.
When buying from Wood You Like Ltd you can rest assured you will get the highest quality products and service, be it from our professional installers or our comprehensive installation guide based on the daily experience of our professional installers.