Top Five Reasons to Purchase a Column

Value

Columns are debatably the best structural investment for your home. Dollar for dollar, they typically add straight value or better to a home’s market resale price. Regardless of the material and size, think of what you pay for the column as a direct investment into the value of your home. Adding columns often elevate the home to a whole new market, as they declare the home’s architectural significance and prestige.

Support

Though today a column is often used purely as decoration, the original function is support. Any column worth investing in is a load-bearing column. They can be constructed of stone, concrete, steel, fiberglass, wood, or resin. Many columns today are hollow inside to surround pre-existing support poles which are also load-bearing. Columns support roofs, balconies, porch and entry overhangs, for both the interior and exterior of a home.

Prestige

Since the beginning of structural design, columns have been an architectural mainstay in royal and monumental buildings from the Parthenon to the Lincoln Memorial. Columns are a symbol of strength and status signifying an accomplishment not to go unnoticed. Homes that stick out in your mind have columns.

Fortitude

In this world, civilizations come and go, buildings crumble, and centuries of history are lost in the sea of change. But one icon remains to tell a story, to remind the world of an empire; a column. The Roman Forum pictured here provides testimony to this truth. Remnants of civilizations are often just the pillars, but tell more of a story than expected. The materials, size, and number of columns in an area shed light on the area’s wealth, population, and social structure. When the rest has been destroyed, columns remain.

Timeless Beauty

Interior and exterior designs and trends come and go with the decades. What was popular in the 1970s might have trouble selling today. The one proven structural and decorative element that retains its appeal has been a column. Be it marble, oak, plaster, or fiberglass, columns are a timeless symbol of class, elegance, luxury, and magnificence.