10 ways to update your home on a budget

Many older New England homes were built without bathrooms on each floor or without master baths. If that’s your situation, carving out space for an additional bath might be the best home improvement you’ll ever make. It’s true that you will make only 53.3 percent of your investment back when you go to sell, according to the trade magazine Remodeling’s 2010-11 Cost vs. Value Report. (cont.) But, as Storey notes about his own project, “it’s going to vastly improve the quality of my life at home.” Storey recently added a master bath and says he’ll never regret it.