effective upgrades to transform the look of your home. They come from Fypon, manufacturer of molded architectural millwork. Trim out the windows with crossheads, keystones, molding or plinths. Add a decorative lamppost. Top off your home with a cupola. Choose from bell, pagoda or hipped copper roofs, with center options of louvers or glass. Replace a rotting wooden porch system with a weather-resistant structural balustrade system: porch posts, top and bottom rails, and balusters. Use PVC beaded board on the ceiling of a porch or sunroom and on the walls for wainscoting. Replace older, rotting wooden louvers with low-maintenance urethane louvers. Functional louvers have a noncorrosive fiberglass screen backing to keep insects out while allowing maximum airflow and ventilation to enter the attic. Add a brass kickplate and polish your door hardware. Flank your windows with easy-care preprimed urethane shutters solid, louvered or woodgrain in two-plank, three-plank or diagonal V styles that can be painted or stained. Add decorative, weather-resistant columns in fluted square, serpentine, flat square and plain panel square styles. Install a door surround. Start with fluted pilasters on either side, then top the door with a decorative pediment a ram's-head, sunburst, a corn or peaked-cap style. - St. Petersburg Times __
