How A Thousand-Dollar Makeover Can Make A Home Look like A Million Bucks

(HIT) - Whether homeowners dream about enjoying their home for the next 20 years or selling it in 2, adding innovative exterior décor products delivers valuable character to help turn those dreams into reality.

With an investment of less than $1,000, a facelift with vinyl decorative solutions can spice up curb appeal and dramatically transform a home’s façade. Windows, doors, gables and fascia can all be enhanced with vibrant products from Mid-America Siding Components® that include shutters, window headers, sunbursts, door surrounds, dentil trim, decorative gable vents and more. With these infusions of color and dimension, homes become more welcoming, exuding homeowner care and pride.

Within a materials budget of just $1,000, Mid-America Siding Components can reinvent a home’s style and maximize curb appeal.

While installing these exterior accents is accomplished in a matter of hours, their beauty benefits last for decades. With Mid-America’s SolidThru™ color technology and limited lifetime warranty, no painting, staining or sealing are ever required.

The vinyl shutters from Mid-America offer virtually limitless ways to bring excitement, and make a colorful starting point for one of these affordable multi-faceted makeovers. Whether shutters are for two windows or a set of five, the difference with charismatic color and depth is dramatic. Standard shutter styles include Cathedral Open Louver, Williamsburg Raised Panel, and spaced or joined Board-N-Batten Shutters. Customizable louvered shutters allow offset mullions, extra panels and optional shutter tops for added elegance. Available decorative S-hooks can further distinguish with a romantic touch.

Shutters can combine with sunbursts or window headers to frame a window with robust style. Mid-America’s elliptical and half-round sunbursts bring a brighter feel, while sunburst kits pair half-round designs with either flat-panel or classic-dentil headers for added flair.

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The timeless style of window headers projects an image of stately refinement. For a front door, a header is combined with twin pilasters to create a door surround conveying subtle strength. The pilasters’ crisp vertical lines deliver a grand entryway feel. The eye-pleasing dimension of a door surround can also be used to uniquely frame a garage door.

For an expressive combination, a door surround can be paired with the lively contrast of specialty siding shapes. Mid-America’s popular Round specialty shapes provide textured accents for gables and contrasting color around a home’s second story. Five other shapes are offered in white, including Half Cove and Mitered Corner profiles, lending contrast to shingle-style siding or combining with colorful Round shapes for uniquely elaborate exteriors.

Dentil trim is another accent available for upper exteriors, delivering timeless elegance and immediate architectural distinction. Mid-America’s Square Tooth and Scalloped Tooth Dentil Trim create substance all the way around a home with harmonious interplays of light and shadow.

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Decorative Gable Vents (non-functional) are simple yet impactful.  Combining with shutters, window headers or other accents, they help unify a home’s appearance. Available in Round, Octagon, Square and Rectangle profiles, these ornaments can complement or contrast existing trim or siding.

Smaller details also do their part to generate serenity and a more finished look. Cost-effective, color-coordinated mount blocks and vents deliver crisper, cleaner appearances for light fixtures, electrical outlets, exhaust vents and more. Mid-America’s blocks and vents come in the industry’s widest color spectrum, matching vinyl and fiber cement siding makers’ color availability. With innovative trim rings that snap on in a flash, they hide imperfections like heavy caulking and unseemly cut ends.

Mid-America Siding Components enhance various architecture styles and can be directly installed on exteriors ranging from brick, fiber cement and vinyl to wood, stone veneer and stucco. From modest homes to those in luxurious neighborhoods, a selection of these decorative accents can reinvent a home’s exterior with captivating new appeal.

Mid-America Siding Components is a division of The Tapco Group®, a U.S. Green Building Council member. For more information, visit www.MidAmericaComponents.com or call 800-521-8486.  For more great ideas to enhance your home, find The Tapco Group ® on Facebook at facebook.com/TapcoGroup, Twitter at twitter.com/tapcogroup and on YouTube at youtube.com/thetapcogroup.

The Tapco Group is the building industry’s leading provider of easy to install, premium innovative interior and exterior products. Serving the building industry since 1961, Tapco specializes in the manufacturing of stone veneer, roofing, siding, trim, tool systems, egress systems and siding components. The products combine versatile application, durability, vast color palettes and uncommon authenticity to exceed the expectations of contractors and homeowners. Tapco delivers Innovation Born from Original Thinking™.

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