Nothing adds value to your home like stone pavers. Their natural elegant beauty adds a natural flair to any home that completely turns the look of it around. A stone paver driveway is the first thing a prospective buyer would see when they pull up to your home. Why stop there? If a stone paver driveway is impressive, what about the pathway leading up to the stone pavers around your front door and the steps that leads into the home? (If your home has steps) You would be surprised at how much difference the right stone pavers can make in the home’s value in the eyes of potential buyers.

First Impressions are Lasting Impressions

One of the biggest benefits of stone pavers is that they impress a potential buyer before they even see the inside of your home. Often, they add so much elegance and class to the outside of the home that the potential buyer has already made a purchasing decision before they enter your front door. Stone pavers can add thousands of dollars above and beyond their cost to your asking price and go a long way to selling the home for you.

Matching Stone Features add Beautiful Consistency

The creation of a stone pavers patio in your home’s backyard is another huge selling point, so much so that you may want to tour the entire outside of the home before allowing your visitors to enter. A stone patio with a built up stone boarder that creates a natural bench will turn heads and empty pockets in a hurry.

If your home has a garden, create a stone pavers pathway from the patio to the garden entrance and line the pathway with tiki torches. While this may seem as if you are showing off at this point, it also ensures that any doubts your potential buyers may have had have vanished.

Stone pavers around your swimming pool just make sense. Pavers are made from non-slip surfaces and make your pool area as safe as they can get. It also adds the element of beauty to your pool that plain concrete decking just does not possess. Keep your stone pavers uniform as far as style and color all the way around your home to create continuity and watch your property sell at the original asking price with no problems at all.

Practical and Economical

Another feature of stone pavers that make your home more attractive to potential buyers is their practicality and money saving properties. If pipes or lines under the ground need to be repaired or replaced or if there is damage to your property, the repairs can be affected by simply removing the pavers where the work is to be done and replacing them upon the completion of the work. If pavers are damaged, repair is as easy as replacing the individual paving stones. Keep extra stones in a shed to show the buyers.

Buyers Want to Know (They just can’t help it)

Be prepared to answer any of the dozens of questions that always come up about stone pavers when showing your home on the market. Point out the unique building points of your stone pavers.

v  Talk about how the pavers near the house, such as the patio are angled slightly downward and away from the home to ensure water does not drain into the foundation or basement.

v  Tell them how the sub-base or the bottom level of the excavation is compacted to 95% or more to prevent pockets of air. These air pockets, if left under the surface of the stone pavers could collapse and cause dips and breakage which is why your project was completely supervised by you to ensure no such occurrences.

v  Let them know that the sand used is specifically designed for use on top of the compacted sub-base and in the cracks of the stone pavers to help irrigation and prevent mold and weed growth.

v  When showing your property, it is important to explain to them why the stone pavers required very little maintenance. Make sure you have applied the sealant that gives the stone pavers a wet look that enhances their appearance. This same sealant also helps prevent weed growth in the loose sand between the paving stones. Knowing that little or no work is required to keep their stone pavers looking great and that they will not have to pull weeds all day, every day is a great selling point.

Why Sell Such a Beautiful Home?

All in all, your stone pavers will sell themselves. Adorning your home with a stone paver driveway that will last far longer than any other type of drive, as well as a stone pavers patio, walkways to the front and back doors, and beautiful stone pavers around the pool area ensures the increased value not only for their endurance and longevity, but for the sheer beauty of the stone pavers. This is especially true once you have applied the stone paver sealant that gives your stones a glossy wet look. By the time you are finished, you may not want to sell your home anymore.